Nocera with yet more good stuff on the NCAA Cartel: It was amusing this week to watch Emmert trot out “the collegiate model” as he was confronted with the reality of the “one and done” freshman. “One and done” freshmen — or players who have...
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Robert Wright is wondering why the Affordable Care Act wasn't just a straightforward use of the tax power, and his analysis is of course focused on the median votes of.
Your uterus will belong to the state.
(It goes without saying that this is another one of those posts.) Poor self-defeating Pete, trying his best to become the very Draper whose misery's invisible to him. Remember when Pete had hope, and director John Slattery hammered the possibility of it home via reverse shots? How...
Given the amount of pushback, I decided to make my argument about legitimacy and the ACA at much greater length. A lot of people seem to think that this particular.
I've been around the intertubes long enough not to be surprised by the fact that many people are happy to feed trolls whenever an interesting discussion threatens to break out..
Akhil Reed Amar is making sense: I start with the Constitution here. It’s the power to regulate interstate commerce. Is this a regulation? Yes. It’s just a regulation like regulating a well-regulated militia with a mandate. Is this interstate? Yes. And I’ve given you reasons...
Jon Cohn has a good post about a subject that's on a lot of minds given the hostile reception the ACA received at the Supreme Court this week: judicial legitimacy. .
I have some thoughts at CIF about why the challengers to the ACA simultaneously argue that the mandate isn't a regulation of interstate commerce and is so essential to a.
Mark Tushnet is making sense: Now, to Justice Scalia’s performance in the ACA arguments: For my money, the “Jack Benny” exchange in the Medicaid expansion argument is simply embarrassing, another example of Justice Scalia losing control of his own cleverness – to the point where...
There remains zero evidence other than implausible bare assertion that Zimmerman was attacked before he killed the unarmed teenager he was stalking.
Watching last night's Barcelona-Inter Milan draw reminded me, that for many people on this planet, the most frightening sight in the world is a 5'4" Argentinian–born the year after the.