Tuesday, July 21. 2009
The O admits he is not familiar with the House health care bill he is selling.
It all just gets stranger and stranger. And desperate. This stuff is too important to people to rush through.
Image above from Iowahawk, of course
I heard on the radio news today "The US is the only of the advanced industrial nations without government medicine." I wondered "What's wrong with that?" No NHS, Please. We're Americans.
The O's Green Jobs Czar: We stole stuff. Another honest fellow in DC.
Statistics on the sun and sunspots.
I'm not dead yet. Via Insty:
ANOTHER HEALTHCARE BILL NUGGET: “The section, titled ‘Advanced Care Planning Consultation’ requires senior citizens to meet at least every 5 years with a doctor or nurse practitioner to discuss dying with dignity.”
Does dying of a heart attack on the tennis court qualify as "dignified"? I think it should, but it does rudely inconvenience the remaining three - assuming it's doubles.
The demographic death of Japan
The Great Uniter. (h/t, Driscoll)
Wilkinson on Peter Singer on medical care rationing
The AMA betrays its profession. Civil servants cannot be professionals because a key part of being a "professional" is being beholden to your own conscience and judgement, not outisde forces.
Another Sen. Dodd update. Just the usual sleazy, lying, greedy pol.
WSJ: The Obama Agenda Bogs Down. Democrats got what they wanted in the stimulus bill. The public knows it.
Good example of why Conservatism sucks right now.
George Will on why it ain't smart to soak the rich
The O is slipping faster on key issues. Duh. Guy is an amateur, and his issues are nuts.
Corzine is gonna lose the election. He is dead meat, but nobody can fix NJ's mess.
The WH hides the budget mess. Wait 'til everybody's on vacation.
From Front Page:
If priorities are to be believed, the priority the Obama administration has placed at the top could become a flop. Political pollster Daniel Yankelovich says that Americans are slowly leaving the “wishful stage” of the health care debate, when polling data showed broad support for a larger government role in medicine. Yankelovich predicts “in the next few weeks, when voters discover what national health care will cost and how it could affect their own care, romance will give way to reality.” Studies already show the legislation's eroding popularity, as citizens find out the problems inherent in socialized medicine, the tax increases necessary to finance it, and the deception politicians use to inflate the number of uninsured Americans.
Watch out, NYH-Presbyterian, Mass General, and Mayo Clinic. Via Viking:
Large urban teaching hospitals - including hospitals that are the biggest engines of the Boston economy - are facing the loss of hundreds of millions of dollars under national health care reform as rural lawmakers on Capitol Hill wage a fight to win more federal cash for their local institutions.
Monday, July 20. 2009
She read the draft bill so you won't have to. Medical policy wonk Betsy McCaughey weighs in on ObamaCare.
John at Powerline speculates that journalists are dumber than the average bear. I think John overestimates the brains, curiosity, and skepticism of the average bear (tho maybe not of the average Powerline reader), but I do get the point: professional journalists are supposed to convey useful and accurate info for the rest of us, with enough of the inside baseball to help us understand the game that is being played.
Statistics, math and science tend to be among their weak points. It is easy to be a half-competent writer without understanding in depth what you are writing about. We prove that here, daily. However, we do try to link to those who might have a clue.
What worries me more is the power, ignorance, perfidy, and manipulativeness of politicians.
Via Drudge:
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RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $351,807 FOR 'REPLACE AND UPGRADE THE DUMBWAITER'...
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,562,568 FOR 'MOZZARELLA CHEESE'...
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $5,708,260 FOR 'PROCESS CHEESE'...
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $16,784,272 FOR 'CANNED PORK'...
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $1,444,100 FOR 'REPAIR DOOR BLDG 5112'...
RECOVERY.GOV // AWARDED: $541,119 FOR 'INSTALL TRAFFIC SIGNAL'...
I would happily repair that door for half the price.
Neal Cavuto on Imus right now discusses the car salesman trick of "rushing a deal." "Don't let them leave the salesroom without signing." "Now or never," "A one-day-only deal" - all the tricks.
He discusses car sales tricks, and says that is what the O administration does with legislation. I tend to agree.
 When pols run car companies. Betsy Related: Will small be beautiful for GM? WSJ
Sacha Baron Cohen will kill Bruno
NYT considers foundation support for news. Buzz Machine wonders whether there is a new model for news collaboration.
Russia's Got Talent
Who says there's no competition in medical insurance?
Vote us the medical plan Congress has. Details at Surber
ACORN take note: Zelaya had vote figured in advance
ObamaCare would cover 12 million illegals
Ex-cons counsel cons-to-be
Rush on Sarah:
Name for me any Republican or conservative who has had a 72% approval rating in the party after a year of trashing by the State-Run Media and the Democrat Party. Name for me one Republican candidate who has maintained a 72% approval rating while their life and their career has been under assault for the purpose of destruction, which is the case with Sarah Palin.
Do I understand cardinal vs. ordinal understandings of well-being?
And that's the way it wasn't. Driscoll with a good history of "the news". Related, Wizbang is not praising Cronkite
Inside the monstrous ObamaCare bureaucracy. Michelle
"We gotta do it now" doesn't always work the second time around.
Add it to the list: global warming causes squid. Me likes to eat squid, lightly sauteed with white wine, butter, olive oil, parsley and garlic.
"By then it's too late." Insty:
HEALTHCARE UPDATE, from the Los Angeles Times: “The president knows his keystone program is in deep trouble and losing momentum. That’s why his organization is sending out all those e-mails and organizing local discussion groups to mobilize grassroots support and why he drags the subject into everything he talks about. . . . Obama’s current problem is actually crumbling support among Democrats, dozens of whom are beginning to waver over the scale of such spending, whether some of it eventually gets covered by savings or not. They know that conveniently-predicted future government savings have a way in Washington of not actually ever materializing. But by then it’s too late.”
Sunday, July 19. 2009
From a harshly critical op-ed by Matt Welch in the WaPo:
What the new president has not quite grasped is that the American people understand both irony and cognitive dissonance. Instead, Obama has mistaken his personal popularity for a national predilection toward emergency-driven central planning. He doesn't get that Americans prefer the slower process of building political consensus based on reality, and at least a semblance of rational deliberation rather than one sky-is-falling legislative session after another.
Saturday, July 18. 2009
Bar exam. Oh boy. For Rules of Evidence, it's 70% exceptions to The Rules, after you learn The Rules. We did Wills and Estates yesterday. It caused us to rethink our wills.
We parents of the graduate Law Student are having fun learning this stuff. It's sort-of crazy, and sort-of not. Good rule of thumb: stay clear of The Law if possible. It seems to be its own wacko universe, and not for amateurs.
 Cheetos-flavored lip balm
1925 Bugatti from Lago Maggiore
Ten weird ways we deal with the dead
Iran: still in turmoil
The CIT story: It's a big deal for many businesses
Is it Pelosi Payback?
The Sun of Songun Shedding Its Rays All over the World
How the trillion-dollar Federal takeover works. Pajamas. It is a stealth bill designed to eliminate private choice in medical insurance, and thus to eliminate choice in insurance plans.
A Lib says pass health care now: do the rationing later:
Do remember that even if reform ends up without game-changing cost control, it may create political conditions that make future cost control more likely. That seems to be happening in Massachusetts, which enacted sweeping coverage expansions a few years ago.
Via Viking:
Nowhere in the Democrats’ plan do they explain why 2.1 million Americans should have to pay to reform the health-care system for 300 million Americans, nor does the Post explain why 2.1 million Americans should have to pay for the massive deficits created by Democrats in Congress and Barack Obama. Both accept the notion that government exists to transfer wealth without explaining at all the basis for a free government to do so. If we need massive health-care reform, then the costs should be borne by everyone - and when that happens, you will find massive health-care reform to be a lot less popular than when Obama, Rangel, & Co try to pass it off as something for nothing.
The abortion mandate in the health care plan. What does abortion have to do with health? LaShawn also wonders about that. I thought having babies was healthy.
Hands off my Healthcare protests across the country
The Massachusetts "health" plan. Watch Docs run away
As goes California...
Paul Rahe: The Road to Soft Despotism, Part 2
Totten: Uncertainty in Iraq
Friday, July 17. 2009
Insty:
MICKEY KAUS: Smug self-styled wonks will kill health care yet. “WaPo’s Ezra Klein decrees ‘rules’ for those who would use the CBO’s damning analysis ‘against the existing health-care reform proposals’–they ‘must,’ he says, endorse some combination of cost-cutting proposals from a list he provides. Huh? Even as mock hubris (and it’s hard to tell) this makes no sense. Who said opponents have to be for more cost-cutting? Why can’t Republicans say to Dems a) You said your plans would bend the cost curve down. Instead they increase costs. The status quo would be better than your plans. Vote no. b) You said your plans would bend the cost curve down. Instead they increase costs. Why should we believe anything else you say? … That isn’t what I would say, but it’s not an illogical or inappropriate response.” Plus, “Klein goes on, of course, to re-endorse the very treatment-restricting form of cost-cutting that is scaring people away from the Dem plans.”
Woops. I thought this was about my Vet bills, which far exceed my medical bills with the dogs, the wife's horses, etc. When will the government care about the health of my animals? I cannot get insurance for any of them.
We will tolerate no rationing of medical care for our beloved animals.
Amazingly, I hear Bob Beckel on Sean saying that nobody can afford their kids' regular medical check ups. WTH?Why should I take care of Bob Beckel's kids?
I will take care of his kids when he takes care of my cars.
 Head of CBO rips Dem medical care plan. They overreached.
At Althouse, a commenter re the rushing of the Dem plan:
This is arguably the fourth time that Obama and the Democrats have pulled this off, if they indeed do succeed this time. The previous examples were: the "stimulus" bill; the budget; and cap and trade. The "stimulus" bill was rammed through the House less than 24 hours after being disclosed - and then Cap and Trade was rammed through based on amendments to the bill that had not be consolidated, so no one, even those running the House, actually knew what was in it.
It was one thing to do this when the "stimulus" was urgent. Of course, we find that most of the "stimulus" won't be spent for years to come, but... Again, Cap and Trade was absolutely urgent, since if Congress didn't act immediately, parts of New York City might (if you believed Al Gore) be under water by the end of the century. But health care reform? Someone might die if it isn't enacted immediately, a victim of some evil insurance company denying a worthy claim. (Of course, Obama doesn't mention that the difference is that under a government payer system, those denied treatments have no recourse).
Related: Make Congress sign up for the government plan. Related: A pdf of the House Bill, with other info, at Classical
Biden: We need to spend more money so we don't go bankrupt. Ummm, will that work for me too?
A reckless Congress will take US taxes higher than France's
In the USA, this case would be a $50 million malpractice suit but it seems normal in the UK
Not satire: Britain building ecotowns in the countryside. Destroying beautiful countryside in the process.
Not satire: Britain has "I am not a pedophile" cards
Not satire: The O's Science Czar used to be a global cooling fearmonger. Just a typical nutty crank.
Not satire: Minneapolis has a Department of Walking. Where would we be without government's wisdom?
A confession from a climate-changer in a book review at Am Thinker:
"We need to ask not what we can do for climate change, but to ask what climate change can do for us." According to Hulme, climate change can do a lot: "Because the idea of climate change is so plastic, it can be deployed across many of our human projects and can serve many of our psychological, ethical, and spiritual needs."
Speak for yourself, shmuck.
Meanwhile, global cooling attacks the Northeast
Re Black Studies:
"If I couldn't study something that's about myself then I wouldn't want to be here," the black sophomore once told me, explaining how crucial to him it was to be able to major in African-American Studies.
I'd recommend math or physics. It's not about you, Mr. Young Student.
Photo from theo
Thursday, July 16. 2009
From Jammie's piece on taxes, the view from NYC:
From Front Page:
There are no resolutions currently before this year's Episcopal General Convention directly criticizing any government in the world, except two: Israel and the United States. Resolutions mention human rights abuses in the Philippines and strife in southern Sudan but decline to criticize governments there, though surely Sudan's Islamist regime, dripping with blood of millions of victims, might merit some disapproval. There is no criticism of any Muslim or communist dictatorship around the world, though Cuba's Marxist regime is portrayed by one resolution as the victim of U.S. sanctions. In contrast, about a half dozen statements for consideration before the General Convention are aimed at Israel.
No wonder nobody goes to Epsicopalian churches anymore. They aren't about God. They are about politics.
 From Big Pharma gets Played in the WSJ:
Democrats remember the failure of HillaryCare, and they blame industry ads that alerted the public to the rationing and loss of choice that will accompany government health care. Their negotiations this time around are intended to buy business silence, at least long enough for Democrats to spring legislation into law before the companies have enough time to educate the public and defeat it.
Big Pharma and others have been played for suckers. We'd say these companies deserve what they get, except that the real victims of government health care will be American patients.
Related at IBD: Reading the fine print:
It didn't take long to run into an "uh-oh" moment when reading the House's "health care for all Americans" bill. Right there on Page 16 is a provision making individual private medical insurance illegal.
That is what it is all about: everybody on the plantation. That makes it illegal for me to go out and buy my own medical insurance. How come nobody is mentioning that?
Taxes: You're next. But first, drowning the rich
NYT: Why we must ration medical care
Related, remind me: What problem is a health care bill supposed to be solving?
Why the Dems are in a hurry: dropping poll numbers. Some Dems feel the O could be a handicap
Thinking about consciousness. Rick Moran
Moonbat Czar du jour. Says he's a Communist.
In Tennessee, you can now bring your gun to the pub. You can still smoke in some of them, too.
Where taxes will have to go without entitlement reform (details at Willisms):
Wednesday, July 15. 2009
California’s wise governors have discovered another way to put teenage entrepreneurs out of work. The AP reports that according to a study by tax officials:
The State Board of Equalization report estimates marijuana retail sales [in California] would bring $990 million from a $50-per-ounce fee and $392 million in sales taxes.
The bill introduced by San Francisco Democratic Assemblyman Tom Ammiano in February would allow adults 21 and older to legally possess, grow and sell marijuana.
California faces ongoing structural deficits in its state budget of over $25-billion a year, about 25% of its spending levels. So, let’s have more “sin taxes.” "We can no longer afford to keep our heads in the sand when it comes to marijuana," Ammiano said in a statement.
Nor can we afford to have more political sand thrown in our eyes. We were told that the state lottery would ensure education funding, but it hasn’t. We were told that Indian gaming would boost state revenues, but the Indians have learned since they sold Manhattan for some beads to largely avoid paying back our new Peter Stuyvesants. We were told that increased tobacco and alcohol taxes would pay for targeted treatment programs, but most has been siphoned to other uses.
The odds of winning the lottery are far worse than in any form of gambling, as the poor line up with false hope in their eyes to buy tickets. Ever walk through an Indian casino, particularly in the daytime, and see the seniors looking like tamed zombies from Night Of The Living Dead feed their retirement checks and savings into the slots. And, about all we get is some public service commercials, usually in the middle of the night, telling us not to smoke or to drink responsibly.
Just because there are many who do smoke marijuana, there is no justification that I can accept for making it easier for more to do so. The AP story says, “Marijuana use would likely increase by about 30 percent once the law took effect because legalization would lead to falling prices, the board said.” I’ll bet, taxed or untaxed, the increase in use would be higher.
Marijuana can lead to similar, and worse, unhealthy effects as tobacco. Particularly among teens, in their mentally formative and impressionable years, marijuana has been shown to impede maturing and dealing constructively with everyday life. But, don’t take my word for it. Below the fold are excerpts from the National Institutes for Health’s fact sheet, just updated this month.
California is about 12% of the US’ population. Similar proposals have been made in other states. And, federally, there may be potential for $8.25-billion in similar annual revenues for Washington, D.C. California and Washington, however, have shown no appetite for more careful governance of the many billions of tax dollars they have now, preferring more taxes to eliminating wasteful programs, disappointing their union bosses, or having to actually professionally manage.
Yes, I know many of us have smoked marijuana, and most have gone on to reasonably productive lives. But, think back and remember the many of fellow pot smokers we knew who didn’t. Think deep and honestly about your own experiences, and whether you may have made some better choices if not smoking marijuana. Think about why enlarging harmful behaviors is not justified by their smaller incidence already.
Then, think about our legislators, and I’ll take the bet that a larger proportion are still living in smoke dreams, avoiding the necessity to govern they were elected to do. Indeed, they probably hope that more of us will be so smoked.
Instead, we get such nonsense as this proposal, the “Governing? Don’t Bother Me, Man, I’m High” bill. Don’t give me any libertarian crap on this one, at least until we get legislators who stop being high on our excess taxes.
Continue reading "Governing? Don’t Bother Me, Man, I’m High"
Today, your medical care is between you and your Doc, and sometimes with an insurance company. Either a straight line, or a simple triangle.
Mr. Brady at New Majority plots the organizational chart of the Dem plan. The extent of the proposed bureaucracy is indeed baffling, if not insane. Who is in charge? Certainly not you, the paying patient (because you won't be paying: your Doc will be working for the government), and definitely not your Doctor:
Insty reports that the bill essentially eliminates Medicare:
ENDING MEDICARE? “Obama’s health care proposal is, in effect, the repeal of the Medicare program as we know it. The elderly will go from being the group with the most access to free medical care to the one with the least access.” So why aren’t we hearing more about this? “The interest groups that usually speak up for the elderly, particularly AARP, are in Obama’s pocket, hoping to profit from his program by becoming one of its vendors. Just as they backed Bush’s prescription drug plan because they anticipating profiting from it, so they are now helping Obama gut the medical care of their constituents.”
Who can understand all this crap?
Photo above from Gateway's Dems want to pass socialized medical care in weeks
After 20 years in jail, lying kids offer Dad a hug. During those years, real witch hunts were going on. h/t, Overlawyered
Did you know they have tiger farms?
Is your thinking "impure"?
This John Holdren is a real nutjob. Where do they find these people? RCP calls him The Science Fiction Czar
The Car Czar turns out to have been a possible crook
Obamacare and other disasters. Surber. Related, Pethokoukis on why the health surtax is a disaster
Shocking. CIA had plans to kill Al Qaida leaders
Soto: lying or stupid? I'll go with lying. One lib law prof says:
I was completely disgusted by Judge Sotomayor’s testimony today. If she was not perjuring herself, she is intellectually unqualified to be on the Supreme Court. If she was perjuring herself, she is morally unqualified. How could someone who has been on the bench for seventeen years possibly believe that judging in hard cases involves no more than applying the law to the facts? First year law students understand within a month that many areas of the law are open textured and indeterminate-that the legal material frequently (actually, I would say always) must be supplemented by contestable presuppositions, empirical assumptions, and moral judgments. To claim otherwise-to claim that fidelity to uncontested legal principles dictates results-is to claim that whenever Justices disagree among themselves, someone is either a fool or acting in bad faith. What does it say about our legal system that in order to get confirmed Judge Sotomayor must tell the lies that she told today? That judges and justices must live these lies throughout their professional careers?
Tiger's news that will not make headlines:
In the category of news that will make no headlines, "There appears to be something fundamentally wrong with the way temperature and carbon are linked in climate models."
Via Icecap, an attempted exchange of information with Sen Lieberman re AGW.
At No Pasaran:
Think about it – the French and the British – two of the societies with a past history of the proponency of freedom of expression, and both with no shortage of understanding of the burden and suspicion that a state-run media can burden a society with STILL have state run media establishments, but Poland is simply disposing of theirs for precisely the right reasons.
At American Spectator, re 2010:
Next year's elections are going to produce a political earthquake. That is because we currently suffer the most left-wing government in our nation's history. After just 6 months in office, the flower children that rule Washington in overwhelming numbers are already smashing through all records regarding federal taxes, spending, deficits, and debt. Obama and his ultra-left Democrats adopted a so-called stimulus bill raising spending a trillion dollars that never had a prayer of actually creating jobs and promoting long-term economic growth, because it was based entirely on old-fashioned, brain dead, proven to fail, Keynesian economics. Though we would have to double federal taxes to finance the entitlement promises we have already made, the ruling Washington Democrats completely ignore that and focus instead on adopting yet another entitlement -- national health insurance -- that would be the biggest of all.
These Dems in Congress are insane. They have no idea what they are doing. They are bargaining away America's medical freedom, doing any deal they can do, with zero consideration of unintended consequences or the costs, and trying for a government takeover of 1/5 of the economy. As if they could run anything successfully.
This is serious business to people, and not ordinary politics. They are trying to patch and rush this through before citizens have any idea of what they are doing. It is totally nuts and furthermore, I am not convinced that it is anything anybody really wants.
Dick Morris thinks so too.
The medical care bill. From Steele:
“The Democrats’ priorities for health-care reform are now clear: a government-run system financed on the backs of Americans and small businesses with higher taxes,” said Michael Steele, chairman of the Republican National Committee.
From the AP, which begins:
House Democratic leaders, pledging to meet the president's goal of health care legislation before their August break, are offering a $1.5 trillion plan that for the first time would make health care a right and a responsibility for all Americans. Left to pick up most of the tab were medical providers, employers and the wealthy.
No, it doesn't make health care a right. It makes insurance a right - if you can call something a "right" which is enforced and required by the government and paid for by us, whether we want to or not.
What do I want? I want free housing in Manhattan, free food and beer, a free car with free car insurance, a free boat with free dockage, and free legal coverage if I get in a scrape.
And I do not want my doc subject to "best practices" as determined by Washington wonks. I want him to work with me and for me, and I want to pay him to do so. Cooky-cutter medicine is crazy.
Tuesday, July 14. 2009
In the Summer of ’68, I stayed with a hot French girl in an apartment in Manhattan’s Spanish Harlem. My Spanish was fluent enough then that I’d managed a store in Brooklyn’s Bedford Stuyvesant, where many poor Puerto Ricans lived, Puerto Rican Spanish being something like playing a 45-record at 78-speed.
My second-most delight after things French that Summer was eating Puerto Rican stews at local, cheap eateries, the great Eddie Palmieri often playing in the background. I prefer the meat-based ones to the seafood-based ones, but it’s the use of tropical vegetables and spices that make Puerto Rican stews so memorable that my mouth still waters. (Bird Dog, please don’t look for a photo of Puerto Rican stew to add to the post; none look anything like what I’m talking about, appearing Americanized, and the recipes on the Internet don’t resonate. I don’t want to mis-steer our readers.)
Years later, after a barefoot cruise deeper in the Caribbean I stopped off in Puerto Rico for a week, and was gratefully steered to a very busy neighborhood restaurant near Old San Juan reputed to have the best Puerto Rican stew. Sitting at a long lunch counter along the right wall, the elderly lady on the next stool turned out to be the aunt of the fantastic Puerto Rican actor Raul Julia, politically active on the Left but an authentic superb professional. She helped guide me to an afternoon of additional delectable tastings.
I’ve eaten at several Puerto Rican restaurants in the US outside NYC, and never have found those unique flavors. I guess the ingredients don’t travel too well and the recipes are adjusted to Americans’ tastes (don’t even start me on how I’ve never found a pizza elsewhere to equal New York’s).
So, what does this have to do with Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor, of Puerto Rican heritage? My fondness for Puerto Rican food and music are far more authentic – indeed may I say honest -- than hers about her legal positions and speeches at her confirmation hearing. Although the overwhelming Democrat majority in the Senate guarantees her a yea vote, and there’s no evidence of her “hiking” the Appalachian trail, Sotomayor is making a bad hash of the truth before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Even the Associated Press leads its coverage with, “It’s a good thing Sonia Sotomayor speaks Sotomayoran,” as she baldly stirs false ingredients into her resume.
Sotomayor expects us to believe she didn’t really mean it when she repeatedly over the years said her “wise Latina” view of Justice should prevail over the clear law. Sotomayor expects us to believe that although she headed the Litigation Committee of the Board of the Puerto Rican Legal and Education Defense Fund (PRLEDF), she “never reviewed those briefs” from the PRLEDF that argued radical positions before courts.
I can accept that Sotomayor is a liberal replacement for a liberal retiring Supreme Court Justice. I can accept trying to defer to the selection of the sitting President. I cannot accept that she is publicly making a hash of the truth knowing, as with her overturned Ricci decision, she is making a legal mockery of the facts. Reasonably explaining yourself is one thing. Putting rotten ersatz ingredients in the public’s stomach is another. Puerto Rican stew is to be savored. Her hash should to be spit out.
Also, check out PowerLine’s “Sotomayor’s Nose Grows Longer” , and the other posts at PowerLine on Sotomayor, and at the Washington Post Eva Rodriguez writes “I'm surprised and disturbed by how many times today Sonia Sotomayor has backed off of or provided less-than-convincing explanations for some of her more controversial speeches about the role of gender and ethnicity in judicial decision-making.”
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