Wall St. Journal: “More Provisions of Health-Care Measure Also Begin This Year. A raft of new federal and local laws ring in the new year, governing a span of topics from health care and finance to texting, guns and smoking. Among the most far-reaching pieces of legislation is the new federal health-care law”
Arizona Republic: “An unlikely Arizona political trio stood outside the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday and expressed confidence that the nation’s high court would uphold an Arizona law that punishes employers who knowingly hire illegal immigrants.”
Investors Business Daily: “Congress has OK’d nearly $5 billion for black and Native American farmers who claim they were discriminated against. This is redistribution of wealth in the name of environmental and social justice. Reparations have begun. . . . Pigford v. Glickman was a class action lawsuit against the Department of Agriculture alleging discrimination against black farmers in its allocation of farm loans between 1983 and 1987. . . . One of the fruits of this lame-duck session has been the approval of $1.15 billion to the black farmers and $3.4 billion to the American Indians to settle the two lawsuits. At last count, more than 94,000 black farmers have signed up for payments under the settlement.”
“At last count, more than 94,000 black farmers have signed up for payments under the settlement. Based on census data, however, there were only 33,000 or so black farmers in existence during the period in question. Based on that number and the number of denied applications, the department had originally estimated that only 2,000 such claims would be filed.”
Investors Business Daily: “Bias: When leaked e-mails exposed the global warming hype to be a concocted fraud, the ‘newspaper of record’ was in high dudgeon. When stolen classified information appears on its front page, that’s another story. Given its track record of exposing U.S. secrets on its front pages, we may be thankful that the New York Times did not have the plans to the Normandy invasion before D-Day.”
NYT on why it did not print the climategate documents: “The documents appear to have been acquired illegally and contained all manner of private information and statements that were never intended for the public eye so they won’t be posted here.” New York Times, November 20, 2009.
NYT on why it is printing the leaked U.S. secret documents: “The articles published today and coming days are based on thousands of United States Embassy cables the daily reports from the field intended for the eyes of senior policy makers in Washington. . . . Times believes that the documents serve all-important public interest illuminating the goals successes compromises and frustrations of American diplomacy in the way that other accounts cannot match.” New York Times, November 29, 2010.
The Volokh Conspiracy: “Newsday reports: ‘A group of teens spotted Sunday evening slapping up stickers along a Bellmore street