Chief Justice John Roberts saves Obamacare by indirectly saying President Obama is liar. My print column is up.

UPDATE: Meanwhile, George Will believes Roberts ruling will provoke a backlash that will serve the cause of conservatism in the long run.

The health-care legislation’s expansion of the federal government’s purview has improved our civic health by rekindling interest in what this expansion threatens — the Framers’ design for limited government. Conservatives distraught about the survival of the individual mandate are missing the considerable consolation prize they won when the Supreme Court rejected a constitutional rationale for the mandate — Congress’s rationale — that was pregnant with rampant statism.

The case challenged the court to fashion a judicially administrable principle that limits Congress’s power to act on the mere pretense of regulating interstate commerce. At least Roberts got the court to embrace emphatic language rejecting the Commerce Clause rationale for penalizing the inactivity of not buying insurance:

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UPDATE III: More interesting analysis from the Washington Times here...