A Ballade of Suicide, Circular

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Tuesday May 18, 2010 · 6:57 AM PDT

2010/05/18 · 06:57

(Apologies to G.K. Chesterton)

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Friday May 07, 2010 · 6:37 AM PDT

2010/05/07 · 06:37

(Apologies to William Blake)

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Wednesday May 05, 2010 · 1:31 PM PDT

2010/05/05 · 13:31

(Apologies to Lewis Carroll)

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Tuesday April 27, 2010 · 7:30 AM PDT

2010/04/27 · 07:30

(Apologies to T.S. Eliot)

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Thursday April 15, 2010 · 8:46 AM PDT

2010/04/15 · 08:46

(Apologies to Edgar Allen Poe)

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Wednesday April 14, 2010 · 5:24 AM PDT

2010/04/14 · 05:24

(Apologies to Percy Bysshe Shelley)

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Tuesday April 13, 2010 · 8:55 AM PDT

2010/04/13 · 08:55

(With apologies to Alfred, Lord Tennyson.)

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Monday April 12, 2010 · 7:24 AM PDT

2010/04/12 · 07:24

(With apologies to John Keats)

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Tuesday April 06, 2010 · 6:58 AM PDT

2010/04/06 · 06:58

A Texas man faces felony charges after filing a document in a federal court theatening to use deadly force at a women's clinic to stop an abortion. Source. Erlyndon Joseph Lo of Plano, Texas has been arrested and charged with federal crimes after filing a complaint in a supposed class action lawsuit against the Supreme Court, seeking some $999 trillion in damages and seeking to force the Supreme Court to overturn Roe v. Wade. Lo's complaint named a specific clinic at which he would take a human life, purporting "My religious beliefs include the beliefs that an individual is alive at the moment of conception, abortion is murder and is the worst murder of all murders possible because these babies are completely defenseless, and I am entitled under my religious beliefs to use deadly force if necessary to save the innocent life of another". The FBI and local authorities provided security at the named clinic until Lo was apprehended. No one was injured.

This time.

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Friday March 26, 2010 · 4:34 AM PDT

2010/03/26 · 04:34

Dear Senator Webb and Senator Warner:

Gentlemen, you rock! You have made me proud, and you have brought honor and dignity back to the Commonwealth in a week in which our Teabagger Attorney General -- with the quiet acquiescence of our equally retrograde Governor -- has sought to turn serious constitutional jurisprudence into a laughably transparent partisan stunt. I said some bad things about you, when it appeared you might disappoint. I take it all back and humbly beg your forgiveness.

NoVa Boy

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Thursday March 25, 2010 · 5:47 AM PDT

2010/03/25 · 05:47

It is perhaps a common mis-perception of the laypublic that Supreme Court Justices are, for all intents and purposes, absolute free agents. Understandable. Justices cannot be fired or rejected at the polls in the next election, and there is no higher level of review. Their decisions are final and they, strictly speaking, can decide however they please.

But, in practice Justices are constrained, by centuries of precedent, by self-imposed rules (called Canons of Judicial Review), and by - quite frankly - the enormous gravity of the power they wield. Despite being wrong sometimes, some them frequently, they are to a man and to a woman serious, sober and thoughtful jurists. They do not act arbitrarily or capriciously even when they do err.

First, and foremost, that is why I'm not worried that the Supreme Court might even possibly overturn any part of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act ("PPACA"). But follow me below to find out more.

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Wednesday March 24, 2010 · 3:53 AM PDT

2010/03/24 · 03:53

Not sure if this is really a diary, but hey . . . sue me (I could use the business).

So, in light of the slavering, wild-eyed declarations that Congress has no power under the Commerce Clause to regulate insurance, much less mandate insurance (yes, yes, I know the "mandate is really just an excise tax, but let's play along with the wingnuts for a moment), let's see just how much the average Kossack knows (or can guess) on the matter.

Poll

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The power to regulate the business of insurance under the Commerce Clause has been the law of the land since . . .

27 votes Vote Now!

The power to regulate the business of insurance under the Commerce Clause has been the law of the land since . . .

Never. NoVa Boy made all of this up.

5 votes

1895. In the first round of trust-busting cases.

5 votes

1907. A response to Teddy R's crusade against trusts.

5 votes

1917. Following the Clayton Antitrust Act.

5 votes

1944. A legacy of the New Deal Courts.

7 votes

1980. This smacks of Burger.

0 votes

1994. Limited almost immediately by U.S. v. Lopez.

0 votes

2006. An early Roberts case, when he was still pretending to be non-partisan.

0 votes

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