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Does Roberts believe what he wrote?
Why not just cut open a goat and be done with it? In ancient Rome, a special kind of priest called a haruspex would "read" the entrails of sheep to divine the will of the gods, the health of the growing season, or whatever else was weighing on the...
Tags: John G. Roberts, Jr., NPR, Twitter, Inc., Radio, Thomas Jefferson
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Obamacare: the 2,300-page monstrosity
The most important six hours of recent American history will start to unfold on Monday. That day, the Supreme Court begins three days of oral argument on the legal challenge to President Barack Obama's health care reform law ("Obamacare"). The Court's...
Tags: Lawyers, Thomas Mann, Laws, Republican Party, Health Care Reform (2009)
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Obamacare: the 2,300-page monstrosity
The most important six hours of recent American history will start to unfold on Monday. That day, the Supreme Court begins three days of oral argument on the legal challenge to President Barack Obama's health care reform law ("Obamacare"). The Court's...Tags: Thomas Mann, Lawyers, Laws, Republican Party, Health Care Reform (2009)
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The case for Obamacare
After three days of arguments before the U.S. Supreme Court, the case for the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act, better known as "Obamacare," remains strong. Four members of the court, including the justice expected to be the key swing vote...
Tags: Lawyers, John G. Roberts, Jr., Laws, Health Care Reform (2009), Samuel A. Alito
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Reading the court's mind
The Supreme Court's three days of arguments on the constitutionality of the Obama health care law have triggered a guessing game, replacing for the moment the 2012 presidential campaign as topic A on the nation's nonstop talk shows. Did the justices'...
Tags: John Paul Stevens, Republican Party, Newt Gingrich, Barack Obama, Regional Elections
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What does Ruth Bader Ginsburg mean by 'conservative'?
Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburglikes the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka "Obamacare." Why, she asked toward the end of three days of hearings, shouldn't the court...
Tags: Philosophy, Ronald Reagan, People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, William F. Buckley, Anthony Kennedy
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Hey, Justice Scalia: Mandate prevents freeloading
In the arguments before the Supreme Court on the individual mandate portion of the Affordable Care Act, Justice Antonin Scalia likened it to a slippery slope that could lead to the federal government forcing citizens to buy broccoli. In response, U.S....Tags: Health Insurance Cost, Theft, Health Insurance, Healthcare Policies
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Obamacare: High court is just doing its job
Both Eileen Ambrose ("Oppose health care act at your own risk," April 1) and Dan Rodricks ("Razing the JFX, lowering O's expectations," April 3) miss the issue before the Supreme Court. The issue has nothing to do with the provisions of the Patient...Tags: Barack Obama, Democratic Party, Health Care Reform (2009), U.S. Senate
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Rodricks is spot on about 'spot on'
Thanks to Dan Rodricks for shining the spotlight on that annoying expression, "spot on" ("Razing the JFX, lowering O's expectations," April 2). It is a British way of thinking that something can be perfectly correct, while in America we know that...Tags: Health Insurance Cost, National Government, Government
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Big Brother on your bumper
In George Orwell's novel "1984," the unblinking eye of government surveillance is omnipresent and inescapable. Orwell could not have known what technology would one day make his nightmare scenario possible, but he could foresee that whatever it was, the...Tags: Political Corruption, Punishment, Sonia Sotomayor, Punishment, Justice System
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Who will win Iowa, the most conservative or the most electable?
Now that the seven Republican presidential hopefuls have had their last televised debate before the Jan. 3 Iowa precinct caucuses, they have barely two weeks of on-the-ground campaigning to answer the two key questions facing the voters.
The big one...Tags: Republican Party, Jon Huntsman, Jr., Newt Gingrich, Thomas Jefferson, Media Industry
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