Or, if it's not Tourette's, it's like Tourette's. Any way you look at it though, it's weird: Le Roy, N.Y.— ( By: Angela Hong courtesy: 13WHAM ) Wednesday night, James Dupont attended a meeting at Le Roy Junior-Senior High School hoping to find some answers about what may be wrong with his daughter. Since the first week of December, his 17-year-old … Read More
The Supreme Court Healthcare Challenge… in Plain English
Kudos to Amy Howe at SCOTUSBLOG, for summarizing "in plain English" where we stand with the legal challenges to Obamacare. Saved me a whole afternoon. I reprint it here in full. The health care grants: In Plain English On Monday morning, at exactly ten o’clock, the Court released its list of orders resulting from the Justices’ private Conference at the … Read More
Ultraconservative DC Circuit Judge Upholds Obamacare
Opinion here. Very well reasoned, and does a great job shooting down the legal arguments of those who think the individual mandate is unconstitutional. UPDATE: Obviously, other circuit courts have adjudicated on the merits of Obamacare and this will all go to the U.S. Supreme Court. But this means that three appellate courts have now considered the health care … Read More
Yeah, We Don’t Need Government Oversight
Earlier this year, nine North Carolina children became sick after eating applesauce at school. The MSNBC headline reveals why: Details.
Kids & TV
Here's the latest data from Common Sense Media about the media diets of young children in America. I'm kind of surprised that we have one year olds watching an hour of TV every day. Yeah, no ADD problems for them in the future. One year olds — can they even focus? Other interesting findings: 30% of kids under two have … Read More
Michelle Bachmann Kills Little Girls
I poke fun at her a lot, but her stupidity has an evil streak. To explain, I'll have to put in some background. HPV is an acronym for human papillomavirus, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention calls “the most common sexually transmitted infection.” Some twenty million Americans carry the virus and there are about six million new cases … Read More
Why The Eleventh Circuit is Wrong on Obamacare
Larry Tribe says it in plain (well, plain-ish) English: According to the Eleventh Circuit, decisions not to purchase health insurance are not economic activities subject to the aggregation principle of Wickard v. Filburn but are instead non-economic activities indistinguishable from the possession of a gun or a violent attack on a woman. This bizarre conclusion neglects the fact that a decision to forgo health insurance … Read More
11th Circuit Rules That Obamacare is Unconstitutional
A three-judge panel on the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals concluded that the individual mandate exceeded congressional authority under Article I of the Constitution because it was not enacted pursuant to Congress's tax power and it exceeded Congress' power under the Commerce Clause and the Necessary and Proper Clause. It was a split decision, with one judge dissenting. This, of … Read More
Birth Control: Free For All Women
The Obama Administration does something right: The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has announced sweeping new guidelines for women's health care which will change everything from distribution of birth control pills to administration of breast exams — and will mean insured women will no longer pay anything out of their own pocket. Beginning Aug. 1, 2012, all private … Read More
Santorum’s Failed Attempt to Link D-Day and Medicare
See if you can make sense of this: … Santorum said, what he and Paul Ryan want to do is “give people the resources to go out and choose for themselves choose what’s best for themselves.” Unlike Obama, he continued, who is spitting in the face of those Americans who fought on D-Day, 67 years ago today. “Almost 60,000 average … Read More
Why You Should Care About NY-26
Last night, in the 26th District of New York, a special election was held to fill the vacant congressional seat of Republican Chris Lee, who resigned in February (following a sex scandal where he advertised a shirtless photo of himself on Craigslist). The 26th District, in upstate New York, is very Republican. To give some perspective, the district, which spans from … Read More
Free Stem Cells For All!
Not really, but a federal appeals court has lifted last year's ban on stem cell research — a ban by some conservative D.C. judge with a stick up his butt. UPDATE: Opinion here (PDF) ADF keeps losing…..
Dumbest Quote About Libya
I'm not crazy about our intervention in Libya, and I'm among those who think the action is unconstitutional (not that anyone cares anymore about the War Powers Clause — that was dead letter law decades ago). But this criticism of Obama is just plain stupid. It comes from Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX): But then when you find out we're being sent … Read More
The GOP Attempt To Redefine Rape
After a meaningless attempt to repeal the Affordable Care Act, House Republicans set their sites on something else: passing a law which makes sure that no federal money goes to funding abortions. It was cleverly called the "No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act." Why do this? After all, existing law already restricts public funds for abortions. Weren't they voting on something that … Read More
And Now Back To Health Care…
Well, some shooting aside, the new Congress is back in session and rarin' to go. First on the agenda, repealing all the progress mad in health care. Now, of course, the ability of the Republicans to do this is limited. After all, Obama isn't going to sign a bill (even assuming a bill passes both houses) that guts his health … Read More