Health Care Reform, SCOTUS, and Civil Rights Reform

So here it is. This term the Supreme Court will decide the fate of the Affordable Care Act, a fact that given the fight for passage and then fight in the courts, is not that surprising.
So far the bulk of the focus has revolved around the individual mandate, perhaps the least popular provision of the [...]

Austerity and the Conservative Dog Whistle

Words matter.  Definitions count. Take rape, for example.  House Republicans apparently believe that rape is only really rape if it involves force.  You’d be hard pressed to get Rep. John Boehner to publicly admit as much, but he doesn’t have to.  He just needs to stand behind one of his first policy priorities of the [...]

American Exceptionalism Moves To The Boardroom?

Instead of simply calling out the racists trying to repeal the 14th Amendment, how about we do a little horse-trading and swap out birthright citizenship in exchange for corporate personhood.