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One of the most overlooked aspects of the year just ended is the vindication of Chief Justice John Roberts -- a vindication that showed up as the national catastrophe known as ObamaCare got rolling. Roberts may have also doomed Hillary Clinton's chance to live in the White House again. The chief justice, an appointee of President George W. Bush and reputedly a constitutionalist in his jurisprudence, set his diabolical trap (diabolical to Democrats) on June 28, 2012, when he joined with the four liberal justices on the Supreme Court to uphold the constitutionality of ObamaCare. Conservatives and Republicans across the...

Intellectuals and the American Presidency Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? By Tevi Troy Rowman & Littlefield 280 pgs. $27.95 ISBN: 0-7425-0825-0 No president is an islandBy Jackson Murphyweb posted June 10, 2002Tevi Troy's new book Intellectuals and the American Presidency: Philosophers, Jesters, or Technicians? offers a readable and compelling account of the influence that intellectuals have upon presidents. The intellectual is a funny construct. They are not simply smart people or eggheads. As Troy explains it, the intellectual is not merely someone who combines in work and play the art of thinking. The intellectual is those things as well as someone...