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Best ObamaCare Legal Analysis Yet

December 15th, 2010 · 3 Comments

University of Chicago Law Professor Richard Epstein makes Virginia v. Sebelius easy to understand for anyone who cares to actually understand the Constitutional (as opposed to policy) arguments against ObamaCare: The key successful move for Virginia was that it found a way to sidestep the well known 1942 decision of the Supreme Court in Wickard […]

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Tags: Constitutional Law · Health Care

Obama’s Revealing Fighting Words

December 15th, 2010 · Comments Off on Obama’s Revealing Fighting Words

So Obama vowed earlier this week to “fight” Republicans.  Oh, you post-partisan uniter, you!  Sigh.  OK, there’s lots of this kind of rhetoric in politics, with military terminology so ingrained in the process that people now forget “campaign” used to bring soldiers instead of brochures to people’s minds. But as I read the article and […]

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