The Hill News

We haven’t heard from Bono and Lady Gaga yet, so it is too early to say, but in our age of second acts â€" WikiLeaks, Jane Fonda workouts, “Hawaii Five-O,” Jimmy Carter (and isn’t the TV show “Dexter,” in which liberal frustration leads to weekly ritual sacrifice by a serial killer, a redo of the very popular “Death Wish” in 1974?) â€" the Egyptian uprising appears to be a latte version of the Ayatollah Revolution in 1979; but one without the Ayatollah. And without the American hostages. The first brought Ronald Reagan from nowhere onto a steady trajectory to the most successful presidency, perhaps, in the post-war period. Possibly we will see that heartland instinct which emerged in the Reagan period awaken now to dominance. Indeed, it is what we have been seeing with Tea Party, Constitutional Conservatives, Sarah Palin, the “Ron Paul Revolution” and Judge Andrew Napolitano these last two years. The key, in my mind, is one case rising before the Supreme Court; the case of ObamaCare’s “individual mandate.” It will determine America’s future.

Read more...