You’re right, Mitt. We’re not interested in your birth certificate. But we sure would like to see your tax returns.
http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/romney-makes-birther-joke-michigan-no-one-ever-165422639.html
Category: Politics, Religion & Money
Reading Left to Right
According to Amazon’s Election Heatmap, books catering to conservatives sell better in most states than books for liberals like me. The “bluest” and “reddest” states are Vermont and Mississippi, respectively.
Legitimate pregnancy
Representative Todd Akin of Missouri, a resolute abortion opponent, said of the possibility that pregnancy will result from a rape, “If it’s a legitimate rape, the female body has ways to try to shut that whole thing down.” Following that logic, legitimate murders (where the victim doesn’t want to die) shouldn’t result in death.
I’m an American citizen!
I’ve been an American since birth, but even if I weren’t I know I could be one, after taking the U.S. Citizen Naturalization Test, because I answered all 96 questions correctly. I semi-guessed on only a couple of them.
Was Wertham right?
I have tickets for a Sunday noon showing of the Batman movie at an IMAX theater. I’m waiting for somebody to say that the horror at last night’s midnight show in Aurora, Colorado was due to the availability of comic books.
Date: Fri, 20 Jul 2012 05:11:02 -0400
From: “CNN Breaking News”CNN Breaking News BreakingNews@mail.cnn.com via ema3lsv06.turner.com
10:55 AM (5 minutes ago)“Such violence, such evil is senseless,” President Obama said in response to mass shooting at Colorado movie theater.
President Obama should be saying, “It’s time to reinstate the assault weapons ban.”
Dewey defeats Truman again
In this online age, when a headline can be published instantly, how could CNN get it 100%, 180 degrees wrong, about the Supreme Court’s decision on the health care mandate?
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10:09 AM (28 minutes ago)
The Supreme Court has struck down the individual mandate for health care – the legislation that requires all to have health insurance.
The Scotusblog got it right…
10:08 Amy Howe: The individual mandate survives as a tax.
… and it was another ten minutes before CNN corrected itself.
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10:18 AM (18 minutes ago)
Correction: The Supreme Court backs all parts of President Obama?s signature health care law, including the individual mandate that requires all to have health insurance.