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Before you go too far with your Republican 5-minute hate, remember which party established Commissions and Czars to help track-and-prosecute copyright (monopoly) infringers and downloaders, for their Hollywood and Record company friends.

That would be the D's.
Both parties suck.
"We don't have two parties - we have ONE party. The Big Government party with two branches - both of which want to limit your person and your liberty." - Judge Napolitano, http://freedomwatchonfox.com/

>>>>>if you don't like the way an artist offers their work for sale
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>>he belies that he is a Libertarian

Most libertarians don't believe in copyright (grants of monopoly). They don't think anybody has a Natural Right to be given a ~100 year monopoly by the government. Or as Jefferson said: "Stable ownership is the gift of social law, and is given late in the progress of society. It would be curious then, if an idea could, of natural right, be claimed in exclusive and stable property. If nature has made any one thing less susceptible than all others of exclusive property, it is the action of the thinking power called an idea, which an individual may exclusively possess as long as he keeps it to himself; but the moment it is divulged, it forces itself into the possession of every one..... Inventions then cannot, in nature, be a subject of property."

>>Fox News Libertarian.

This should not surprise you. Judge Andrew Napolitano is a Libertarian, hates the Rs and Ds equally, but he's on fox news. http://freedomwatchonfox.com/

>>>most maniacal, greedy, authoritarian-minded can get into power.

THIS is why the US is supposed to have separation of powers (federalism) between the Member States and the Union government, so no one maniac can become too powerful, but over time many of us have forgotten that basic principal.

BTW Judge Napolitano calls this "Libido Dominandi" which is a phrase he borrowed from the Romans - lust to dominate - http://freedomwatchonfox.com/

Benjamin Franklin called it avarice and ambition - desire for wealth and power.

Glenn Beck has also ripped into Bush and the current Republicans several times, although not as often as Libertarian Napolitano.

I try to catch his show every week by going here: http://freedomwatchonfox.com/

>>>Please explain how mandatory health insurance is "clearly unconstitutional", because all of the lawyers I speak to (which are many) have somehow managed to miss that argument.
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Google has many lawyers who says its uncosntitutional: http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=mandatory+health+insurance+is+unconstitutional

And here's Judge Napolitano's opinion. He repeats in almost every show that he considers mandatory *anything* to be unconstitutional, unless specifically granted by the Constitution's list of power. http://www.freedomwatchonfox.com/

And then there's the Constitution itself, which makes clear mandatory health insurance, if it even exists as a power of the government, belongs to the STATES not Washington D.C. See Amendment 10.

The first three results for your search include two news sites and one conspiracy theory site. The fourth result is factcheck.org which declares it a novel issue.

And the argument has been made successfully for a great number of federal programs in the interest of "the pursuit of happiness", among other provisions in the constitution. This is not new, and is well established in precedent. In fact virtually all government bodies are justified by similar arguments where not explicitly defined in the constitution and its amendments.

And I doubt a Fox News legal analyst is the most reliable or un-biased source for information here. As a judge, Neapolitano worked on a state level, and has no federal experience.

Finally even if the law were possibly unconstitutional, it is still the duty of the Congress to pass it if they see fit, and for the Judicial Branch to review it if challenges are brought.

>>>Please explain how mandatory health insurance is "clearly unconstitutional", because all of the lawyers I speak to (which are many) have somehow managed to miss that argument.
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Google has many lawyers who says its uncosntitutional: http://www.google.com/search?client=opera&rls=en&q=mandatory+health+insurance+is+unconstitutional

And here's Judge Napolitano's opinion. He repeats in almost every show that he considers mandatory *anything* to be unconstitutional, unless specifically granted by the Constitution's list of power. http://www.freedomwatchonfox.com/

And then there's the Constitution itself, which makes clear mandatory health insurance, if it even exists as a power of the government, belongs to the STATES not Washington D.C. See Amendment 10.

My favorite lawyer is Judge Napolitano.

I love his daily show and how he explains the laws - http://freedomwatchonfox.com/