Last week a special assistant to the president, writing on the White House Web site, urged supporters of ObamaCare to report dissent: “If you get an email or see something on the web about health insurance reform that seems fishy, send it to flag@whitehouse.gov.” Some saw this as an assault on civil liberties; others, as a clumsy but essentially innocuous attempt to gather information. Our opinion, which we explained Wednesday (second item), tended toward the latter, although we did find the wording a bit creepy.

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