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GOP Justices Clown Over Health Care
The questions asked by the Republican partisans on the U.S. Supreme Court suggest they will overturn the Affordable Care Act. Instead of a serious debate about health care and the …
Healthcare Debate: As Supreme Court Hears Landmark Case, Does Law Do Enough to Fix Health Crisis?
As the Supreme Court weighs whether the Affordable Care Act goes too far, we host a debate on whether the law goes far enough. The case is reviving the …
Can Health Care Win by Losing at Highest Court?
A police officer stands guard as protesters gather outside the Supreme Court in Washington, March 27, 2012. The Supreme Court heard arguments on the individual mandate Tuesday, the central …
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Hard Questions From Justices Over Insurance Mandate
Washington - With the fate of President Obama's health care law hanging in the balance at the Supreme Court on Tuesday, a lawyer for the administration faced a barrage …
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ALEC Climate Change Denial Model Bill Passes in Tennessee
The month of March has seen unprecedented heat and temperatures. A rational thinking, scientifically-grounded individual could only posit, "Well, hmm, I bet climate change has something to do with the …
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Supreme Court to Hear Heart of Health Care Law Case
Supporters and opponents of the health care law demonstrate outside the Supreme Court in Washington, March 26, 2012. The Supreme Court on Monday starts three days of hearings on …
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Health Care Jujitsu
Not surprisingly, today’s debut Supreme Court argument over the so-called “individual mandate” requiring everyone to buy health insurance revolved around epistemological niceties such as the meaning of a “tax,” …
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French Muslims Fear Stigmatisation After Killings
“The murderer is gone, and now it's us who will have to live with the consequences.” That's how a Muslim shopkeeper summed up for IPS the death and legacy …
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Groups Attempt to Influence Supreme Court on Healthcare
Justice Clarence Thomas likens all the outside political pressure that the Supreme Court is facing over its review of the Obama administration's sweeping health care law to the distraction …
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Total Information Awareness: Sweeping New Surveillance Measures Approved in the US
Washington - The Obama administration is moving to relax restrictions on how counterterrorism analysts may retrieve, store and search information about Americans gathered by government agencies for purposes other …