Leftist Groupthink: The Liberal Legal Bubble

Via Reason Magazine, The Liberal Legal Bubble: How could members of the Supreme Court possibly seriously consider the argument that ObamaCare’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance is unprecedented and unconstitutional? The quality of the arguments? The presence of a genuine legal debate? No, if you ask the law’s liberal cheerleaders, there can only be [...]

Firewall: Slowly… Slowly…

Bill Whittle’s Firewall on the slow changes in the bill of rights: HT HotAir. This is all the same as the old story about how you boil a frog.  You don’t throw it straight into boiling water, you put it in room temperature water and you turn the heat up slowly.  The frog doesn’t notice [...]

The Curious Case of Samuel Chase; Obamacare Revisited

HotAir has this piece today on a law professor who wants to exile the Supreme Court and have them tried and executed in absentia for their crimes against the state if they strike down Obamacare, no, wait, he just wants them impeached if they don’t tax you for existing: Like conservatives, law professor David R. [...]

Obama, SCOTUS, and Obamacare

From Politico: “We are confident that this will be upheld because it should be upheld,” Obama said at a joint news conference at the White House with Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Mexican President Felipe Calderon. What.

Obamacare Groupthink

Karl at HotAir has this piece today: The Obamacare Echo Chamber at another New York-based outlet, NYT columnist (and former editorial page editor) Gail Collinsemotes: I can’t believe this might be overturned. How can this law not be constitutional? The other alternatives are forcing taxpayers to cover the cost of the care in emergency rooms [...]

Georgetown “Coed” and Reproductive Financing Part 2: Sandy Needs

Previously noted 30 year-old Georgetown “coed” law “student” reproductive justice activist Sandra Fluke has an interesting life. Her background gets more interesting by the day. And her boyfriend is the offspring of incredibly wealthy hard-left socialist radicals the Mutterperls. But that doesn’t mean that even though they’re wildly wealthy, well-connected leftists… that doesn’t mean she’s [...]

Georgetown “Coed” and Reproductive Financing; Ron Paul’s Counterpoint

First off, Georgetown University “Coed” Sandra Fluke is a 30 year-old activist for “women’s reproductive health”.  She was described as a “law student” during testimony. Her statement that’s been all over radio and TV, but wasn’t submitted to congress, because she was late, not a lawyer, clergy or related to the “mandates on religious institutions” [...]

Whence Come Rights?

Mark Steyn took a look at this last week: CNN’s John King did his best the other night, producing a question from one of his viewers: “Since birth control is the latest hot topic, which candidate believes in birth control, and if not, why?” To their credit, no Republican candidate was inclined to accept the [...]

Medical Ethics and The Broken Window Fallacy

From the Journal of Medical Ethics: After-birth abortion: why should the baby live? Alberto Giubilini1,2, Francesca Minerva3,4 + Author Affiliations 1Department of Philosophy, University of Milan, Milan, Italy 2Centre for Human Bioethics, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 3Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia 4Oxford Uehiro Centre for Practical [...]

Free To Choose Part 7: Who Protects The Consumer?

Milton Friedman on economics, the free market, consumer choice, and safety. The picture of the staggering amount of regulations cranked out by the federal government as of the 1970s is amazing.  Considering that they haven’t slowed down, it’s almost painful to imagine the number of laws you’re breaking right now due to regulations as interpretations [...]