Blue Jersey: The disappearing Chris Christie. The Florida Squeeze: How to fight back against Republican sabotage of health care in the Sunshine State. Eric Foner: Why Reconstruction matters. Balloon Juice: In Indiana, haters gonna hate you for hating their hate. Speaking of which, your quote of the day: “To permit this would be to make the professed doctrines of religious belief superior to the law of the land, and in effect to permit every citizen to become a law unto himself.” (Justice Antonin Scalia, in Employment Division v.