10. Obama nominated a positive rights-style liberal to the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals. This is bad news for people who believe in judicial restraint, especially since he could be a Supreme Court prospect a few years down the road.
9. Reason breaks down the debate on the constitutionality of the individual mandate within the health care bill.
8. The Pacific Research Institute recently released a study on government to government lobbying. It turns out that government lobbies aren’t scrutinized the way private sector ones are-reminiscent of what Milton Friedman says about spending other people’s money.
7. Social Security will dole out more benefits than it receives in payroll taxes this year-something that wasn’t supposed to happen until 2016.
6. A good summary of the politics of health care: Pre and post-passage of the health care bill and of what we know and what we don’t know.
5. And the award for the most paternalistic legislative proposal goes to…
4. Click the link for the real costs of the health care bill and how its numbers are knowingly underestimated.
3. Don’t tread on me. States take on health care reform.
2. A very telling video with street interviews about the health care bill’s passage. (Listen to what the Swedish gentleman, who left the ‘old country’ because he was unhappy with socialized medicine, had to say.)
1. Finally, some good news! ACORN is only open for another week!