It’s come to this: ObamaCare, an unpopular and partisan bill, needs unconstitutional gimmicks such as the Slaughter Rule in order to pass, and citizens are ready to defend the Constitution against the former constitutional professor who was elected and sworn to uphold that pesky and inconvenient document.
Via Kathryn Jean Lopez and Erick Erickson:
Mark R. Levin, president of Landmark Legal Foundation, today issued a warning to the leadership of the U.S. House of Representatives about the possible use of the so-called “deem and pass,” “self-executing,” or “Slaughter Rule” to enact H.R. 3590, the legislative version of President Obama’s healthcare proposal that has been previously approved by the Senate. If this tactic is employed, Landmark will immediately sue the President, Attorney General Eric Holder and other relevant cabinet members to prevent them from instituting this unconstitutional contrivance.
“Landmark has already prepared a lawsuit that will be filed in federal court the moment the House acts. Such a brazen violation of the core functions of Congress simply cannot be ignored. Article I, Section 7 of the Constitution is clear respecting the manner in which a bill becomes law. Members are required to vote on this bill, not claim they did when they didn’t. The Speaker of the House and her lieutenants are temporary custodians of congressional authority. They are not empowered to do permanent violence to our Constitution.”
Not only is it unconstitutional, the Slaughter Rule is politically disastrous and will be used dearly against congressional Democrats in the midterm elections. And when Obama’s #1 cheerleader, Chris Matthews, agrees on that point, you know it’s time to step back.
Some people shouldn’t drink…ever.
Cartoon by Dana Summers
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Brain scan can read people's thoughts -
In the study, Maguire and her colleagues Martin Chadwick, Demis Hassabis, and Nikolaus Weiskopf showed 10 people each three very short films before brain scanning. Each movie featured a different actress and a fairly similar everyday scenario.
The researchers scanned the participants’ brains while the participants were asked to recall each of the films. The researchers then ran the imaging data through a computer algorithm designed to identify patterns in the brain activity associated with memories for each of the films.
Finally, they showed that those patterns could be identified to accurately predict which film a given person was thinking about when he or she was scanned.
The results imply that the traces of episodic memories are found in the brain, and are identifiable, even over many re-activations, the researchers said.
The results reinforce the findings of a 2008 US study that showed similar scans can determine what images people are seeing based on brain activity.
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You’ve heard about the controversies within the bill, the process about the bill, one or the other. But I don’t know if you have heard that it is legislation for the future, not just about health care for America, but about a healthier America, where preventive care is not something that you have to pay a deductible for or out of pocket. Prevention, prevention, prevention—it’s about diet, not diabetes. It’s going to be very, very exciting.
But we have to pass the bill so that you can find out what is in it, away from the fog of the controversy.
It seems impossible but Sean Penn somehow finds a way to take his zealotry to a whole new level. Sean Penn, a man whose lavish Hollywood lifestyle and artistic accomplishments would never be possible under the brutal Chávez regime, is best pals with the thuggish dictator. And he hates it when others criticize him.
Here’s what Penn said on, you guessed it, Bill Maher’s show (via The Lonely Conservative and Newsbusters):
The collaborative opportunity in Haiti, when you talk about Hugo Chavez, and some of the other people who are demonized [think Castro], and you know, when some of these countries accuse us of an occupation — where I believe this was strictly a humanitarian action by the United States military, and an incredible one – I’m a little sympathetic. Because every day, this elected leader is called a dictator here, and we just accept it! And accept it. And this is mainstream media, who should – truly, there should be a bar by which one goes to prison for these kinds of lies.
This is days after Penn wished his critics would “die screaming of rectal cancer.” Oh and let’s not forget about his nonsensical rambling last night at the Oscars. He’s on quite a roll lately.
There’s something particularly aggravating about people like Sean Penn and Michael Moore. They would NEVER live in either Venezuela or Cuba. They’ll praise evil men like Castro and Chávez, and their respective regimes, while fully enjoying their freedoms and prosperity here in America. They care not one iota about the people living in Venezuela and Cuba where freedom of speech and economic freedom are pretty much nonexistent. Penn and Moore don’t seem to realize that, if they lived in Cuba or Venezuela, their outspoken nature would be severely curtailed if it happened to go against the government, and here in America they are free to spout their moronic drivel.
And that’s yet another reason to love America—that even a dimwit like Penn can say a journalist should be jailed for calling his preferred political leader a dictator, and he has the freedom to say so.
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