"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."

"Demographer Joel Kotkin found that 13 of the 15 best cities in the country for African Americans to live in are now in the South. Over the last decade, millions of African Americans have been reversing the Great Migration of a century ago to live in Dixie. A big part of that story is economic, of course -- the 'blue state' model has failed generations of minorities -- but it's also cultural. Word has gotten out that while the flags may be around in some places, the Old Confederacy is gone.

"Whenever conservatives complain that blacks vote monolithically Democratic, liberals are quick to argue that this is a rational decision given the realities of the black community. Surely, the same thing holds when they vote with their feet?

"No, the South isn't perfect; name a region that is. But it does have good manners, which is why it routinely acts with more dignity -- and in Charleston, with more grace -- than its critics to the north."

"The Raisin Administrative Committee is the federal government's version of OPEC, but for raisins. Created by a 1937 law, it had (until Monday) the power to seize and destroy raisins without necessarily compensating farmers. The aim was to keep raisin prices high through artificial scarcity. Under the program, the government could do what it wanted with the raisins. Farmers had only a moderate chance of recouping the money from the raisins they lost, depending on whether the bureaucrats found a way to sell them profitably.

"The Supreme Court, in a resounding eight-to-one decision, ruled against the raisin panel and the Obama administration's defense of it. They did not do so because it is an abomination to a free society to have government dictate market outcomes in this way, but rather because the physical seizure of the raisins and the forced transferal of title to the government constitutes an obvious taking of private property. ...

"This ruling could make it significantly harder for government to run raisin cartels and similar agricultural programs in the future. We hope it makes it impossible."

"Hillary Clinton knows she has more baggage than Newark Airport. She doesn't care, because she is counting on two strong forces to carry her to victory: Demographics and the leftward turn in American culture.

"She and the other Democrats suffer from cultural hubris, though. Their social justice wings always threaten to take them a little too close to the sun....

"The media often remind us that Democrats and Republicans used to forge bipartisan policy solutions, scolding Republicans for supposedly moving right.

"But if the center is becoming a lonely place in American politics, Democrats are walking away from it much more rapidly than Republicans are."

"Mrs. Clinton is almost certainly about to glide to her party's nomination. There will be a few bumps. She will occasionally be pressed and challenged on various questions. There will be back and forth. But her Democratic opponents will not attack her character, her history, her financial decisions, her scandals. They will not go at her personally. She will emerge dinged but not damaged. No one will ravage the queen. ...

"The Democrats have an enforcement mechanism to keep all their candidates in line. Bernie Sanders and Martin O'Malley know without being told that the party will kill them if they tear apart the assumed nominee. Their careers will be over if they go at her personally."

"If the present trajectories continue, a reconfigured Middle East will be bookended by radical Islamic empires -- the Islamic State caliphate and a new Persian empire. China will control most of the Pacific and adjudicate trade, commerce, and politics west of Hawaii and to the south and east of India. The client states of a new Russian empire will border central Europe and be under constant pressure to leave the EU, NATO, or both.

"How does all this end? One of two ways.

"America and its allies can reawaken, gradually restore deterrence, and reestablish the old postwar order without a global war.

"Or the United States will not be bothered -- at least until this new generation of dictators bothers us at home."

"What if a team of Chinese agents had broken into the Pentagon or -- less box office but just as bad -- the U.S. Office of Personnel Management and carted out classified documents? ...

"Meanwhile, in real life, it was revealed last week that the Chinese stole millions of personnel files and mountains of background-check information from the U.S. government. ...

"Many are calling it a 'cyber Pearl Harbor.'

"And yet, this news took a back seat to Hillary Rodham Clinton's second announcement that she's running for president, iPhone footage of a hotheaded cop breaking up a Texas pool party, and the admittedly hilarious revelation that an obscure NAACP official in eastern Washington state isn't really black.

"Why?"