Aug 26, 2012
New Back Alley Emerges as U.S. Abortion Restrictions Rise Thanh Tan, reporter for the Texas Tribune, talks with Rachel Maddow about how increasing abortion restrictions in the U.S. are contributing to a “new back alley”, manifested in part in a new trend in American women seeking dangerous abortion alternatives from Mexican pharmacies. To watch the [...]
Jul 3, 2012
But Roberts is a conservative, and a very smart, forward-looking one at that. What Roberts accomplished on one issue was to enshrine two conservative ideologies — without the Democrats even noticing while they were cheering. He did this by using the Court’s ability to turn metaphors into law. He accomplished this with two votes. …First [...]
Jun 29, 2012
Even before the Supreme Court issued its ruling on NFIB v. Sebelius, the challenge to the Affordable Care Act, Fox News and CNN both announced that “Dewey Beats Truman”. And the rhetoric from the right wing has only become more wrong, more obfuscating, more incredibly uninformed. Of course part of this is just the GOP [...]
Jun 28, 2012
From Policymic by Chris Miles “In a landmark decision, the Supreme Court has ruled to uphold the individual mandate and declare Obamacare legal. “The decision is complicated and we are reading it now, but the bottom line is the entire ACA was upheld, with the exception that the federal government’s power to terminate states’ Medicaid funds [...]
Apr 22, 2012
For the past thirty years Republicans have used every argument under the Sun to convince Americans that giving the wealthy more entitlements was the path to prosperity through their absurd trickle-down economics scam. Americans never quite caught on to the theory’s failure, and during the Bush administration, Republicans promised that if the people gave more [...]
