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The ‘Monsanto Protection Act’

Mar 29, 2013

The ‘Monsanto Protection Act’

5 Terrifying Things To Know About The HR 933 Provision The “Monsanto Protection Act” is the name opponents of the Farmer Assurance Provision have given to this terrifying piece of policy, and it’s a fitting moniker given its shocking content. REUTERS A maize seedling is seen in the corn greenhouse at the Monsanto Research facility [...]

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Aug 22, 2012

If Republicans hate government so much, why do they so desperately want to run (and own) ours?

Author’s note: Next week the Republicans will have their Presidential Convention, and if you listen to the Republican Politicians and the pundits, you can expect to hear a lot of talk about “Small Government”, “Limited Government”, “Low Taxes”, “Deficit Reduction” and the like. This is the first of a series that is intended to examine [...]

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Jun 28, 2012

Justice Scalia must resign

by E,J. Dionne of the Washington Post So often, Scalia has chosen to ignore the obligation of a Supreme Court justice to be, and appear to be, impartial. He’s turned “judicial restraint” into an oxymoronic phrase. But what he did this week, when the court announced its decision on the Arizona immigration law, should be [...]

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Jun 26, 2012

In Arizona dissent, Scalia blasts Obama’s deportation stay, immigration policies

Justice Antonin Scalia criticized President Barack Obama’s announcement earlier this month that he would stay the deportation of young illegal immigrants and suggested that the federal government does not want to enforce its immigration laws… …Scalia also repeatedly referenced Obama’s policy of prosecutorial discretion… …Scalia directly referred to Obama’s immigration enforcement policy as “lax”… …Arizona’s [...]

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Jun 26, 2012

The Power to Make Metaphor Into Law

Back in 1978, linguists Michael Reddy and me (George Lakoff), working independently, demonstrated that metaphor is fundamentally a matter of thought, and that metaphorical language is secondary. Conceptual metaphors shape our understanding and can determine how we reason. Consequently, metaphor is central to law, as Citizens United showed by making the metaphor Corporations Are Persons [...]

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Jun 12, 2012

IRS Denial of Tax Exemption to U.S. Political Group Spurs Alarms

An Internal Revenue Service decision revoking the tax-exempt status of a small political nonprofit organization may foreshadow an investigation into groups such as Crossroads GPS and Priorities USA that spend millions on the 2012 U.S. presidential election. At risk would be the groups’ nonprofit status, which lets them collect millions of dollars from individuals and [...]

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