Daily Blend: Monday, March 29, 2010

Okay, so yesterday turned out to be a bust. On the bright side, for today, we’ve got: rain, rain and more rain! Vive le Québec …

• “But the explanation is plain: the health care bill is not the main source of this anger and never has been. It’s merely a handy excuse. The real source of the over-the-top rage of 2010 is the same kind of national existential reordering that roiled America in 1964.” Excellent op-ed in the New York Times by Frank Rich analyzing the Right’s deranged hysteria before and since the passage of ObamaCare.

• Why bother with a Fourth Amendment if cops can just sweet-talk their way into suspects’ homes and start searching for illegal activity without a warrant?
  (via The Agitator)

• Just clowning around.

• The kind of policing I reckon just about every reader and non-shitty writer would approve of.
  (via @ebertchicago)

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