King Pyrrhus of Epirus defeated the Romans at Heraclea (280BC) and at Asculum (279BC), but at the cost of irreplaceable casualties to his own forces. Upon being congratulated by a cohort, the King replied, “one more such victory would utterly undo me [1] .” I get an inkling of King Pyrrus’s lament as...
The Supreme Court has agreed to combine three cases ( National Federation of Independent Business v Sebelius , No 11-393; US Department of Health and Human Services v Florida , No 11-398; and Florida v Department of Health and Human Services , No 11-400) to review for ruling on the legal legitimacy of...
The hatful of lawsuits challenging ObamaCare are likely to be heard before the Supreme Court of the United States during this session. All of the cases ask the Court to rule on whether the Commerce Clause of the Constitution allows Congress only to regulate commerce that is being committed, or if Congress...
There’s an axiom for trial lawyers – if the facts are working against you, pound the table and scream the law; if the law’s working against you, pound the table and scream the facts; if both are working against you, just pound the table and scream. That’s what I got out of Richard Stengal’s Time Magazine...
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Finally, in the US Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit [Cincinnati], someone asked the central question regarding the constitutionality of the public mandate aspect of ObamaCare – does the Commerce Clause of the Constitution give the State the power to command people to commit commerce? It’s own language...
I use small-L “liberal” to denote neoliberals [today’s political liberals], and capital-L “Liberal” to denote paleoliberals [the children of the Enlightenment that included our Founders]. The rise of modern political Liberalism was an emergent behavior of movable type –...
I apologize for boring all of you with a look at how and why policy works (or doesn’t) and how it affects the non-government component of society (us). There is a motif to the serial dysfunction of governmental intervention – common threads that lead to increased hazard – that we are...
Speaker Pelosi is fond of saying that “healthcare is a right”, well now that is has been passed into law, either her speechwriter needs to be found and slapped for lying to us, or those who actually wrote the actual bill need to be found and slapped for making us pay for a right!
A stable currency was so important to the Founders that they included “To coin money, [and] regulate the value thereof [1] ” as one of the specific powers granted to Congress. They have delegated that power to the Federal Reserve, America’s central bank, and it regulates the value of the dollar by regulating...
The short answer is yes because he would replace history’s most successful economic theory (as measured by generalized prosperity and systemic economic growth), with its least successful (as measured by the same metrics). Now to the important question – what is a socialist? In strict theoretical...