Obamacare protests are growing ever louder. So are those who would squelch the protests.

President Obama makes concesssions to other countries even before he is asked, and without asking anything in return. In doing so, he makes the United States look weak and ineffective.

During the recently passed Jewish holidays I heard one rabbi after another speak of “social justice.” Uttered with remarkable sincerity, this expression and its meaning elude me. I recognize justice as the adjudication of competing positions in a court of law and in accordance with the Constitution and its precedents. But what is social justice?

I am persuaded, based on his performance, that President Obama is a man apart. He seems to equate power with arrogance; pride with willfulness and exceptionalism with dominance.

The American Revolution had one inspirational lament that echoed through the pages of our national history: “No taxation without representation.” In 2009 a new, arguably perverse, view of this proclamation is in vogue: “No taxation with representation.”