LegalNewsLine: A federal appeals court has sided with 26 states in their challenge to President Barack Obama’s health care reform. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit ruled Friday that a provision of the law that requires individuals to purchase health insurance or face an annual penalty is unconstitutional. The ruling affirmed an earlier decision by U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson of northern Florida.

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? A: You got me. But if it has anything to do with Ron Paul being bugfuck crazy, I’d totally sympathize.

Carter Country, redux! Confidence among U.S. consumers plunged in August to the lowest level since May 1980, adding to concern that weak employment gains and volatility in the stock market will prompt households to retrench. The Thomson Reuters/University of Michigan preliminary index of consumer sentiment slumped to 54.9 from 63.7 the prior month. The gauge was projected to decline to 62, according to the median forecast in a Bloomberg News

I have to say that Romney handled the few digs aimed his well quite deftly. As I noted in an earlier comment, he’s polished and slick, and he’s got the political game down. He’s also been forced to move to the right. But when he sticks in bits like investing in “human capital,” I hear “compassionate conservatism” and I think of spending deals cut with Democrats. Perry is going to

Discuss how much you wish Michele Bachmann and her crazy bigoted eyes would just die die die! (and other things) right here.

It’s a balanced approach to deficit reductionthat we need, you see. Because the American people want compromise. And what better way to insure compromise on spending cuts than to stack this ridiculous “super committee” with some of the biggest spenders in Congress? CNS: House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi (Calif.) announced today that she has assigned Assistant Democratic Leader James E. Clyburn (S.C.), Democratic Caucus Vice Chairman Xavier Becerra (Calif.) and

But, well, fuck them. Obama’s White House knows a photo-op when they see one. I got fifty bucks says this opportunistic, narcissistic, would-be dictator has a tattoo of himself somewhere on his body. Inner thigh, is my guess.

Okay. So I embellished a bit. Sue me.

     “Don’t look at me. I invested in a standalone chest freezer and a pump-action shotgun.” ~ finis ~

Ouch: So there we have it: a large, amoral, brutalised sub-culture of young British people who lack education because they have no will to learn, and skills which might make them employable. They are too idle to accept work waitressing or doing domestic labour, which is why almost all such jobs are filled by immigrants. They have no code of values to dissuade them from behaving anti-socially or, indeed, criminally,