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Hobby Lobby: Shooting Fish in a Barrel
Burwell v. Hobby Lobby was a major case – it created new law. Since we now have this precedent, I thought it might be fun to apply it here.

Fun Facts for #Canada150
When you grow up near Detroit, you are basically half Canadian. Canadian television was broadcast to my home - over the air, in the days...


Volume 16: Game Theory and the Nuclear Age: Part II
Somehow – and sometimes despite our best efforts – there was no nuclear holocaust. This is the story of how we avoided it and of whether we’


To Avik Roy: No Longer On My List of Reasonable Conservatives
The big reveal: it is “theoretically possible” that this bill is good for healthcare. His words. I guess it’s theoretically possible that I


Why We Make Laws: Policy and Implementation and Trumpcare
Why, it’s almost as if giving tax cuts to the richest amongst us is the only real goal of this “health care bill.”

Not-Failing-Obamacare: One Chart
There does not appear to be anything innate to Obamacare, sans GOP sabotage, which would prevent individual insurance markets from surviving

In Which I Pick a Fight with the Cato Institute
Are "other costs" significant enough to offset government insurance programs significant advantage in direct medical spending.

Volume 15: Gerrymandering
Politics is a game of power, those who have it and those who want it. But we can hope that this power is used, at least occasionally, to ful


D-Day + 73 years
Waking up this morning, June 6th, something made myself ask the question: how many are still alive who landed in Normandy on D-Day?...


Schrödinger’s Rates: Insurance Markets in the World of Trump
In quantum mechanics, a particle only takes on a property when it is observed. Electrons have spin, either up or down. These are distinct...
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