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Fred on Everything is my new favorite site.

I can sit here and read and read and read and read, agree with much of it, and never once have my blood pressure go through the roof.

Most of the time, the more I agree with a guy, the more I just want to go out and throttle some other guy.

Not so much with Fred.

Way, double highly recommended.

Click anywhere an the quote below for the piece from which it was taken.

Now there's some thinkin!

Shikha Dalmia on Resisting ObamaCare, Gandhi Style, in forbes.com, March 24:

By foisting ObamaCare on a deeply unwilling country he might have set the stage for the largest civil disobedience movement since the civil rights era, which, if it plays its cards right, could undo his legislation and his legacy. . . .

By some estimates, Uncle Sam will need to hire an additional 17,000 IRS agents or so just to enforce the coverage mandate. But even if a few million Americans simultaneously refuse to abide by it [or pay the fine], they could easily overwhelm the system. Self-rule or swaraj, Gandhi said, requires a collective understanding of the immense capacity of citizens to "regulate and control" the coercive apparatus of the state through mass nonviolent resistance.

President Obama and his fellow Democrats are counting on this resistance petering out. That could happen. But it will be a lot easier for opponents to maintain this zeal in the age of social networking. . . . After all, this issue is not just about the fate of an industry. It is about maintaining control over basic decisions about one's own life and health.