WHEREFORE, Captain Justice, Guardian of the Realm and Leader of the Resistance, primarily asks that the Court deny the State's motion, as lacking legal basis. Alternatively, the Citizen Accused moves for an order in limine modifying the speech code as aforementioned, and requiring any other euphemisms and feel-good terms as the Court finds appropriate. --In …
Obamacare Makes Republicans Look Good
So sayeth John Dickerson, not without reason: Let's go back in time. During the debate over the law, the president had a difficult balancing act. He had to argue that the status quo in health care was a disaster while at the same time not threatening the status quo for those people who were happy …
Do You Use Your Blog to Give Individual Advice?
If you do, the state can shut you down: A moment’s reflection reveals that restrictions on advice are all around us, commonly in the form of occupational-licensing laws. And as government has grown, so too has the amount of advice that it seeks to regulate. In North Carolina, a state dietitian board ordered a blogger to …
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Homer Simpson Almost Solved Fermat’s Last Theorem
Don't believe me? Read.
Want Your Kids to Be Better Educated and Wealthier?
Remain married to your spouse, if at all possible. Note that the positive effect of having parents that remain married is even stronger when the parents in question never even went to college. Note the following as well: The idea that marriages have such strong spillover effects strikes some as a spurious correlation. But there …
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Get Your Flu Shots!
And don't believe nonsensical hype regarding flu vaccines.
James Clapper Throws the Obama Administration Under the Bus
Following up on this post, we have yet another indication that the intelligence community is pushing back against White House claims that it knew nothing about spying on friendly foreign governments: The nation’s top spymaster said on Tuesday that the White House had long been aware in general terms of the National Security Agency’s overseas eavesdropping, …
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Yes, It’s Time for Yet Another Obamacare Rollout Calamity Update
And we have quite a lot of ground to cover. A poll indicates that seventy percent of American voters want a delay of the individual mandate. I am frankly surprised that the number is not higher. There has been a lot of talk about extending the enrollment period. Insurance companies don't like that idea, because it …
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The Smell of Panic
Jonah Goldberg has a lot of fun at the expense of Greg Sargent, who is less a journalist and more a hack on behalf of the Obama administration, and the Democratic party. But in the midst of the entirely warranted Sargent-bashing, let's not forget that Sargent's calls for a bipartisan fix to Obamacare's problems reek of …
The Government Shutdown Was a Terrible and Disastrous Idea
So sayeth Ramesh Ponnuru and Rich Lowry. I align myself entirely with their comments, and the following is both bracing and completely accurate: Prior to the government shutdown, the House Republican leadership offered a plan to force the Senate to hold a symbolic vote on defunding Obamacare before allowing it to move on to a …
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Pejman Yousefzadeh 