Collateral damage in the GOP war against President Obama: With a court decision on Monday declaring the health care law unconstitutional and Republicans intent on repealing at least parts of it, thousands of Americans with major illnesses are facing the renewed prospect of losing their health insurance coverage. The legislation put an end to lifetime …
Archives for February 2011
Legislating from the bench
Orin Kerr explains the essential problem with the recent District court ruling against the new healthcare law: This might work as a Supreme Court opinion that can disagree with precedent. But Judge Vinson is just a District Court judge. And if you pair Justice Thomas’s dissent in Raich with Judge Vinson’s opinion today, you realize …
Feel Like Makin’….WOLVERINES!
Right-wing propaganda may be hazardous to your love life. Kelsey Grammer’s ex-wife Camille (said to myself in a Bill Cosby voice): “I love cuddling,” she added. “We didn’t even do that. He was too busy watching FOX News. He didn’t want to cuddle.” (h/t Southern Beale)
Yesterday’s News
It’s kind of funny watching how the media operates- if anything the protests in Egypt are increasing and reaching a critical mass, yet CNN, which had breathless round the clock coverage for the past week, has dropped the story like a prom dress in favor of the imminent MASSIVE ONCE IN A CENTURY SO BAD …
Who’s Missing?
I intended to write something on the health care reform decision yesterday. I read the opinion, but it seems no one knows what the decision actually means. I’d sure like to know whether people in 26 states just lost the protections that are already in place, but I suppose I’ll have to wait until we …
At Least We’ll Have Mexico!
I don’t even know what to make of this: It’s a little tough to excerpt, but Media Matters flagged this gem, which helped capture Beck’s vision: “I believe that I can make a case in the end that there are three powers that you will see really emerge. One, a Muslim caliphate that controls the …
On Rape, War Crimes, and Republicans
I know this is a late post, and I know there’s lots going on in the world…but I have kept waking up in the night for the last few with bile rising over the Republican-led effort to valorize rape over women. If you’re worn out on this topic, just walk on by. Here’s what’s kept …