Peace sells, but who's selling?

Arianna Huffington: Campaign 2012's Biggest Disconnect: Americans Want Out of Afghanistan, Candidates Would Rather Ignore It

Paul Ryan's budget is as fair as it gets

Everyone gets a cut:

it slashes taxes for corporations and the rich while drastically cutting food and medical aid to the needy.

damned liberal media, government

AP reports on the arrest and charge of a man accused of bombing an abortion clinic.  The man was charged with arson.  Neither the charges nor the article speak refer to the act as terrorism or its perpetrator as a terrorist.  Those terms are reserved for scary brown people and college kids that set fur farm animals free.

The Associated Press: Suspect charged in Wis. Planned Parenthood arson

Scalia the activist

But Justice Sonia Sotomayor voiced a view that also seemed to be shared by Justices Stephen Breyer and Ruth Bader Ginsburg. States that have experimented with similar health care plans, she said, have adjusted those plans as problems occurred.

"Why shouldn't we let Congress do that?" she asked. "What's wrong with leaving it in the hands of the people who should be fixing this, not us?"

Ginsburg later noted that the law contains many provisions that have nothing to do with the individual mandate. "So why should we say: It's a choice between a wrecking operation, which is what you are requesting, or a salvage job?" she said to Clement. "And the more conservative approach would be salvage rather than throwing out everything."

However, Justice Antonin Scalia was skeptical of the "salvage" approach in questions to Deputy Solicitor General Edwin Kneedler, who argued that only the mandate and the guaranteed-issue and community-ratings provisions should be severed if the mandate is unconstitutional.

"Whether we strike it all down or leave some of it in place, the congressional process will never be the same," Scalia said. "One way or another, Congress is going to have to reconsider this, and why isn't it better to have them reconsider it — what should I say — in toto?"

Whose choice as to which is "better" is it Scalia? Yours or Congress? Why should Congress start out as if nothing was passed if something was in fact passed simply because you think it'd be "better" if they started from scratch?

honest question

how do government job residency requirements pass constitutional muster in light of the privileges and immunities clause?

Why I hate authority

Old man's Life Alert badge goes off accidentally, and he winds up dead after police claim he came at them with a knife.  Internal affairs claims the shooting was justified.  Just one problem: life alert recorded the entire exchange and there are two video tapes of what happened.  Turns out the cops got into a pissing match about whether the old man had to let the officers inside - calling him a nigger and ridiculing his military service in the process.  once they got in, he was standing there defenseless - arms in plain view - in nothing but his underwear. the cops tasered him, shot him with a bean bag gun, and then shot him with a regular gun twice in the chest. 

Marine veteran Kenneth Chamberlain Sr. killed after clash with police who responded to his medical emergency - NY Daily News

Problem with Obama care is . . . it hasn't done a damn thing for anyone

I don't know what it did for me. I pay close to $1000.00 per month for my family to have health insurance that covers big and small things - but hits us with high co pays and leaves us out to dry if we have a medical problem with our teeth. That's pretty much what I was paying and receiving before "Obamacare".

My parents get their insurance through my Dad's employer, and they suffer from a high up front deductible that deters routine preventative care - until the burn through more than $1,000 in out of pocket bills, their insurance covers nothing and they still have high co-pays after. The primary reason they work at this point is for that crummy insurance, and any hope they had of retiring was dashed in the second or third round of Obama's compromises to the ass hole Senators in his own party.

So what has Obamacare done for me? Nothing. Along with all the substantive compromises, Obama let the effective date of most of his reforms be set so far into the future that its hard for nearly anyone to quantify their real world impact.

that's why I highly doubt you'll see its defeat by the Supreme court as any sort of rallying point beyond lip service by the faithful. Obama passed a law that didn't have any real impact on most people's lives for years - years in which his detractors could make the case that the program is socialist slavery to those inclined to listen to that sort of thing.