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...
After months of pooh-poohing those mouth-breathing knuckle-draggers saying that ObamaCare couldn’t possibly deliver what it promised, when it promised, for what it promised, we are starting to get the first real-world look at that with which Pelosi, Reid and Obama shackled us. The Congressional...
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...
I came across an interesting study by Penn State’s Stephan Schuster, to be published in Nature this month, finding that any two African bushmen who spoke different languages were more different genetically than a European and an Asian. That was true even if the bushmen lived within walking distance of...
Cracks are beginning to show in Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel’s once impregnable political armor. Last week he had to apologize after it surfaced that he called liberal groups “f****** retarded” in a private meeting. People are ripping chief political strategist David Axelrod. A spate of recent losses...
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Hopeychange died at 8PM [Boston time] on January 19 2010, one day short of one year old, and we’ve been spared a trillion-dollar energy fiasco and a trillion-dollar healthcare fiasco. So the questions now are, what do the Democrats do?, and what do the Republicans do? This same sort of rude awakening...
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This will be the year of Iran – either the Peacock Throne will acquire the bomb, or it will suffer military strike to prevent that, or it will be displaced from within. Whichever, the events will be pivotal on the international stage and Iran will be the focus of 2010. The first option will result in...
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It’s now indisputable that the Congressional minority has won the healthcare debate. Virtually every poll now shows that the American people don’t want Obama/Pelosi/ReidCare. And the president and congressional Democrats don’t care. That’s a working definition of an ideologue. I don’t mind Mr Obama staking...
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Remember in the dim, dark past when Tiger Woods drove through a fire hydrant on his way to a tree? Shortly thereafter news-readers hinted that a domestic argument over an affair immediately preceded the accident. “Malicious and irresponsible!” was Team Tiger’s response. Fast forward – past fourteen ...
I am a Paleo-Liberal in the Washingtonian, Jeffersonian, Madisonian, Hamiltonian sense … certainly not a Neo-Liberal in the paternalistic, condescending, royalist sense of both “big government” political parties of today. The pathology of the American experiment is a meritocracy –...