Fightin Words writes an epilogue for the Swine Flu "pandemic", responds to President Obama's disdain for tea parties, and revisits the issue of genetic privacy in the state of Minnesota. The bulk of the podcast covers the ongoing struggle of the Citizens' Council on Health Care against certain Minnesota state legislators and the Minnesota Department of Health to overturn a law requiring informed consent for the storage and use of newborn DNA. The Department of Health has displayed blatant disregard for the law with apparent impunity. We also cover the Minnesota Department of Public Safety's effort to ban internet poker in the state, and tie everything together with an analysis of President Obama's frustrations with the US Constitution, and how they underline the philosophy driving American government in the twenty-first century.
Poker story begins at 32:07