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LU StaffFebruary 8, 2014
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State Gambling Commission shuts down senior center’s penny ante poker

If you refuse to see lemonade stand closures as the first sign of an encroaching police state, maybe the latest…
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerFebruary 5, 2014
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Treasury, Lois Lerner planned to change rules for 501(c)(4)s in secret

Untrustworthy.
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Economy

J.E. DyerFebruary 2, 2014
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The Obama administration’s attack on the U.S. financial system

A weapon formed against us.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJanuary 31, 2014
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Sarah Palin zings Peggy Noonan: ‘Where were you in ’08?’

Right from the start.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJanuary 31, 2014
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Cruel, dismissive Obamacare: People are just statistics

Designed to hurt, right from the start.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJanuary 27, 2014
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Themes in Law & Order SVU: Your tax dollars at work for you

Such a story they have for us.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJanuary 25, 2014
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Libido-gate

The new "L" word.
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Education

J.E. DyerJanuary 23, 2014
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The great conservative debate

"Social issues" versus liberty.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJanuary 18, 2014
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Obamacare: New bad news, new worse news

From bad to worse.
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJanuary 18, 2014
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Taxpayer funded ‘Covered California’ dance-off with Richard Simmons

Worshipping national health care through dance.
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Law and Government

Renee NalJanuary 9, 2014
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Newly-discovered town records dating back from the 1840’s confiscated, destroyed

Imagine what it would be like to find a room that has been sealed for fifty years filled with records…
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJanuary 6, 2014
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Alt v. EPA: Score one for the good guys

This case is a few months old, but its outcome just came to my attention. It’s a case brought by…
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJanuary 5, 2014
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Little Sisters in Gulag Nation: ‘Just sign the form’

What an interesting moment we have arrived at with the Obamacare contraception mandate. The Catholic order Little Sisters of the…
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerJanuary 2, 2014
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Why the light bulb ban is evil

The light bulb ban is evil because it treats people as if we are, in the aggregate, a “system” to…
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Law and Government

Jeff DunetzJanuary 2, 2014
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A list of everything imperial mayor Michael Bloomberg banished from his kingdom during the past 12 years

At midnight Tuesday, Michael Bloomberg — aka his nannyship, self-anointed emperor of everything east of the Hudson River up to…
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerDecember 29, 2013
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California: The Obamacare success story

Mere hours ago, California was once again touted as an example of success for Obamacare, an island of completed sign-ups…
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerDecember 28, 2013
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Man, the state, and surveillance

We’ve now had federal judges come down two different ways on the question of NSA surveillance of U.S. citizens. In…
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerDecember 26, 2013
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VA abuses American veterans: Denies delivery of Christmas cards

Children can’t deliver handmade Christmas cards to veterans in a VA hospital in Dallas, if the cards say “Merry Christmas”…
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Economy

J.E. DyerDecember 20, 2013
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Five things Americans may be learning

Are Americans learning anything from our protracted moment of twisting in the wind under the Obama administration? That’s a good…
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Economy

J.E. DyerDecember 15, 2013
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Biofuels for defense: Cronyism and the banality of evil

Are you able to work up indignation about cronyism at this point? Or did your sense of moral outrage glaze…
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Law and Government

Renee NalDecember 15, 2013
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Feeding the homeless: Bake sales illegal across the country

Across the country during the past several years, news reports have been popping up about well-intended rules that prohibit citizens…
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerDecember 9, 2013
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Another day, more endemic extortion from a regulatory Congress

Author Peter Schweizer made the talk-show rounds a few weeks back to tout his new book Extortion, which examines the…
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Education

J.E. DyerDecember 4, 2013
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Schools asking parents, students to declare political affiliation

This can’t be coincidence. Blog reports in the last two weeks indicate that public schools in two different states have…
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Economy

J.E. DyerNovember 27, 2013
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What to talk about this Thanksgiving

I agree wholeheartedly with Libby, Kevin, Jim Geraghty, and others that it is creepy and fascist of leftist policy advocates…
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerNovember 23, 2013
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California auto-enrolling health plan exchange customers in food stamps?

There’s automated efficiency, and then there’s the Brave New World. Writer Nicole Hopkins’s mother, a resident of Washington state, found…
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Media

Myra Kahn AdamsNovember 23, 2013
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Back in the USSR: ‘We must accept that we, the press, have been enablers’

President Obama’s lapdog media have finally realized that they are back in the USSR. Apparently the board of the White House…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyNovember 21, 2013
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True Confessions: ‘How Obamacare forced my mom to become a whore of the state’

Somehow, despite the recent troubling about-face by one of the human shields Barack Obama used in his Rose Garden standoff against growing…
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Law and Government

J.E. DyerNovember 20, 2013
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Three things to keep in mind about Obamacare

We’re getting off track here, people. We all keep obediently discussing the new Revelation du Jour about the terrible, horrible,…
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Economy

J.E. DyerNovember 16, 2013
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Breaking wind: NIMBYs, hostages, and other woes from the European wind wars

Those darned Europeans are so attached to their picturesque views. When it comes to wind power and wind-turbine farms, the…
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Politics

LU StaffNovember 8, 2013
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WH gives Dem Senators facing reelection ‘permission’ to bash administration?

Here’s hoping they got it in writing. Who knew Democrats needed Barack Obama’s permission to take shots at him and…
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Economy

J.E. DyerOctober 31, 2013
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Want hope and a future? Deregulate.

Readers, in a comments exchange at TOC (my home blog) today, I responded to Reader of Excellence “jgets,” and realized…
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Law and Government

LU StaffOctober 29, 2013
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The Obamacare subsidies are on trial

Amid all the blame-shifting and back-and-forth name-calling over the benighted Affordable Care Act, the ever-sensible Sean Trende has an important piece today…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 29, 2013
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WH website, blog still promising you can keep your health insurance

Hey, what do you expect from an administration that is still familiarizing itself with DOS command lines? Weasel Zippers notes that…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 29, 2013
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Obama lied, millions of insurance plans died

The lede paragraph in a blockbuster story reads as though it were the latest plot against the Obama administration by…
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Politics

LU StaffOctober 28, 2013
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WH: 'It's true' some Americans won't be able to keep their health care plan under Obamacare

Now, Jay, was that so hard? Maybe next you could persuade your boss, Mr. Pouty, to come down here to…
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Law and Government

Howard PortnoyOctober 25, 2013
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Newest headache: Obamacare + sequestration = disaster for low-income families

Obama’s vaunted health care reform just sprung another leak, this one adversely impacting one of his MFC (Most Favored Classes):…
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