We're so much smarter now

Mark Steyn has a column on Justice Kennedy ("The Sultan of Swing") and this week's oral arguments on Obamacare.  I liked this:

"The United States is the only Western nation in which our rulers invoke the Constitution for the purpose of overriding it — or, at any rate, torturing its language beyond repair. Thus, in this week’s debate on whether Obamacare is merely the latest harmless evolution of the interstate-commerce clause, the most learned and highly remunerated jurists in the land chewed over the matter of whether a person, simply by virtue of being born, was participating in a “market.” Had George III shown up at the Constitutional Convention to advance that argument with a straight face, the framers would have tossed aside the quill feathers and reached for their muskets."

http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/294947/swingin-kennedy-mark-steyn