If health care reform is so bad for the insurance business, why does an index for health insurers keep rising the closer we get? (Look at 1-yr, esp.) Yet again, some Republicans are all in favor of markets... as long as the market agrees with them. Or, to put it another way -- health insurance stocks are up 90% over the past year. Clearly the market hates the idea of health care reform. {cough}

Ilya Somin writes at that well-known hive of collectivism, The Volokh Conspiracy : If you define “state-created entity” narrowly, then it won’t include most corporations. But if you define it broadly...thus, you’ve demolished the distinction between “public sector” and “private sector,” and invalidated most strict laissez-faire arguments. I guess we really are all socialists now. Well done

"Libertarians Fly to Haiti to Stop Statist Meddling by Rest of World" Insert Yemen, Afghanistan, or Somalia in that headline, and it's just as applicable. Say what one will about communists, at least they were willing to fight for their principles in the Spanish Civil War.