About: George Leef

It’s a lousy deal for many people, who will be compelled to spend lots more of their money on health insurance than they would choose to. So argues Avik Roy of the Manhattan Institute in this USA Today piece. Roy explains, “Instead of making health insurance cheaper so that more young people can afford it,Continue Reading

Trying to defend Obamacare as “regulation of commerce among the several states” is, as I argued yesterday, futile. In this piece, Trevor Burris contends that it’s just as futile to defend it under the Constitution’s Necessary and Proper clause. N and P only applies where Congress is authorized to legislate in the first place. StatutesContinue Reading

In today’s Pope Center Clarion Call, Duke Cheston writes about a political science course at NC State that is extraordinary…extraordinarily biased, that is. Rather than concentrate on the nuts and bolts of the American political system, the instructor serves the students a heaping plate full of tendentious readings that push statist notions. Bad form toContinue Reading

Our friend Max Borders (now located in Austin, TX) is working on a book. You can read about it — and his request for help in funding it — here.

In my American Thinker piece (below), I asked the question: If Obamacare is upheld, what next? In this piece, Cato’s Gene Healy offers a highly plausible answer — the health busybodies will use the power to mandate health insurance to dictate whatever rules they would like to impose regarding “healthy lifestyles.” If we must purchaseContinue Reading

On American Thinker today, I write about the sad divergence between the actual Constitution and “constitutional law” — which is to say, Supreme Court decisions that declare what justices think the Constitution should mean. The context, of course, is Obamacare. Defenders claim that “settled law” (that is, past Court decisions on the scope of theContinue Reading

Most of the attention given to the upcoming Supreme Court battle over Obamacare has focused on the constitutionality of the insurance mandate, but there is much more to abhor in that mountain of legislation/regulation, especially the Independent Payment Advisory Board. In this column, Colin Hanna explains why IPAB is such an affront to the ConstitutionContinue Reading

We often hear that the state universities have cut spending “to the bone,” but after reading this, you might wonder if all of the high-paid administrators are essential.