February 17, 2013
Is Money For Warfare More Important Than Health Care?
Below is an anonymous comment to a recent Facebook photo being passed around that compares money spent on warfare to money spent on health care:
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December 6, 2012
On Social Issues, Conservatives Embrace The Counter Slant
Have you noticed when it comes to conservatives, their reasons for being against social progress are secondary to the conflict? Put another way, many conservatives find comfort in defining good vs. evil, ally vs. foe.
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July 10, 2012
Cartoon: Romney on the Individual Mandate
It’s a tax. Or is it a penalty?
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July 5, 2012
The Irony And Deceit Of Constitutional ‘Original Intent’ Arguments
E.J. Dionne has a great piece in the Washington Post: The Founders’ true spirit. In it he writes, “Differences over policy are often disguised as differences over whether a preferred choice is constitutional or not. When we should be addressing pragmatic questions — Will this approach work? Will it solve the problem it’s designed to solve? Is this a problem government should do something about? — we instead fall back on rather abstract discussions of whether a given idea violates the Constitution.”
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July 4, 2012
Mitt Romney “Now” Says Individual Mandate Is A Tax. That Didn’t Take Long.
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June 28, 2012
Health Care Individual Mandate Upheld, Confidence In The Supreme Court Restored
Well, today at least.
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April 1, 2012
Does The ‘Individual Mandate’ Argument Boil Down To Semantics?
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March 30, 2012
Really? A Supreme Court Justice Compared Broccoli And Health Care?
When the Supreme Court strikes down the individual mandate and possibly the entire Affordable Care Act with a 5-4 decision, you can be sure Republicans will be mum on the topic of judicial activism. See, judicial activism only works in one direction.
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