Business, Economics, Health, Media Criticism, Political Commentary

ObamaCare

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…approaches its day of reckoning. As do its authors, in November.

Rarely has one law so exemplified the worst of the Leviathan state — grotesque cost, questionable constitutionality and arbitrary bureaucratic coerciveness. Little wonder the president barely mentioned it in his latest State of the Union address. He wants to be reelected. He’d rather talk about other things.

And no celebration of its two-year anniversary. I guess it wasn’t as much of a BFD as Joe Biden said it was. Or perhaps it is, but not in the way he thought.

[Update a few minutes later]

Happy second birthday, ObamaCare! “Now let’s destroy it, root and branch.”

[Update a while later]

Five things the Democrats (politically) got wrong on ObamaCare. Did they get anything right?

[Mid-morning update]

Heh: “Democrats so misjudged everything about Obamacare, you would think they never read the bill or something.”

[Late morning update]

WSJ: Liberty and ObamaCare.

Political Commentary, Science And Society, Social Commentary

Straight People

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Are they born that way?

I know I was. And if someone “self identifies” as straight, but shows signs of arousal by the same sex, they’re not straight, they’re bi. I don’t understand why the concept of a spectrum, a distribution from pure homosexual through bisexual to pure heterosexual, skewed toward the latter, is such a hard concept for people to get their heads around.

Business, Political Commentary

A Victory For Due Process

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SCOTUS has slapped down the EPA. It’s insane that this case even had to be brought in the first place.

[Update a few minutes later]

Here’s Scalia’s majority (actually, unanimous, that’s what I meant by “slapped down”) opinion. It should be noted that it was not just the EPA that was slapped down, but (once again) the Ninth District.

[Update a while later]

They get their day in court, but they may still lose. As noted in comments, they need a legal fund, though I suspect they’re getting pro bono support from free-market places.

Biting Commentary about Infinity…and Beyond!