Top Headline Comments 12-12-12

Happy Three Dozen Day.

Liberals started bleating about "free loaders" as soon as it looked like Michigan's right-to-work law would pass. Heritage's Lachlan Markay explains the myth of the free loader. Generally, there's nothing in law stopping unions from members-only bargaining; they usually make a choice to bargain on behalf of non-members, who they then deride as "free loaders" and demand agency fees from.

The Seventh Circuit shot down Illinois' blanket ban on carrying outside the home. It relied, in part, on the Second Amendment's "bear arms" text to reject Illinois' argument that the "keep" in "keep and bear arms" meant that citizens only had the right to keep arms in the home.

Rand Simberg has an excellent article on property rights in space. It's long.

Meanwhile North Korea successfully launched a satellite.

The Democrats really have done a number on us. Not only have have Democrats seized the mantle of tax cutting, but Obama is demanding that Republicans, not himself and not Democrats, take the lead on picking what are sure to be portrayed as "unpopular" spending cuts.

posted by Gabriel Malor at 06:55 AM

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