"In a second term," Mitt Romney darkly warned in a speech to the National Rifle Association last month, President Barack Obama "would be unrestrained by the demands of re-election.

Of all the arguments being waged over the Affordable Care Act - or, as the Obama campaign now likes to refer to it, "Obamacare" - the one dominating the Supreme Court last week is perhaps the most conceptually trivial.

WASHINGTON - In 2011, Gallup's polling showed that President Obama averaged an 80 percent approval rating among Democrats and 12 percent among Republicans, making his third year in office one of the most polarizing on record.

WASHINGTON — The candidates brandished a “Health Care Bill of Rights for Seniors” that promised to protect Medicare from their opponents’ “raid.” The party chairman wrote an op-ed warning that the other guys’ plan meant that “senior citizens will pay a steeper price and will have the...