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Madison on National Health Care Reform

Here is the letter I wrote that appeared in the Los Angeles Times in response to Erwin Chemerinsky’s article on the constitutionality of health care reform.  Chemerinsky teaches at UC Irvine’s law school.

Chemerinsky argues that according to Supreme Court precedent, the proposed health care reform bills will be considered constitutional.

Unfortunately, he is probably right.

The author of our Constitution, however, would disagree. In Federalist 45, Madison writes, “the powers delegated by the proposed Constitution to the federal government, are few and defined.” …

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LibertyWeek 34: Michelle Minton Conquers the World

LibertyWeek 34: Michelle Minton Conquers the World

Your regular hosts Richard Morrison and Cord Blomquist are joined by special guest co-host Michelle Minton for Episode 34 of the LibertyWeek podcast. We begin by finding that Twitter has conquered every aspect of society, the White House is waging war on the economy and New Yorkers are defending themselves against beer taxes. We next investigate the questionable management of the AIG bailout in Scandal Watch and handicap Chicago’s chances for snagging the 2016 summer games in Olympic News.

Congratulations to FreeStateNH (The Free…

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