Today on the Dish, Andrew demanded substantiation from Jeffrey Goldberg on the "lying" charge, argued that the line between Israel and the settlements was being irrevocably blurred, said "finally!" to the Obama Administration's decision to defend the term Obamacare and the policy the label describes. Arguments on the Supreme Court case about the law began, trying to read the decision tea leaves from the oral arguments was a fraught endeavor, Obamacare wasn't just the mandate, the case seemed unlikely to change the public's view of the law, and pundits projected the political implications of the law's (hypothetical) defeat. Santorum won Catholic voters (for once) and feuded with the NYT, Gingrich called for a very unlikely open convention, GOP turnout looked kinda-okay, 2016 speculation was silly, and SuperPACs (maybe) pushed the GOP in a libertarian direction. Ad War Update here.
Andrew also opened the Ask Charles Murray Anything poll to your questions, campaigned for the petition to get Alan Turing on the 10 pound note, posted some clips from his Bill Maher appearance, and confessed his delight at receiving drunken emails. We drew some conclusions from the coup in Mali, spotlighted New Zealand's economic excellence, debated the markup on legal weed, and weighed the relative merits of credit cards and cash in terms your propensity toward profligate spend. Specific advice formed good habits, readers contested math's supposed uselessness, algae (potentially) replaced oil as fuel, companies measured our digital selves' value, defriending hurt Facebook, and science saw around corners. We wondered if humans could catch a computer cold, checked on our Xanax addiction, worried that American dialects were going stale, got confused by the super-hot March, moved "Toward a Social Psychology of Flatulence" with Andrew's help, and demanded the government release its death grip on our Taco-Copters. Quotes for the Day here and here, Hewitt Nominee here, VFYW here, MHB here, and FOTD here.
– Z.B.
(Photo: Georgetown University medical student Kate Prather holds her dog, 3-year-old Ellie, during demonstrations in support of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act outside the Supreme Court Building on March 26, 2012. Prather said her dog has health insurance and that all Americans should have coverage, too. Today the high court, which has set aside six hours over three days, will hear arguments over the constitutionality of the law. By Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.)
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