It’s nice to know that sometimes people do what they think is ‘right’, not what is expected of them.

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After a couple of months, we still no likey.  In fact, we no likey even more than when ObamaCare was initially signed in to law.

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Steven Muffson and Michael D Shear via The Washington Post: Allies of the president have argued for weeks that the administration should stop talking about BP, the oil company responsible for the spill, and instead tap into the public attention to the catastrophe in hopes of giving it at least some redemptive value in the […]

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I’m loathe to suggest that there might be a bright side to the oil spill in the gulf, but if there is, Peter Baker of The New York Times sums it up perfectly: Now that engineers have given up trying to plug the leak and have turned their efforts to containing it until a relief […]

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Spenser S. Hsu via The Washington Post: Arizona’s new crackdown on illegal immigration will increase crime in U.S. cities, not reduce it, by driving a wedge between police and immigrant communities, police chiefs from several of the state’s and the nation’s largest cities said Wednesday. You don’t say.

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Julian Sanchez via Newsweek: we now take for granted that the interstate-commerce power constitutes a blank check, not just when Congress seeks to rectify gross historical iniquity, but for such purposes as overriding state decisions to permit local cultivation of medical marijuana. I wonder how quickly the classic Libertard argument that states rights is a […]

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Aren’t drug warriors awesome?  In a report by Radley Balko of reason magazine detailing the very shady practices of the NYPD and their has-to-be-fucking-unconstitutional “stop and frisk” program, he writes, While only about one tenth of 1 percent of the stops yielded a gun (at present it’s nearly impossible to legally carry a gun in […]

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Justice Clarence Thomas via his scathing dissenting opinion of today’s United States v Comstock decision: The Constitution does not vest in Congress the authority to protect society from every bad act that might befall it.1 Well said. Too bad even those Justices who clearly see where this decision leads, a place where Congress has the […]

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I’ve been wondering how it is that the Demotards were able to claim that we would save money by taking a health care entitlement program that covers some people, and turning in to an exponentially larger health care program that covers everyone.  I’m no mathematician or economist, I didn’t stay at a Holiday Inn Express […]

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Eric Lichtblau of The New York Times: If President Obama has his way, loans at auto dealers would be put under the purview of a new federal consumer protection authority to guard against fraud and abuse. The prospect of increased regulations, Mr. Berscht said, “could force us out of the financing business,” and it has […]

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