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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s “Caskets R Us!”

Supreme Court AdLib - March 30, 2012 77

In his slippery slope argument against the ACA, Justice Alito simply asks us to consider all the people who've been bankrupted and have lost their homes having to pay for their own sudden burial and the ongoing costs of remaining dead.

What If? The Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court

Supreme Court MurphTheSurf3 - March 26, 2012 104

If the Court finds the mandate unconstitutional, will they find it severable from the rest of the law? If not, that would strike the whole ACA down. If so, can the ACA survive?

Periodic Table of Dangerous Elements: 2012 Election Edition

Supreme Court KQµårk 死神 - January 21, 2012 36

Just in time for the 2012 election PlanetPOV presents the new Periodic Table of Dangerous Elements. There are plenty of new infamous characters added...

Free to Assemble- Not in Indiana; A GOP Tactic at Work

Supreme Court MurphTheSurf3 - January 2, 2012 13

If you don't want to hear it- shut them down, keep them out.

Giving Corporations the Death Penalty

Supreme Court AdLib - April 26, 2011 42

If corporations are people and corporations destroy other corporations, aren't they guilty of murder?

No One Listens to the President

Supreme Court Marion - March 28, 2011 7

Then they start bitching about what he didn't say and should have said, and how he should have said what he did say differently. They twist and turn and bend and break down and analyse and parse his every word.....

How do you Build a Million Dollar Mousetrap that Steals Cheese

Supreme Court Smedley Butler - March 15, 2011 57

Why is politics so mind bogglingly complicated? You often hear conversation about the host of complex problems we face today and that these issues cannot...

TAKE ACTION: Join the Protest Against the Koch Conference in Palm Springs

Supreme Court AdLib - January 23, 2011 35

The Koch cabal is meeting this weekend in Palm Springs to plot their next steps to buy and control our democracy. Join an alliance of Progressives and moderates in exposing and protesting their destructive agenda.

Has Democracy Outlived Its Usefulness?

Supreme Court AdLib - November 15, 2010 69

Kesmarn's brilliant article, Please, tear that price tag off!, impresses the powerful image of our democracy and citizenry as a 500 pound patient, too...

Elena Kagan Nominated to the SCOTUS

Supreme Court KQµårk 死神 - May 10, 2010 30

Here we go again with the hyperbole from both sides. A left wing ideologue that is gonna kill babies and take away our guns...

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Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito’s “Caskets R Us!”

What If? The Affordable Care Act and the Supreme Court

Periodic Table of Dangerous Elements: 2012 Election Edition

Free to Assemble- Not in Indiana; A GOP Tactic at Work

Giving Corporations the Death Penalty

No One Listens to the President

How do you Build a Million Dollar Mousetrap that Steals Cheese

TAKE ACTION: Join the Protest Against the Koch Conference in Palm Springs

Has Democracy Outlived Its Usefulness?

Elena Kagan Nominated to the SCOTUS

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