Toby Harnden believes Obama's Clinton makeover effort will fail.

Charles Krauthammer praises the new Constitutionalism.

Michael Lind blasts racist Southern Conservatives and all others who view the Constitution as a sacred document.

Ed Kilgore says liberals need to scale back their expectations, as he looks at the electoral landscape and concludes that the evil conservatives will be mostly free to destroy what is good about America at least until 2014.

Victor Davis Hanson writes about the new Sophists.

Paul Krugman says conservatives who praise Texas as the right model for state governance are wrong (0f course) because Texas, like almost every other state, is facing a budget deficit.

I have long believed that if the U.S. does suffer a decline and fall, like the British Empire, the Dutch Republic, and the Spanish Empire, all of which at one time or another dominated the globe economically and/or militarily, it would be for similar reasons. All overextended themselves beyond their ability to pay the bills. All were forced to renege on their international commitments and cut their military capabilities over time as their finances grew more and more precarious. This is happening now to us. As our politicians will be unable to cut the biggest and fastest growing part of our government spending commitments, the entitlement programs, they will be forced to cut defense spending. Count on it.