ACORN cries foul, liberal judge agrees
A federal district judge, the Honorable Nina Gershon of the Eastern District of New York, has found that congressional legislation that restricts funding by the federal government of ACORN is unconstitutional by virtue of being a “bill of attainder.” Judge Gershon is best-known, at least until now, as the judge who ruled that Mayor [...]
‘Health care reform’ flunks out of Harvard Medical school
The dean of Harvard Medical School gives the health-reform debate a failing grade:
Speeches and news reports can lead you to believe that proposed congressional legislation would tackle the problems of cost, access and quality. But that’s not true. The various bills do deal with access by expanding Medicaid and mandating subsidized insurance at substantial cost–and [...]
Just Plain Wrong
Normally I tend not to get as worked up about our national eating habits like, say, the Center for Science in the Public Interest or Mayor Bloomberg. Is there an obesity problem in America? Sure. Childhood obesity even moreso. Do we need to ban trans-fats from cities like New York or sue fast-food giants because [...]
Hiding Under the Ceiling
INAPPROPRIATE CONDUCT
While President Obama and his White House staff have taken a
drubbing in the media for their lack of initiative in proposing
or heavily influencing Congressional legislation, their
fingerprints are all over one bill that should come into focus in
the very near future: the Defense [...]
