June 2012
thecountercurseisunjellify:
chylerleigh:
Matt Smith revealed that there is a hint in The Eleventh Hour regarding the Ponds leaving.
I just can’t wait for next season
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Bad news for the Righties: Four Reasons Why The... →
justinspoliticalcorner:
The Supreme Court today upheld the Affordable Care Act, the health care reform law signed by President Obama in 2010, ruling 5-4 that the law was constitutional. Chief Justice John Roberts joined Justices Sonya Sotomayor, Stephen Breyer, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and Elena Kagan on the opinion. The individual mandate, the requirement that all Americans purchase health...
Republicans support Obama’s health reforms — as...
abaldwin360:
The new Reuters-Ipsos poll finds that Obamacare remains deeply unpopular; 56 percent of Americans oppose the law, versus only 44 percent who favor it. The poll also finds that strong majorities of Americans favor the individual provisions in the law — the hated individual mandate excepted, of course.
What’s particularly interesting about this poll is that solid majorities of...
The U.S. Internal Revenue Service is signaling... →
The move comes as such tax-exempt groups - many of which have better-known sister organizations known as “Super PACs,” or political action committees - are under criticism from Democrats and some Republicans for using money from anonymous sources to try to influence elections.
Like Super PACs, tax-exempt political groups can raise and spend unlimited funds - in contrast to political campaigns,...
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The most amazing obituary ever? →
joshsternberg:
The paragraphs below don’t even tell 1/4 of the story; a movie surely will be made about Count Robert de La Rochefoucauld.
Cycling to Bordeaux to meet a contact who was to arrange his return to England, however, he ran into a roadblock, taken prisoner, and imprisoned at the 16th-century Fort du Hâ. His explanations that he had been out after dark on a romantic assignation were...
Why Christians should be OK with the Supreme... →
First, Christians are clearly directed by both the Old and New Testaments to put the care of the sick and the poor at the top of their concerns. If we believe that God is sovereign over all of life we have to accept the challenge that our concern for the sick and the poor is an individual concern and it is a concern of government, churches and businesses. The interplay of these different...
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My five year old cut off my three year old’s hair. A few weeks later, I decided to interview them and get their explanations. Here’s what they told me.
(via PRX » Piece » Two Little Girls Explain The Worst Haircut Ever)
When Politics Is Lost In Translation - The Dish |... →
The Chinese are puzzled by American healthcare politics:
Chinese readers strain to understand the political incentives for arguing against providing care. A piece about how the Supreme Court’s decision will affect the campaign, broadcast on China National Radio today, struggled to explain how rational voters could find common cause with a party that seeks to prevent them from gaining access to...
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Worse Than Watergate?
politicalprof:
One of the claims running around the political world this silly season is that “Fast and Furious,” the failed ATF operation involving tracking US guns sold to Mexican drug gangs, is a scandal “worse than Watergate” — the scandal that destroyed Richard Nixon’s presidency.
On the hypothesis that almost no one on Tumblr knows anything about Watergate, I thought I’d offer a brief...
A Republican Voting for Obama →
I am a registered Republican, and never voted for a Democratic president. I am prepared to vote for President Obama for his reelection and here’s why. I’ll try to make it fast.
I was with Blue Cross and Blue Shield for the last two years, with insurance coverage for myself and my entire family. I was a good customer, never late on my premiums, relatively small health problems throughout my...
“Maybe I just don’t understand the Republican definition of freedom anymore. I...”
– Jesse Curtis (via azspot)
Something Wicked This Way Comes →
A few days ago, while awaiting the Supreme Court ruling on the Obama health-care law, I called a few doctor friends around the country. I asked them if they could tell me about current patients whose health had been affected by a lack of insurance.
“This falls under the too-numerous-to-count section,” a New Jersey internist said. A vascular surgeon in Indianapolis told me about a man in his...
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The Roberts Court: Now With Jokes
letterstomycountry:
As I was reading through the healthcare opinion earlier, this statement from Justice Roberts’ Commerce Clause analysis caught my eye (pg. 26):
The Commerce Clause is not a general license to regulate an individual from cradle to grave, simply because he will predictably engage in particular transactions. Any police power to regulate individuals as such, as opposed to their...
“Whoever wins the presidency in November will be looking at a high court with...”
– Paul Brandus, How the ObamaCare ruling will shape U.S. politics… for the next 40 years. (via theweekmagazine)
No matter what a president does (except maybe Washington and Lincoln), his legacy will be those he places on the bench. While most won’t recognize this — we’ll talk about a president’s war...
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Rory has been becoming much more irrational and...
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WHAT'S POOR MITT TO DO?
arewepayingattention:
Poor Mitt! (He’s not really poor, that’s just an expression.)
(1) His Romneycare insurance mandate plan in Massachusetts was the model for Obamacare.
(2) The GOP’s Right Wing-nuts he needs didn’t trust him for that reason.
(3) To curry their favor, he promises to repeal Obamacare.
(4) He shamelessly reconciles (3) and (1) above by saying insurance mandates are OK if...
Romney: "Obamacare adds trillions to our deficits...
abaldwin360:
The CBO said this about the health care law back in 2010: It lowers the deficit, by about $124 billion over 10 years.
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Question Everything: Poll: Half of All Americans... →
abaldwin360:
According to a new poll released today, almost half of voters believe that Republicans are deliberately stalling efforts to better the economy in order to bolster their chances of defeating President Barack Obama.
Objections will be raised stating that this is a left…
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Students caught on video bullying bus monitor... →
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Dispatches from Post-Liberty America: Day One
squashed:
Hello? Is anybody still out there?
It’s been a rough 24 hours since the Murder of Liberty—and I’m sending this message out into the void in the desparate hope that somewhere some of the other Sons of Liberty have managed to avoid the storm troopers. If you get this message—you are not alone. Some of us are still surviving in the hellscape. We have enough clean water for weeks—though...
“It’s often said that libertarianism is the philosophy of “I’ve got mine and f’...”
– Wendy Gittleson (via azspot)
“The fearful part is that five justices ruled that the Affordable Care Act cannot...”
– John Roberts Saves Us All (via azspot)
Conservatism And Wildfires Don’t Mix →
In the last several years, Colorado has had a problem even worse than its usual combination of dry and summer heat, beetle trees. Mountain pine beetles have been a major problem for Colorado. Any trip through the mountains will reveal thousands upon thousands of dead pine trees littering the landscape. Global warming is giving Colorado a double whammy for forest fires. It heats the land, making...
“First, if you’re one of the more than 250 million Americans who already have...”
– President Barack Obama (via azspot)
Most Evangelicals Likely to Lament Supreme... →
Evangelicals, more than any other religious group, wanted the entire health care law scrapped, according to a June poll by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press. In poll results given to Christianity Today, three-quarters of evangelicals disapprove of the law, a number higher than any other religious tradition. Catholics and those unaffiliated with religion were evenly split....
5 Signs of a Radical Change in U.S. Politics →
First, a presidential election is decided by five people, who don’t even try to explain their choice in normal legal terms.
Then the beneficiary of that decision appoints the next two members of the court, who present themselves for consideration as restrained, humble figures who care only about law rather than ideology.
Once on the bench, for life, those two actively second-guess and re-do...
