Candidates never miss fundraising opportunities

Analysts are still parsing who really won in Thursday’s Supreme Court ruling that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act is constitutional. Democrats who all along had insisted the law was legal? Republicans who now can continue railing against the law on the election trail and won on the broccoli argument? Sick people and young adults who now will be assured coverage?

It was none of those, of course. The real winners were campaign fundraisers. …

Houston’s sinful ‘pole tax’

The Wall Street Journal reported this week that Houston will assess a $5 cover charge to each patron visiting the Texas city’s strip clubs. The money will be used to investigate rape cases, though “there is no known correlation between people going to nice, high-end gentlemen’s clubs and rape,” Albert Van Huff, a Houston lawyer who represents local strip clubs told the newspaper. Nor is there one for those frequenting lower-end clubs. …

A milestone for doctors-in-training

Here’s some medicine that should be easy to swallow. The Virginia Tech Carilion School of Medicine is closing in on its goal to become a fully accredited medical school, and that progress should soon translate into dollars for the future doctors who study there.

The Southern Association of Colleges and Schools Commission on Colleges this month granted the Roanoke school “candidacy” status, allowing students to qualify for federal loans in the near future. …

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