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Monthly Archives: July 2012

Disenfranchised

Pennsylvania Secretary of the Commonwealth Carol Aichele repeatedly claimed that 99% of Pennsylvania voters had a photo ID that would allow them to vote. But now that they passed their voter ID law, Aichele’s department did a cross check of the voter registration rolls against the database of people with state ID (typically driver’s licenses). […]

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The Republican Alternate Universe

© Ben Sargent And this doesn’t even include the fact that the Affordable Care Act was pretty much their idea in the first place.

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Buying Justice?

You may not be able to buy justice, but you can buy a few justices. One of the things overlooked in most of the reporting about the Supreme Court’s decision on ObamaCare is that the lead plantiff (and sole source of legal funds) in the case was the National Federation for Independent Businesses (NFIB), which […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“I could not wait to start using my Obamacare. Today, I swallowed a fist full of birth control pills and then washed it down with poison. What do I care, it’s free!” – Bill Maher “What was really so hard for the conservatives to swallow was that Justice John Roberts was the one that did […]

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Truth is Stranger Than Fiction

© Ruben Bolling If the four conservative Supreme Court justices had their way, I think this would have been the largest abuse of “Judicial Activism” in the history of the world! Or at least since the Citizen’s United decision.

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Free Political Irony Games

I try to make it as easy as possible for people to post comments on this blog. Unlike practically all blogs, I don’t require people to create an account, and I allow anonymous postings. The price is that I have to constantly monitor the comments for spam, but I think it is worth it to […]

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When is a Tax Not a Tax?

When it is created by Mitt Romney of course. On Monday, Romney spokesperson Eric Fehrnstrom said that Romney did not agree with the Supreme Court ruling that the individual mandate was constitutional because of the government’s right to create taxes. “The governor believes that what we put in place in Massachusetts was a penalty, and […]

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The New Health Care Unreality Reality

© Tom Tomorrow The debate around ObamaCare it getting stranger and stranger. Yesterday, a Republican running for Congress in New York declared that he is against health care reform because Americans “don’t die from prostate cancer, breast cancer” anymore. Over 28,000 men will die from prostate cancer this year alone, and 40,000 women will die […]

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When Everything is Political

© Matt Bors Not only does the media treat everything as if it were political, it treats politics as a simple horse race. Unfortunately, reality is a bit more complicated. Health care isn’t just a fight between the Republicans and Democrats, it affects people’s lives. You would think that the media would realize that the […]

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Late Night Political Humor

“It’s a great day for President Obama. His healthcare law was upheld by the Supreme Court. The president apparently had three speeches ready to go this morning. One if the law was overturned, one if the law was upheld, and one if Joe Biden chewed up the other two.” – Craig Ferguson “In a landmark […]

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Why Roberts Switched

© Robert Ariail One surprise around the Supreme Court decision upholding ObamaCare is that it was Chief Justice John Roberts who cast the deciding vote, siding with the Liberals on the court instead of the Conservatives. Ironically, the reason he did this is a severe indictment of the conservatives, not just on the Supreme Court, […]

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Schrödinger’s Candidate

Mitt Romney. If you don’t like his policies, give it a minute. Mitt Romney is in a difficult position after the Supreme Court decision upholding ObamaCare. Romney can’t complain about the individual mandate being a tax, since he was a huge proponent of the individual mandate both in Massachusetts and for national health care reform. […]

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Sharing Serious Laughter

Do you think this would be a good idea?

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Late Night Political Humor

“Mitt Romney has a new fundraising gimmick. If you donate $3 or more to his campaign, your name will be entered into a drawing to win a dinner with Mitt Romney and Donald Trump. If you donate more than $10, you get to sit at a different table.” – Jay Leno “Mitt Romney wants to […]

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ObamaCare Explained So Everyone Can Understand It

[Tired about all the lies and mischaracterizations being made about ObamaCare?  Want to know what the bill actually says and does? Well, someone on Reddit posted a very concise and easy to understand description of the bill. I’m reprinting (most of) it here (he said I could). The same guy is also creating a post […]

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