"The irony isn’t merely rich. It’s tragic. As we celebrate the 50th anniversary of Martin Luther King Jr.’s 'I Have a Dream' speech this week, the Obama Justice Department is suing the state of Louisiana to stop it from distributing school vouchers to kids seeking to escape failing schools.  ...

"In King’s 1963 speech, he told of his 'dream' that his four children would 'one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.'  

"That dream remains noble, but it hasn’t been advanced by a civil-rights leadership that opposes school choice and often follows an 'I have a scheme' method of activism. As liberal journalist Margaret Carlson of Bloomberg News said last Friday: 'We’ve gone from Martin Luther King to the Reverend Al Sharpton, and . . . it’s very dispiriting.' It’s also deplorable that King’s dream as been sullied by an administration that claims King’s mantle but acts against the interests of children so that they can be counted 'by the color of their skin.'"

"Shortly before July 4, Obama unilaterally suspended for a year Obamacare’s employer mandate — its requirement that most businesses provide government-sanctioned health insurance. In refusing to execute this part of the law (which, according to the statute itself, 'shall apply to months beginning after December 31, 2013'), Obama invited the question of whether a future Republican president could simply refuse to enforce, say, Obamacare’s exchange-subsidy provisions (which, by law, 'shall apply to taxable years ending after December 31, 2013'). Asked whether his successor could 'pick and choose whether they’ll implement your law and keep it in place,' Obama offered an astonishing reply: 'I didn’t simply choose to delay this on my own. This was in consultation with businesses all across the country.' Apparently, Obama has rewritten Article II of the Constitution; henceforth the president shall take care that the Laws be faithfully executed unless he and some businessmen decide differently. As a Tammany machine politician famously said, 'What’s the Constitution among friends?'"

"News reports suggest Bashar al-Assad marked the first anniversary of President Obama’s 'red line' on chemical weapons in traditional fashion: by launching a new chemical attack on civilians. 

"The White House says the president is 'deeply concerned' and insists those responsible 'must be held accountable.'  Surely Assad is quaking in his boots. ...   

"One year after he drew it, Obama's red line has become Assad’s green light."

"Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus had a message last week for outspoken conservatives who support strict immigration enforcement policies: Shut up.

"Yes, the head of the RNC is more concerned about protecting the party's Hispanic vote-pandering campaign than protecting law-abiding citizens from the devastating consequences of illegal immigration.

"At the RNC's annual summer meeting in Boston, Priebus complained that openly advocating self-deportation policies during last year's election season was 'horrific' and that rule-of-law rhetoric 'hurts us.' Yes, really.

"So is it OK to discuss during off-year election cycles? Leap years? Weekends? Holidays? Can the GOP sensitivity police let us in on their approved immigration discussion calendar?"

"On the subject of Egypt: Is it the U.S. government's purpose merely to cop an attitude? Or does it also intend to have a policy? ... 

"It would be nice to live in a world in which we could conduct a foreign policy that aims at the realization of our dreams — peace in the Holy Land, a world without nuclear weapons, liberal democracy in the Arab world. A better foreign policy would be conducted to keep our nightmares at bay: stopping Iran's nuclear bid, preventing Syria's chemical weapons from falling into terrorist hands, and keeping the Brotherhood out of power in Egypt. But that would require an administration that knew the difference between an attitude and a policy."

"The Obama administration provided a New York Times reporter exclusive access to a range of high-level national security officials for a book that divulged highly classified information on a U.S. cyberwar on Iran’s nuclear program, internal State Department emails show. 

"The information in the 2012 book by chief Washington correspondent David E. Sanger has been the subject of a yearlong Justice Department criminal investigation: The FBI is hunting for those who leaked details to Mr. Sanger about a U.S.-Israeli covert cyberoperation to infect Iran’s nuclear facilities with a debilitating computer worm known as Stuxnet. ... 

"The scores of State Department emails from the fall of 2011 to the spring of 2012 do not reveal which officials told Mr. Sanger, but they do show an atmosphere of cooperation within the administration for a book generally favorable toward, but not uncritical of, President Obama."

"Newly declassified documents, obtained by George Washington University’s National Security Archive, appear to for the first time acknowledge the existence of Area 51. Hundreds of pages describe the genesis of the Nevada site that was home to the government’s spy plane program for decades. The documents do not, however, mention any aliens."

"It is either the case that African Americans, young people, old people, and poor people labor under some onerous yet curiously undetectable burden that keeps them from obtaining free, government-issued photo IDs, or it is the case that Hillary Clinton, the NAACP, et al. are full of bunk when they claim that voter-ID laws such as the one just adopted in North Carolina amount to 'disenfranchisement.'

"The evidence strongly suggests the presence of ambient bunk levels approaching toxicity.  In general, Americans are very handy when it comes to acquiring free things issued by the government, and none of the groups that Democrats list as targets for 'disenfranchisement' has shown itself disproportionately unskillful in doing so. ..."

"If a regular citizen makes $100,000 a year working for a private company and loses his insurance because of ObamaCare, he must pay out of his pocket for the insurance he will be forced to purchase from the exchanges.

"However, if you are a sainted congressional staffer earning $100,000 a year and enter the exchanges, guess who picks up the tab for your new insurance plan? That’s right, your employer, the federal government, the lowly taxpayer.

"In other words, under ObamaCare, the only people forced into the exchanges whose insurance will still be paid for by their employer will be members of Congress and their staff."

"Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid admitted last week that ObamaCare was just a first move toward a fully government-run single-payer system. This should not be a surprise. Some of us knew it all along. ... 

"Single-payer systems purport to offer universal access, but that's not exactly right. These systems have to ration care because there's no endless stream of cash to fund them. As Margaret Thatcher famously said, sooner or later socialist systems run out of other people's money."