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By George Scoville

“The New Health Care Law: What a Difference a Year Makes,” featuring a keynote address from constitutional attorney and counsel in Florida v. HHS David Rivkin, and panels including economist and former CBO director Douglas Holtz‐Eakin, Cato director of health policy Michael F. Cannon and vice president for legal affairs Roger Pilon, and many more, begins at 1pm Eastern today. Please join us as we stream the event at our new live events hub, or watch on Facebook. If you prefer television, the forum will be broadcast live on C-SPAN 2.
“The next time gun‐control advocates point to violence in Mexico and call for more restrictions on gun sales or a revived assault‐weapons ban, they should consider that the problem may not be with the laws on the books, but with those who enforce them.”
The Bush administration far underestimated the divide between Sunni, Shiite, and Kurdish Iraqis before 2003–the Obama administration may be making the same type of mistake in Libya.
The U.S. military currently far exceeds its legitimate function of national defense:

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