Blog Heap of Links for the day 29 June 2012

Still a BFD [twits the classless buffoon in the White House. Seriously!]

"Under [my] theory, the mandate is not a legal command to buy insurance," Roberts wrote. "Rather, it makes going without insurance just another thing the Government taxes, like buying gasoline or earning income."

Huh?

Yes, Roberts actually wrote those words in what will certainly go down as his most famous and studied work ever. Our Ivy League-credentialed chief justice just wrote that going without insurance can be taxed just like income and buying gas, without realizing that many people do not make income or buy gas.

It must have escaped Roberts that you can avoid making income -- which is ironic, since many of the folks celebrating his ruling avoid just that. And he missed that you can also avoid buying gas. Heck, Obama's energy secretary avoids that. But now, under Roberts's own theory and using Roberts's own words, you and I cannot avoid buying insurance without being taxed as a result. And as we mentioned, our Treasury secretary -- not to mention the former Ways and Means Committee chair -- manages to avoid being taxed.

What’s going on is nothing less than an organized campaign to silence conservative bloggers. The tactics range from annoying to illegal and they allegedly include harassment, posting people’s home addresses, going after family members of bloggers, smear campaigns, calling people’s places of employment, nuisance lawsuits, and SWATTing. … here are just SOME of the allegations that are being made against Brett Kimberlin, Neal Rauhauser, Ron Brynaert, & Nadia Naffe. Some of them are provable. Some can’t be proven unless the Department of Justice or FBI decides to get involved.

“The most successful educational approach to the Negro,” Margaret wrote sometime later, “is through a religious appeal. We do not want word to go out that we want to exterminate the Negro population and the Minister is the man who can straighten out that idea if it ever occurs to any of their more rebellious members.”