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I enjoyed the constitutional analysis of Smith v. Maryland. Its essence is that because Harry Blackmun wrote the decision, it's clearly golden. There's no mention of the fact that the court completely ignored the necessity of the telephone in modern life nor the government's clear assent to the monopoly of Ma Bell. The court ignored these facts so that it could disingenuously argue that customers were "voluntarily" giving their information to the phone company when they had no other option if they wanted to use one of the necessities of life. It really strains credibility to argue that there can be any truly voluntary transactions with a monopoly.

I also enjoyed his cheerleading of austerity fiscal policy in the top article on the page. The bit about "leftist ideologues" in the section containing the author's fervent hope to cut Social Security and Medicare was quite funny. I wasn't aware that Paul Krugman could be described as a leftist ideologue by anyone not on the wingnut right, but there you go.