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HEALTH CARE:

The New York Times is showing its bias by declaring that even conservative justices should support the Obamacare mandate.

"Thus did this week’s Supreme Court arguments over the Obama administration’s health care law emerge as a historic test of federal power versus individual liberty, all the more remarkable given that just a few weeks ago, the overwhelming view of constitutional scholars was that this wouldn’t be a close case, with even conservative justices likely to uphold the law.

That it now looks not only possible but perhaps likely that the Supreme Court will strike down the health care law as unconstitutional, probably in its entirety, is a tribute to some skilled and passionate advocacy and the persuasive power of conservative media — and what seems a breathtaking departure from decades of Supreme Court jurisprudence."

That's quite the assertion with no evidence presented to back it up. If you look at Supreme Court jurisprudence, given that the law is identical for conservative and liberal justices, the only explanation for split decisions is politics, which is a giant factor in this case. Like all cases, this case will be decided by what's in the personal interest of the justices, and politics will be at the top of those personal interests. It's likely Kennedy will be the deciding vote again.

POLICE STATE:

This article presents more evidence that government is losing its legitimacy in the eyes of many Americans. I'm sure that's scary for the people who use institutionalized theft to fund themselves, and it probably means violence for the most adamant resisters, but this is good for everybody else despite this article's attempt to present the situation as scary. I can't believe cops have allowed a fugitive to remain outside of custody because of threats of violence. Cops never de-escalate. They always escalate and maximize violence.

"At its most extreme, McArthur said, sovereigns have been linked to threats of violence and the murders of six police officers since 2002, including the slayings of officers Brandon Paudert and Bill Evans in West Memphis, Ark., in 2010."

As opposed to the unknowable threats of violence contained in all the laws passed by government and the thousands or more Americans government kills with its guns every year and the hundreds of thousands more it kills indirectly on its highways and in its hospitals and the millions more it makes sick with its food and its drugs.

This might be the most intelligent statement I've heard about the Zimmmerman case: let's try in the courts, not the the public. The only problem is, the government won't charge Zimmerman. Again, I'm not saying Zimmerman should be charged. What I'm saying is tens or hundreds of thousands of Americans are charged in similar circumstances every year. For some reason, Zimmerman is being treated differently. I like different. I think the way the police are treating Zimmerman should be the norm, not the exception. But it'll be a cold day in hell before that happens.

WAR:

Bin Laden lived mostly in Pakistan since 2002 in five different houses.

"During the manhunt for bin Laden, most U.S. and Pakistani officials said that bin Laden was likely living somewhere along the remote Afghanistan-Pakistan border, possibly in a cave."

This was justification for the war in Afghanistan. While I believe the US government is so incompetent that it really did take ten years to find bin Laden, what private companies could have done in weeks, I think claims he was on the border were pure propaganda.

POLITICS:

5,200 people attend Paul rally in Wisconsin. Find me another bigger.

LOCAL:

Local hoodie rally.

MISC:

I've read a dozen articles this week about the lottery, and all of them want you to believe that winning it is a bad for you. I'm not joking. I don't get it. For example.

""The perception is once you win the lottery, you are set — you're in great shape. But in reality the battle has just begun," says Andrew Stoltmann, an attorney who has represented lottery winners who have hit financial troubles.

"Often lottery winners do not have much experience with managing money and lack basic investing skills," he says. In turn, they can easily make bad investments, fritter their money away on big-ticket purchases and fall prey to scam artists."

Of course some people blow their winnings, but come on.... Our rulers want us to believe that winning tens of millions of dollars will harm us. You know why. They don't want you or I to join the ruling class. So they publish articles claiming we're too stupid to be rich. The audacity is amazing.

The greatest scene in the history of movies.