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Monday, 3 October 2011
Tarkenton: Teacher unions offsides
He compares U.S. educational policies with football.
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Perry?s Link to N-Word Place Name Puts Campaign on Defensive
Gov. Rick Perry of Texas found himself on the defensive on Sunday over a report that he had hunted at a camp with a racially charged name that his father, and later Mr. Perry, had leased.
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Pride may be a problem when Bloomberg testifies in court
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Defense lawyers are hoping New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg's famous self-confidence will be his downfall when he testifies on Monday against the political consultant accused of stealing more than $1 million from him, legal and political experts say. 
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Sunday, 2 October 2011
Open thread for night owls
When President Obama welcomed the chief executives from 13 of the nation?s biggest banks to the White House last Friday, White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs billed it as a ?good, productive, and frank? conversation. Emphasis, it appears, on the frank. As first reported by Politico?s Eamon Javers, and confirmed by ABC News with industry sources, some bankers gave explanations for the industry?s high salaries, such as "competing for talent on an international market." But, President Obama cut them off. "My administration is the only thing between you and the pitchforks," the president told them.
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Obama and race: More green than black and white
African-American Democrats' support for President Obama's programs, their belief in his leadership and enthusiasm for another term is softening just as he needs it most. 
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As Knox trial nears climax, the world watches
Sunday Journal: As the Amanda Knox trial comes to a head, Peter Van Sant examines the case 
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Obama's healthcare law tops new Supreme Court term
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul will top the agenda in the new Supreme Court term that opens on Monday and could be the most momentous in decades. 
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40 detained at Moscow gay rights rally
Saturday’s protest was one of the few gay rights events sanctioned by authorities.
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Health-care law opens new fronts in abortion wars
A year after its passage, the federal health-care overhaul is opening fresh battlefields in an old and bitter debate. Almost immediately after the law took effect, five states passed bills that will prohibit private insurance plans sold on new state-based marketplaces from covering abortion, except...
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Obama criticizes Republican rivals in speech to gays
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama criticized Republican presidential candidates on Saturday for not defending a gay American soldier who was booed by the crowd at a Republican debate last week. 
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Saturday, 1 October 2011
The Plum Line: Newsflash -- Recalls are legitimate in Wisconsin
Ezra Klein, on last night's events in Wisconsin: It seems to me that the system worked. Democrats were able to slow the process down and convince both voters in Wisconsin and the national media that there was something beyond business as usual happening in Madison. National and state polls sh...
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House GOP offers new stopgap spending measure
House Republicans propose to keep the government running with a three-week stopgap measure, allowing Congress and the White House a little more time to haggle over an elusive long-term resolution to the 2011 federal budget
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Democrats seek new ways to fund Obama jobs bill
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Barack Obama's fellow Democrats in the Senate are exploring fresh ways to pay for his stalled $447 billion jobs program that go beyond simply raising taxes on the rich, key lawmakers said on Friday. 
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U.S. issues travel alert after Awlaki death
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The State Department issued a worldwide travel alert on Saturday warning of the possibility of anti-American attacks in response to the killing of two top al Qaeda members. 
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At Fund-Raisers, $35,800 to Meet the President
Some events glitter with celebrities and millionaires; others do not.
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Health care promises landmark high court term
One of the little-known prerogatives of the U.S. Supreme Court is the justices' discretion to refuse any case on the merits presented to them for review. Only one in 10 petitions actually gets accepted. But though the justices usually say no, when epic disputes arrive at the courthouse steps -- by tradition and political reality -- the nine members know they are powerless to turn away. 
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Justice Stevens: Health care law has legal support
Retired Supreme Court Justice John Paul Stevens thinks that clear legal precedent is on the side of the Obama administration when the Affordable Care Act advances to the Supreme Court. He's basing that conclusion on the precedent set in a 2005 medical marijuana decision by the court.
Stevens, now 91 and more than a year into retirement, said in an interview in Washington this week that he is skeptical about contentions that Congress lacked authority to pass the health-care measure, which requires Americans to either buy insurance or pay a penalty.Stevens wrote the court?s opinion in the 2005 case, a 6-3 ruling that let the federal government ban marijuana even when the drug doesn?t cross state lines and is used only for medicinal purposes. As with health care, that case centered on Congress?s power to regulate interstate commerce.
?To the extent that the commerce clause is an issue in the case, it just seems to me very similar? to the medical marijuana dispute, said Stevens, who served on the court for 34 years.[...]
The 2005 marijuana ruling will be a pivotal precedent when the justices consider the health-care law. In his opinion for the court then, Stevens pointed to a constitutional provision letting Congress enact laws "necessary and proper" for carrying out powers specifically mentioned in the Constitution.
The majority included Justices Antonin Scalia and Anthony Kennedy, both of whom had voted to restrict Congress?s commerce- clause power in earlier cases. Scalia didn?t adopt Stevens?s reasoning, instead providing his own analysis in a concurring opinion.
Stevens suggested Scalia might be willing to uphold the health-care law even if he disagrees with its substance.
?I would expect that the merits wouldn?t have the slightest impact on his analysis of the constitutional issue,? Stevens said. ?I?m sure he?ll approach it as a judge should approach it.?
For her part, court-watcher Dahlia Lithwick agrees, arguing that the Roberts court isn't likely to be that activist during an election year.
I remain unsure that there just are five justices at the high court eager to have the court itself become an election-year issue. I don't think Chief Justice John Roberts wants to borrow that kind of partisan trouble again so soon after Citizens United, the campaign-finance case that turned into an Obama talking point. And I am not certain that the short-term gain of striking down some or part of the ACA (embarrassing President Obama even to the point of affecting the election) is the kind of judicial end-game this court really cares about. Certainly there are one or two justices who might see striking down the ACA as a historic blow for freedom. But the long game at the court is measured in decades of slow doctrinal progress?as witnessed in the fight over handguns and the Second Amendment?and not in reviving the stalled federalism revolution just to score a point.
We shall see next June, probably. For its part, the National Federation of Independent Businesses is eager to ensure that happens. They just filed an appeal to the Supreme Court of a decision by the U.S. appeals court in Atlanta that struck down the mandate, but not the entire law.
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