My latest column for the American Spectator looks at the comical attempts by the MSM to explain away Judge Vinson’s recent ObamaCare ruling. They have reached such a state of desperation that they are peddling the Militia Act of 1792 as a precedent for the individual mandate:
The imminent scholars at the Daily Kos, Salon, the Huffington Post, and more than a few mainstream “news” outlets have exhumed the Militia Act of 1792. This was a law passed by the 2nd Congress enabling the President to call up militias if the country “shall be invaded, or be in imminent danger of invasion from any foreign nation.” Because the act also required each militia member to “provide himself with a good musket or firelock,” these brilliant legal minds have pronounced it the perfect precedent for the ObamaCare’s requirement that every American buy health insurance.
Predictably, even a cursory examination of this argument shows it to have more holes in it than Clyde Barrow’s last V8 Ford. But such is the state of contemporary journalism. Read the rest of the write-up here.
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