2012 Presidential Election Year

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Rodeo Bull Jumps Into Stands

The former Alaskan governor is losing ground in a traditional bellwether state

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Palin’s popularity falling in Iowa

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Canadian Death Panels in Action: Hospital Refuses Life-Prolonging Tracheotomy For 13-Month-Old Baby

Khyra Ishaq weighed just 2st 7lb when she died in May 2008 – despite living in a house with a well-stocked kitchen Angela Gordon, the mother, is complaining of not having enough to eat while in prison. Beotch has gained weight. DailyMail Khyra suffered for months at the hands of Gordon and her schizophrenic boyfriend Junaid Abuhamza – who was given an indefinite sentence for manslaughter – before her death. She was beaten with a bamboo cane, forced to stand outside in her underwear for hours and had lost 40 per cent of her body weight when she died She and five other children in the house were fed ‘like puppies’ from bowls in their upstairs bedroom in Handsworth, Birmingham, the court heard. This was part of a code introduced by Abuhamza, a Muslim convert, to teach them the ‘Islamic perspective about being dutiful to your parents ‘. He cut down portions and then denied them meals altogether when he felt they misbehaved. Khyra died in a ‘skeletal condition’ in a house with an ‘abundance of food’, despite being monitored and visited by at least nine social workers, education officers, teachers and police .[ More.. ] Gawd, is this PC gone wild? or what.. RIP little one.

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ROPMA Abusive Parenting: Mother jailed for starving her seven-year-old daughter to death

Reuters – The Senate could vote this week on Republican proposals that will ensure some government payments continue uninterrupted if Congress fails to approve increased federal borrowing authority, congressional aides said on Monday.

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South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley suggests House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s best years may be behind him

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Nikki Haley offers hints at 2012 endorsement

Some readers have interpreted my earlier post as a defense of the president’s position on the Defense of Marriage Act. It is not. I think Obama is wrong on DOMA’s constitutionality, is constitutionally obligated to enforce DOMA as long as it remains on the books, and that his Justice Department would be right to defend the law against dubious constitutional challenges. But I do think some conservatives are using a bad argument against Obama’s position: they are invoking the Supreme Court as the sole arbiter of what is constitutional. The Supreme Court has seldom protected the Republic from any of the unconstitutional growth of the federal government since FDR’s Court-packing scheme. It has much more often struck down legitimate state and local laws on behalf of liberal social engineers, especially since the Warren Court. Accepting the notion that the Constitution means whatever judges say it means — and that the elected branches of government have no right to publicly express their independent judgements about the constitutionality of federal activities — won’t get conservatives where they want to go even if it is a convenient argument to make at this particular moment. An intellectual exercise: Would you believe Obamacare was suddenly constitutional if the Supreme Court declined to overturn it? If the Court not only decided to overturn DOMA but issued a Roe v. Wade of gay marriage, would you believe the people who wrote and ratified the Constitution intended that result? Was the original Roe a correct reading of the Constitution? If you answered “no” to any of these questions, you’ll see why arguing that only the Supreme Court can decide what is constitutional is counterproductive at best.

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The Constitution and the Courts

The Iranian government thinks Olympic logo is some sort of anti-Semitic Rorschach test . Madison, Wisconsin is the ” Athens of the West .” Did Daniel Patrick Moynihan predict the public sector union crisis ?

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Happy Hour: Do We Want the Police to Take Sides in Political Disputes?