Consider this...
Choice, when used to refer to liberty, does not mean simply having choices...

And if the free market is a natural phenomena, an invisible hand, about choice...

Then the free market of ideas requires us to vigorously contest...like this girl attempts to do... (note to those who may not read my blog often--that is, most of you--while I am critical here of those who see the bible as a science text, I am not suggesting that those who try to live a Christian life are stupid or clueless...if you did read my blog more often it would be clear to you that I take our call to engage with love, to love our neighbors as ourselves, deeply seriously and respect those who attempt to, who struggle to, live this way.)

And ask ourselves how the issues on the agenda actually get on the agenda?

In the FYI category…

A very thoughtful analysis of media misperceptions in a Huff Post article from last week starts with a music journalist and concludes with the recent CBO story.

“The gist of the CBO's projections was that a not-insignificant number of workers would, because of incentives the law provides, choose not to supply the labor market. Which is to say: they'd retire, or reduce their hours, or start a business, or find a better job now that they weren't caught in the trap of "job lock" -- a situation in which you can't leave a job you don't like for a better one because you're too dependent on the health care the employer provides.

The problem is that the media totally ganked on the story. Opponents of Obamacare seized on the report, willfully conflated a decrease in labor supply with a decrease in labor demand (this is the difference between an employee leaving a job or the workforce voluntarily and employers eliminating jobs)…..” 

Watch the embedded Colbert clip as well.  Colbert Report and the Daily Show are particularly powerful at exposing systematic media misinformation.