"Puerto Rico and Greece are now going broke, and California is on its way. What it is about coastal weather that makes people want to sip coffee in cafes all day while complaining that government doesn't do enough for them?

"The Greeks created philosophy. So who would guess that a country full of philosophy majors couldn't repay its debt to a U.S. government filled with gender-studies majors? A country with all those Greek letters in its name could be mistaken for a fraternity, and thus will get nothing from this administration -- except maybe a false rape story in Rolling Stone.

"You will see Greece coming to Obama for a bailout disguised as 'humanitarian help.' Obama will say, 'Up yours, Zorba! Come back when you are a U.S. public sector union or a solar energy company and political supporter with no chance of making it.'"

"[T]oo many of Trump's GOP primary competitors, afraid of angering his fans, stand mute or mumbling. Republicans are fielding the best candidates in a generation, but Trump is poised to make them chumps by association. He has no chance of becoming president, but he has the huge potential to deny his alleged party a White House victory in 2016. And when that happens, he will of course stay a celebrity, but he will have traded his fame for infamy, even among those now cheering him on."

"Democratic primaries have always featured liberal insurgent candidates, but perhaps none quite so liberal or insurgent as the socialist senator from Vermont. Sanders' comments are a reminder of just how far the second-place Democratic presidential candidate stands from the American mainstream on some issues, and the looming reckoning Democrats face with their party's leftward drift."

"Humility has never come easy to the Eurocrats in Brussels. After all, no matter how many mistakes they've made, they seem to stay in office and simply pay for their errors with the money of Europe'€™s taxpayers. But in the middle of the Greek crisis, they should realize that this is no time to continue headlong over a cliff. Most analysts agree that Greece's exiting from the euro today wouldn't be the danger to the rest of Europe it might have been five years ago.

"And Europe would definitely be better off without Greece as a constant thorn in its side. As for Greece, without Europe to blame for its problems, perhaps it will finally kick out its populist and incompetent government and do the right thing: adopt a new currency, create a simplified tax system that people don'€™t feel obliged to evade, and abandon the crony capitalism that is strangling its economy and people."

"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.

"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed ...

"We, therefore, the Representatives of the united States of America, in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances, establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes and our sacred Honor."

"In a lot of ways, Biden would be the true anti-Hillary. He is completely uninhibited, he is impossible to script -- which makes him seem authentic -- and he has a human appeal that everyone can relate to. Clinton, on the other hand, is running a surreal campaign that avoids crowds, media and spontaneity of any kind. She is protecting her lead in the most standard, unimaginative way possible. Compared with Clinton's robotic, stiff approach, could having a reputation for occasionally saying the wrong thing and hugging too much work to Biden's advantage in an era where voters want the real thing? ...

"Maybe this is Biden's moment."

"Despite the Supreme Court decision to uphold the subsidies for private insurance in King v. Burwell, the fundamental problems with the Affordable Care Act remain. Ironically, it is the growing government centralization of health insurance at the expense of private insurance that must be addressed. ...

"Why is private health insurance so important? Insurance without access to medical care is a sham. And that is where the country is heading. According to a 2014 Merritt Hawkins survey, 55% of doctors in major metropolitan areas refuse new Medicaid patients. The harsh reality awaiting low-income Americans is dwindling access to quality doctors, hospitals and health care.

"Simultaneously, while the population ages into Medicare eligibility, a significant and growing proportion of doctors don’t accept Medicare patients. According to the nonpartisan Medicare Payment Advisory Commission, 29% of Medicare beneficiaries who were looking for a primary-care doctor in 2008 already had a problem finding one."

"As a conservative, I think it serves the country best if elected officials, not judges, repair what's wrong in Obamacare. Former Texas Gov. Rick Perry, a 2016 GOP presidential hopeful, hit the right note when he said he did not agree with the ruling. 'It was never up to the Supreme Court to save us from Obamacare,' he said in a statement issued Thursday.

"Because the Democratic Congress wrote a heavy-handed provision that the Obama White House determined it was best to ignore, the Supreme Court got handed a live grenade. With all the Democratic justices on board, Roberts jumped on the grenade -- leading with a bogus argument.

"The real casualty is any notion that the U.S. Supreme Court remains an honest broker."

"Last March, Hillary Clinton told reporters she had turned over to the State Department every email from her secret system that bore any relation to her work as Secretary of State. 'I ... provided all my emails that could possibly be work-related,' Clinton told reporters.

"Now the State Department has admitted that is not true. ...

"One more thing. Included in the packet given to the committee Thursday evening were emails that Clinton had in fact turned over to the State Department but which the State Department had not turned over to the committee. So it appears that not only Clinton, but the State Department too, have not been as transparent as they have claimed in the email affair."

"Mr. Obama has lost -- at least temporarily and perhaps permanently -- the ability to describe what we should aspire to as a nation. Rather than appealing to the better angels of our nature, the president employs ad hominem attacks against those who disagree with him, complains about the failure of his political agenda, and suggests that America has an almost genetic inclination toward racism.

"South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley does not have Mr. Obama's reputation for eloquence, but he would be wise to look to her example before he speaks Friday in Charleston at the funeral of Rev. Clementa Pinckney. There was a graciousness and a commitment to unify in Ms. Haley's words and actions this week. Many Americans once associated those traits with Barack Obama, and would like to do so again."