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Newt Gingrich: "CNN is less biased than FOX"
Seeded on Thu Apr 12, 2012 10:42 AM EDT (RealClearPolitics)
During a meeting with 18 Delaware Tea Party leaders here on Wednesday, Newt Gingrich lambasted FOX News Channel, accusing the cable network of having been in the tank for Mitt Romney from the beginning of the Republican presidential fight. An employee himself of the news outlet …
Americans find Supreme Court, PPACA More Distasteful After Oral Arguments
Seeded on Tue Apr 3, 2012 9:39 AM EDT ()
While most Americans say last week’s Supreme Court hearings on the 2010 health care law did not change their views of the law or of the Court, they did more harm than good to the image of both.
The Price If Health Care Is Overturned: Government Run Single Payer Healthcare
Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:22 AM EDT (RealClearPolitics)
In arguments before the Supreme Court this week, the Obama administration might have done just enough to keep the Affordable Care Act from being ruled unconstitutional. Those who believe in limited government had better hope so, at least.
Conservatives' trust in science hits all-time low
Seeded on Fri Mar 30, 2012 9:20 AM EDT (Slate)
This may explain some of the rhetoric we've been hearing in GOP stump speeches of late: The number of conservatives who say they have a "great deal" of trust in science has fallen to 35 percent, down 28 points from the mid-1970s, according to a new academic paper. The study, w …
Does Antonin Scalia Know What's in the Affordable Care Law?
Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:47 AM EDT (Slate)
There was in a strange moment in today's severability argument at SCOTUS. Justice Antonin Scalia referred to a deal that Sen. Ben Nelson once made, to make a hypothetical point about what could take down the law. "If we struck down nothing in this legislation but the -- what's …
Fox News reporter: Temperature 'hasn't changed much since the Ice Age' (In reality it's 50F warmer now)
Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:43 AM EDT (Raw Story)
Fox Business reporter Tracy Byrnes says that climate change is overblown because the temperature of the Earth “basically hasn’t changed much since the Ice Age.” During his Tuesday show on the Fox Business Network, habitual climate-change denier Stuart Varney …
"It's hard to point to a single priority of the Republican Party these days that isn't steeped in moral failing while being dressed up in moral righteousness"
Seeded on Thu Mar 29, 2012 7:36 AM EDT (The Washington Post)
There is moral crisis afoot! So say the Republican candidates for president, their pals in Congress and in state houses. Abortion, gay marriage, contraception — contraception, for Pete’s sake — things that so shock the conscience that it’s a wonder The W …
Another FL "Stand Your Ground" Fiasco: Miami Judge rules man who chased burglar for more than a block before stabbing him to death acted in self defense
Seeded on Fri Mar 23, 2012 2:02 PM EDT (MiamiHerald.com)
As critics assail Florida’s “Stand Your Ground” law in the wake of the killing of an unarmed Miami Gardens teen in Sanford, a Miami-Dade judge on Wednesday cited the law in tossing out the case of a man who chased down a suspected burglar and stabbed him to de …
Keystone XL - The GOP's Plan To Raise Your Gas Prices
Thu Mar 22, 2012 10:58 AM EDT
Have a look at the satellite image at right. That's Cushing Oaklahoma, population... roundabouts 10,000. Cushing is an industrial town in the American heartland, the self-proclaimed "pipeline cross roads of the world." Those white circles are oil tanks - hundre …
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The Collapse of Employment-Based Coverage: "if health reform goes down, we're going to be looking at a wave of misery spreading across the land."
Seeded on Mon Mar 19, 2012 8:57 AM EDT (The New York Times)
What this says is that the system that has provided workable insurance coverage to many (but not enough) Americans is coming apart at the seams. And this in turn means that if health reform goes down, we’re going to be looking at a wave of misery spreading across the land …
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