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Wednesday, January 1, 2014

Miscellany: 1/01/14 Happy New Year!

Courtesy of Elsoar.com
Quote of the Day
Patience has its limits. 
Take it too far, and 
it's cowardice.
George Jackson

Obama is Simply Unconstitutional

What's your favorite impeachable moment of The (Unconstitutional) One? Ilya Shapiro found it hard to narrow his list to 10 (ObamaCare alone could fill out a top 10 on its own: the deferment of the employer mandate and the extension of subsidies to federal exchanges in states opting out of the exchanges  are just a couple of obvious ones). What about the illegal IRS targeting of  the Tea Party? Like or it not, Obama decided to come up with his own Dream Act Executive Order when he couldn't push his legislation through Congress...



Florida's Drug Testing of Welfare Recipients Declared  Unconstitutional: Thumbs UP!

Personally I don't drink or smoke anything and don't think much of the judgment of people whom lack self-restraint. That being said, I believe our war on drugs has been bad policy, resulting in an ungodly number of people imprisoned. On the other hand, although I dislike welfare programs as morally hazardous, it struck me as the drug testing was little more than a populist attack  against welfare recipients. In fact, less than 1 recipient out of 20 in testing to date flagged as positive, lower than the general population. A federal judge ruled it a violation of the Fourth Amendment.

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Courtesy of Glenn McCoy and Townhall
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Musical Interlude: My iPod Shuffle Series

Elton John, "Healing Hands"