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…
It’s been a crazy week in politics, particularly in Texas; the “silly season of politics”, as various people have called it, is in full swing. Unfortunately, as much as I’d love to repost that video, I have no activists in chicken suits, nor do I have anything connecting certain politicians to chickens at all. As…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=Obama+state+of+the+union&iid=7709821" src="3/1/1/1/US_President_Obama_bb00.JPG?adImageId=9565325&imageId=7709821" width="380" height="336" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Did you watch the State of the Union tonight? If there is one event that makes a majority of Americans watch the news each year, it is the State of the Union address. It is, after all that one time of the year that…
[picapp align="center" wrap="false" link="term=Supreme+Court&iid=7612285" src="8/f/2/0/Supreme_Court_Strikes_79cd.jpg?adImageId=9373566&imageId=7612285" width="380" height="268" /] [tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] If you thought modern elections were brutal due to the volume of attack ads, hang on to your hats as things are about to get a whole lot worse. Today, in a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court ruled that many of the campaign finance…
[tweetmeme source="bassitone" only_single=false] Well, this is a dangerous ruling. Today, The District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Presidential power to detain terrorists goes beyond even the Geneva Convention and other “rules of war”, according to the New York Times. This is especially interesting in that it was just about a unanimous…
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