Trivial Facts Are Often The Best Hints

The Affordable Care Act's Requirement That Certain Individuals Pay A Financial Penalty For Not Obtaining Health Insurance May Reasonably Be Characterized As A Tax.

I'm Not Sure That It's Right To View This As Excluding A Particular Group. When The Institution Of Marriage Developed Historically, People Didn't Get Around And Say, 'let's Have This Institution, But Let's Keep Out Homosexuals.' The Institution Developed To Serve Purposes That, By Their Nature, Didn't Include Homosexual Couples.

There Is A Risk Of Death Associated With Donating A Piece Of Liver. It's About One In 500 For The Risk Of Death. The Risk Of Death Of Donating A Kidney Is About One In 3000, So This Is A Riskier Operation Than Donating A Kidney. The Stakes Are Usually Higher For The Recipient Of The Transplant Because Unlike Kidney Failure, Where You Have A Dialysis Machine, In Liver Failure We Don't Have That Kind Of Machine That Allows A Patient To Survive Until They Can Get A Cadaver Organ.

Trivial Facts Are Often The Best Hints To What Is Going On.

The States Are Separate And Independent Sovereigns. Sometimes They Need To Act Like It.