MOOSERIDER magazine: Cato Scholar: I’ll Defend the Constitution from Obamacare Anytime, Anywhere - Michael Cannon - Critical Condition on National Review Online

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"Life is a Bungling process and in no way educational." in James M. Cain

Jean Giraudoux who first said, “Only the mediocre are always at their best.”

"the difference between a negotiation and an argument ... an argument being something you can win." Christopher Buckley (Thank You For Smoking)

If you have ten thousand regulations, you destroy all respect for the law. Sir Winston Churchill

"summum ius summa iniuria" ("More laws, more injustice.") Cicero

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Tuesday, April 6, 2010

Cato Scholar: I’ll Defend the Constitution from Obamacare Anytime, Anywhere - Michael Cannon - Critical Condition

Cato Scholar: I’ll Defend the Constitution from Obamacare Anytime, Anywhere [Michael Cannon]

The Center for American Progress positively beams that “the University of Washington held a debate about the constitutionality of the recently passed health care reform bill…[but] none of the panelists at the debate argued that the bill was unconstitutional because the organizers of the event couldn’t find any law professors who held that view.”

The folks at U-Dub obviously didn’t try very hard. My Cato Institute colleague David Kopel compiles a list of law professors (himself included) who believe the law is unconstitutional.

Even better, my Cato colleague Ilya Shapiro (also a law professor), throws down the following challenge to supporters of Obamacare: