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- Paul Krugman takes down Fat Tony Scalia's talk radio gibberish:

Let’s start with the already famous exchange in which Justice Antonin Scalia compared the purchase of health insurance to the purchase of broccoli, with the implication that if the government can compel you to do the former, it can also compel you to do the latter. That comparison horrified health care experts all across America because health insurance is nothing like broccoli.

Why? When people choose not to buy broccoli, they don’t make broccoli unavailable to those who want it. But when people don’t buy health insurance until they get sick — which is what happens in the absence of a mandate — the resulting worsening of the risk pool makes insurance more expensive, and often unaffordable, for those who remain. As a result, unregulated health insurance basically doesn’t work, and never has.

- (h/t Atrios) Law professor Glenn Reynolds goes Glenda Beck:

Friday, March 30, 2012

Glenn Reynolds: Obama is a "racist hatemonger."

Wow, Putzy's gone full Stormfront.

"President Obama’s interest in the victims of violence is selective: he cares if they look like the hypothetical son he doesn’t have.”

In other words, he’s a racist hatemonger. Just to be clear. So much for hope and change.

I wish he would just call him the n-word and get it over with.

(h/t Hurling Dervish)

Posted by Blue Texan at 11:29 AM

- Gov. Scott "Freedom to Work for Less" Walker loses one battle against the unions:

Federal court strikes down parts of union law
By Bruce Vielmetti and Patrick Marley of the Journal Sentinel

A federal judge in Madison on Friday ruled that portions of Act 10 - the lightning-rod measure from Gov. Scott Walker that removed most collective bargaining for most public employees - are unconstitutional.

The court sided with state officials in upholding limitations on what can be bargained, but found the two other provisions violated the union members' equal protection and First Amendment rights, considering that the same rules did not apply to unions for public safety workers such as police and firefighters.

"So long as the State of Wisconsin continues to afford ordinary certification and dues deductions to mandatory public safety unions with sweeping bargaining rights, there is no rational basis to deny those rights to voluntary general unions with severely restricted bargaining rights," wrote U.S. District Judge William M. Conley.

I noted before that Walker lied about the rationale for his anti-union measures.