some recaps and perhaps some repeats, but surprisigly I doubt it

At Memeorandum, a roundup of union-protest thuggery.

Union Thug: ‘I’ll F#*k You in the Ass, You Faggot’

from Looking at the Left

At this point, an aggressive woman with a purple SEIU shirt assailed Robinson with a flurry of insults.

“That’s your problem. You’re an entrepreneur, so you don’t work. You don’t know what work is until you get into an educational area. … You’re uneducated, unethical, immoral, and you don’t know what life is. That’s your problem. Why don’t you go behind that fence where you belong? Why don’t you go back with your own kind?” She said this indicating towards the bottom of the Capitol Steps, where a couple of hundred tea partiers were gathered listening to speeches.

Looks like Wacky Qaddaffi is taking a page from our President Obama:

Gaddafi Offers ‘Stimulus’ In Bid To Stay In Power

That's the Federal Court score on Obamacare care so far.  Two courts have sided with the Donks, essentially admitting that Congress can do anything it wants under the Commerce Clause. Two other courts have said that theConstitution limits thepower of government, that the Comerce Clause, along with the 10th Amendement mean what they say.  And then there's the DC Circuit.  According to Judge Kessler the Federal Government are now Thought Police. 

PROF. JACOBSON: All Your Thoughts Are Belong To Us. This is what the defense of ObamaCare has become. More here.

off topic but applicable Pete Suderman over at Reason Magazine points out some interesting insights from Forbes.  

Avik Roy responds to the argument that the “free-rider” problem in health care justifies the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate to purchase health insurance:

The “free rider” problem is not inherent to the nature of health care. It’s a problem that was 100% created by unwise federal policy. As we’ve discussed before, the “free rider” problem, to the degree it even exists, is an artifact of a 1986 act of Congress, the Emergency Medical Treatment and Active Labor Act (EMTALA), which forced hospitals to provide uncompensated emergency care to anyone who needed it.

The idea that you can pass an unconstitutional law to remedy a problem created by a prior act of Congress makes no sense. The more straightforward remedy is to repeal the old law, or fully fund it. If a dumb federal law drove New York’s newspapers into bankruptcy, would it be okay for the government to force you to subscribe to the New York Post?

Read Jacob Sullum on free-riding, cost-shifting and the EMTLA here.

from the lovely, brave and talented Pamele Geller

If a small group of men were always regarded as guilty, in any clash with any other group, regardless of the issues or circumstances involved, would you call it persecution? If this group were always made to pay for the sins, errors, or failures of any other group, would you call that persecution? If this group had to live under a silent reign of terror, under special laws, from which all other people were immune, laws which the accused could not grasp or define in advance and which the accuser could interpret in any way he pleased—would you call that persecution? If this group were penalized, not for its faults, but for its virtues, not for its incompetence, but for its ability, not for its failures, but for its achievements, and the greater the achievement, the greater the penalty—would you call that persecution?

If your answer is “yes”—then ask yourself what sort of monstrous injustice you are condoning, supporting, or perpetrating. That group is the American businessmen . . .

Every ugly, brutal aspect of injustice toward racial or religious minorities is being practiced toward businessmen.. . . Every movement that seeks to enslave a country, every dictatorship or potential dictatorship, needs some minority group as a scapegoat which it can blame for the nation’s troubles and use as a justification of its own demands for dictatorial powers. In Soviet Russia, the scapegoat was the bourgeoisie; in Nazi Germany, it was the Jewish people; in America, it is the businessmen.

Ayn Rand, “America’s Persecuted Minority: Big Business,” Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal, 44

Was reading and article on THE DAYS AND NIGHTS of an NBA groupie 

over at GQ .... curtesy of Glenn Reynolds.  HIS reader Julian Ferry points out

I wondered as I read the article, what class of folks can afford the time and money to jet around the country with cases of top shelf booze, just hoping for a chance to party with NBA players and rappers?

A bus driver, a police officer, a subway conductor, and a 911 operator…..

Public employees!

today's reports of vilence from the left:

we'll start with my fave from yesterday: SEIU Protesters Call Gay Black Tea Partier ‘Stupid, Uninformed’ and Ask Him If He Has Any Children He ‘Claims’ (Video)

Union Thug Attacks FreedomWorks’ Tabitha Hale

Blogger Robert Cox gets a death threat.

and these folowups: 

UNION VIOLENCE VS. THE TEA PARTY: The News Hounds That Didn’t Bark.

Note that the Newspaper Guild is part of the Communications Workers of America.

And guess what: The thug who assaulted Tabitha Hale was from the Communications Workers of America. So it’s no surprise that we’re not seeing as much reportage as the story might otherwise warrant.

UPDATE: From Tabitha Hale: “They’ve been comparing themselves to the Egyptians ousting Mubarak. Looks like they’re not too far off, given that they share the tendency to assault women with cameras.” And to have those assaults covered up by the press.

Daniel Pletka offers a bipartisan list of American leaders using "unacceptable" to mean "we fully accept what has happened but want everyone to think we don't."

—President Obama on Egypt (2/4/11): “Attacks on reporters are unacceptable, attacks on human rights activists are unacceptable, attacks on peaceful protesters are unacceptable.”

—Obama on militant safe havens in Pakistan (11/8/10): “We will continue to insist to Pakistan’s leaders that terrorist safe-havens within their borders are unacceptable, and that the terrorists behind the Mumbai attacks be brought to justice.”

—Admiral Mike Mullen on Iran acquiring nuclear weapons (8/26/2010): “Iran is a particularly difficult issue. Their achieving a nuclear weapon capability is unacceptable and incredibly destabilizing.”

—Hillary Clinton on North Korea sinking a South Korean ship (5/25/10): “This was an unacceptable provocation by North Korea, and the international community has a responsibility and a duty to respond.”

—Hillary Clinton on Iran acquiring nuclear weapons (3/22/10): “In addition to threatening Israel, a nuclear-armed Iran would embolden its terrorist clientele and would spark an arms race that could destabilize the region. This is unacceptable. It is unacceptable to the United States. It is unacceptable to Israel. It is unacceptable to the region and the international community. So let me be very clear: The United States is determined to prevent Iran from acquiring nuclear weapons.”

—Hillary Clinton on Eritrea supporting Somali militants (9/6/09): “It is long past time for Eritrea to cease and desist its support of al-Shabab and to start being a productive rather than a destabilizing neighbor. We are making it very clear that their actions are unacceptable. We intend to take action if they do not cease.”