There is no silver lining: Justice Roberts’ despicable Obamacare decision

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  July 2nd at 07:34 AM  | 

In March of 1937, in West Coast Hotel Co. v. Parrish erstwhile conservative Justice Owen Roberts suddenly began voting to support New Deal legislation. His change of heart was the beginning of what became known as “The switch in time that saved nine.” His sudden reversal was in direct response to FDR’s threat to pack the Court in the face of the Court’s resistance to | Read More »

Enough with the lawyers in Congress!

By: imperfectamerica (Diary)  |  November 1st at 09:10 PM  | 

How many times have you been watching a commercial for this or that medicine with images of a couple strolling through a bucolic meadow or scenes of a depressed woman who’s suddenly happy again only to be bombarded with a rapid-fire litany of potential side effects so scary that they would have kept Atilla the Hun from ever leaving the neighborhood. And there are other | Read More »