So it comes down to this: this is the week that the Supreme Court is hearing the oral arguments about the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature health care reform law. The Justices are specifically focusing on the question of that pesky individual mandate, which as the name might indicate will eventually require that each…
I know I said on Fridays I would post, but I was literally singing one song too much to calm down and write. (What song, you ask? Well…let’s just say if I linked it here you guys would be too busy singing along for the rest of the day to read the rest of this post!…
Quick, what do the People’s Republic of China, Soviet Russia (along with the rest of the Warsaw Pact states), Iran, and Britain in Orwell’s 1984 all have in common? They all censor ideas that they don’t want their citizens to hear about. Soon, if the US Congress gets its way, the United States could join…
Forget about Occupy Wall Street for a moment. Forget Protect IP and SOPA for a moment as well. There is, lurking in the halls of Congress at this very moment an all-too-serious threat to our rights as Americans. Watch the first minute or so of the above video, and pay special attention to Senator Rand…
Perhaps you’ve already heard about the growing movement known as Occupy Wall Street. This broad social movement has protested against a variety of social problems in the heart of New York City’s Financial District since mid-September, and it has since spread to a variety of other cities in the US and around the world. I’m…
So, apparently there was a hurricane last week that hit just about the entire east coast. Hopefully it didn’t affect any of you all that much, but if it did or if you know someone who was affected, I hope everything’s alright and that you’ve recovered from Irene’s effects with few problems. Because if Virginia…
Given how the internet, the mainstream media, and indeed much of America itself, has absolutely erupted with the news that Osama bin Laden has been killed, chances are you’ve probably heard the news before reaching this post. Perhaps you watched President Obama’s speech live on Sunday night, just as I did. In any case, President…
Well, it appears that the government shutdown has been averted, at least for the moment. That’s hardly cause for celebration, though, as not only is the final deal still being written up and passed, but we’re also never truly out of the water on funding the government these days either. Put aside deficits, debts, and…
On Sunday afternoon, another government official quietly, regretfully handed in a letter of resignation to his boss. That’s not very big news in itself; after all, stories pop up every now and then of a minor official stepping down because of some embarrassment, slip up, or something else that causes pressure to quit to come…
…but I’ll be damned if they didn’t cause it to boil over. I’m talking, of course, of the mass demonstrations against the budget bill that Governor Scott Walker (a Republican), and the majorities in the Wisconsin State Legislature (both also Republican) have been trying to ram through for the past month. You know, the one…
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