Jerrod Ankenman (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} hgfalling) wrote,@ 2008-02-27 10:58:00 |
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One for each of them...
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensm
Basically, Hillary Clinton said that insurance companies discriminating on the basis of preexisting medical conditions is "unconstitutional." In the same way, it seems that if lenders discriminate against borrowers based on their ability to pay back their loans, this too would be unconstitutional? Ah, well, it seems they didn't do this "unconstitutional" thing, so now we should dissolve freely entered into contracts.
http://volokh.com/posts/1203389334.shtm
Barack Obama (while in the Illinois State Senate and running for a seat in the US House) proposed a gun control law with the following provisions:
--Proposed to make it a felony to have your gun stolen from your residence and later used to harm another person if that gun was not "securely stored" in your house.
--Restricting gun purchases to one a month.
--Banning the sale of guns at gun shows except for "antiques."
--Banning police departments from reselling used guns, even if the funds from such sales are used to buy guns that are more modern, better, etc.
--Banned gun dealers from operating except from a storefront and banned stores from operating five miles from a park or school.
This last one is awesome. First of all, I can kind of understand the reasoning behind the "selling drugs near schools" thing, but guns? Do people really think that having a gun store three miles away from a park puts the kids at the park in danger? Of course it doesn't. However, if you look at these maps:
http://ryjones.wordpress.com/2008/0
http://ryjones.wordpress.com/2008/0
The intention to "circumvent the Second Amendment" seems clear to me.
http://campaignfreedom.org/blog/id.5
John McCain's campaign might be in violation of campaign finance laws; at least the DNC has filed a complaint. Basically, it seems that last year when McCain's campaign was on the rocks, he applied for federal funds to run his campaign. Later he got a $3 million loan from somebody else, which he kinda-sorta-but-not-really secured with the federal money. Additionally, he kinda-sorta used his federal funding qualification to get on the Ohio ballot, which is apparently some big, hard, expensive process. Now he's winning and has plenty of money thanks to the New York Times, and wants to withdraw from the federal system, because remaining in it will limit him to spending $4 million between now and the party convention.
The point here is that in the general election, Obama is going to try and paint McCain as part of the corrupt establishment, despite his words. This kind of stuff just creates the appearance of lawyer-sanctioned-impropriety that even if McCain isn't in violation of the law, you just don't want floating around you.
Also, McCain has been pandering to social conservatives, which makes me mad.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensm
Basically, Hillary Clinton said that insurance companies discriminating on the basis of preexisting medical conditions is "unconstitutional." In the same way, it seems that if lenders discriminate against borrowers based on their ability to pay back their loans, this too would be unconstitutional? Ah, well, it seems they didn't do this "unconstitutional" thing, so now we should dissolve freely entered into contracts.
http://volokh.com/posts/1203389334.shtm
Barack Obama (while in the Illinois State Senate and running for a seat in the US House) proposed a gun control law with the following provisions:
--Proposed to make it a felony to have your gun stolen from your residence and later used to harm another person if that gun was not "securely stored" in your house.
--Restricting gun purchases to one a month.
--Banning the sale of guns at gun shows except for "antiques."
--Banning police departments from reselling used guns, even if the funds from such sales are used to buy guns that are more modern, better, etc.
--Banned gun dealers from operating except from a storefront and banned stores from operating five miles from a park or school.
This last one is awesome. First of all, I can kind of understand the reasoning behind the "selling drugs near schools" thing, but guns? Do people really think that having a gun store three miles away from a park puts the kids at the park in danger? Of course it doesn't. However, if you look at these maps:
http://ryjones.wordpress.com/2008/0
http://ryjones.wordpress.com/2008/0
The intention to "circumvent the Second Amendment" seems clear to me.
http://campaignfreedom.org/blog/id.5
John McCain's campaign might be in violation of campaign finance laws; at least the DNC has filed a complaint. Basically, it seems that last year when McCain's campaign was on the rocks, he applied for federal funds to run his campaign. Later he got a $3 million loan from somebody else, which he kinda-sorta-but-not-really secured with the federal money. Additionally, he kinda-sorta used his federal funding qualification to get on the Ohio ballot, which is apparently some big, hard, expensive process. Now he's winning and has plenty of money thanks to the New York Times, and wants to withdraw from the federal system, because remaining in it will limit him to spending $4 million between now and the party convention.
The point here is that in the general election, Obama is going to try and paint McCain as part of the corrupt establishment, despite his words. This kind of stuff just creates the appearance of lawyer-sanctioned-impropriety that even if McCain isn't in violation of the law, you just don't want floating around you.
Also, McCain has been pandering to social conservatives, which makes me mad.
