- The SCOTUS is Ruining This Country | Booman Tribune
- This time, they’ve decided that you can’t hold someone criminally liable for making materially false statements on financial documents if they are working for a corporation when they make those false statements.
- The Battle Over Immigration is About to Affect All of Us in a Big Way | ACLU Blog – Christopher Calabrese
- Despite a significant error rate, pleas from multiple sectors of American business, and the heightened risk of identity theft, Congressman Lamar Smith (R-Texas) is dead-set on pushing legislation that would make the flawed E-Verify system mandatory for every U.S. worker and today he introduced H.R. 2164, the Lawful Workforce Act, which would do just that.
…E-Verify is basically a federal “right to work” list. If you are correctly entered in the system, you can start a new job.
- GOP Cuts To Food Aid For Seniors And Food Banks Equals One Day Of Bush Tax Cuts For Millionaires | Think Progress • by Pat Garofalo
- …the House is debating the Republican’s 2012 Agriculture Appropriations Bill, which, as we’ve been documenting, slashes funding for food assistance, preventing hundreds of thousands of people from accessing aid.
…at the same time that they’re slashing food assistance to ribbons, House Republicans plan to increase defense spending by $17 billion.
- The owners lay down the law: raise the debt ceiling or “we’ll get rid of you.” | Hullabaloo – digby
- Who could have ever predicted …
… that when the Chamber of Commerce president Thomas Donohue was asked if Congress was going to raise the debt ceiling, he would say:…
- Judge Ware Denies Motion To Vacate Decision Overturning Prop 8 | Alas, a blog • by Ampersand
- Judge Ware’s decision is completely unsurprising. What was surprising was that Prop 8 defendants were so desperate that they mounted this ugly and legally dubious attack on Judge Walker in the first place. Judges in future appeals on this case will be free to discard Judge Walkers legal reasoning, but they will probably defer to Walker’s findings of fact
- The Pregnancy Cult | Feministe • by Jill
- A lady’s story of utilizing the services a “pro-life” crisis pregnancy center to get free stuff, even though she had no plans to terminate her pregnancy. Bonus: Free stuff. Downside: Total assholes.
“…I was given a schedule. I would come back every week for a three-hour session. …tell me what a horrible person I was for being in such a marriage where I refused to accept my husband’s ruling with an iron fist. ‘Spare the rod and spoil the child is meant for the wife as well in some more difficult cases,’ they said. I was routinely told that if I did not accept Jesus Christ as my savior I would go to hell no matter how I had lived my life or what good deeds I did. For each session, I would get points. The points led to baby items. I was determined to get a pram…”
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