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The rising wave of popular activism in the United States is ritually derided by liberal commentators, politicians and academics as fringe-movement politics. But recent polling reveals that skepticism about government is broad and deep. Discontent with Washington has become the mainstream position; those who defend big government are the real extremists.

Surely someone has to say "no" to Mr. Obama's party, which gives an enthusiastic thumbs up to any idea that grows government, increases debt and weakens the country. The "hope and change" mantra has saddled the United States with record budget deficits and ruinous levels of debt stretching for as far as projections can be made. The country teeters on the edge of bankruptcy, and grows weaker while facing an increasingly dangerous international environment. Opposing misguided policies like these is like taking the car keys from an inebriated friend to keep him from driving, or taking credit cards away from...

Online Poll: Did a Florida doc cross a line with a sign telling patients to go elsewhere for care if they voted for Obama? A central Florida urologist has posted a sign on his office door warning supporters of President Barack Obama to find a different doctor.

If the O Force believes it's OK for the government to track citizens by their cell-phone signals, it's not a great leap to believe the same rule would apply to an implanted radio chip. This concern fits within a general disquiet over the Obama administration's incessant drive to expand government power over Americans' private lives. The health care law's provision mandating the purchase of health insurance, for example, is an unprecedented and unconstitutional claim of power under the Commerce Clause, which uses the IRS as its enforcement mechanism. A Congress that believes it can wield this type of power will...

The states fighting Obamacare in court are concerned with more than just health care. At stake are two fundamental views of the nature of the Constitution. In one, government power is limited. It enables and supports human liberty, serves as a referee to keep the game fair and punishes criminals who break the law. In the other view, government is a coercive mechanism that aims at perfecting a social vision in which personal freedom takes a back seat to the utopian plan where the ends justify the means. The lawsuits arising from the government health care takeover will help to...