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This Week’s Sloppy, Shameful ObamaCare Ruling Provides Wake-Up Call to American Voters

By Timothy H. Lee
Thursday, November 10 2011

“The right to be free from federal regulation is not absolute, and yields to the imperative that Congress be free to forge national solutions to national problems…” Somehow, that absurdity masquerading as legal reasoning actually survived the editing process, and maintained its prominence within the written opinion of Judge Laurence Silberman of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in his decision this week upholding ObamaCare. Judge Silberman’s opinion truly is preposterous and bizarre. It does, however, at least provide a…

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