Archive for June 18th, 2012

Monday Open Thread [6-18-12]

Filed in Open Thread by MJ on June 18, 2012 • 23 Comments

Not Breaking: Justice Scalia is a Partisan Fraud

Filed in National by jason330 on June 18, 2012 • 1 Comment

In a new book released just ahead of the ‘Obamacare’ ruling, Justice Antonin Scalia is criticizing a crucial precedent underlying the constitutionality of the law’s individual mandate, even though he embraced its premise as recently as 2005.

UCLA legal scholar, Adam Winkler explains the meaning of the flip/flop.

Spot the Journalistic Fallacy

Filed in National by jason330 on June 18, 2012 • 6 Comments

We’ve had a decade of living with the havoc wrought by a radicalized GOP and an utterly impotent Democratic Party, and the press still has serious problems reporting on the modern two-party system. See if you can spot the fallacious thinking embedded in the premise of this TPM front pager.

Hard-Right Base Gives GOP
Hell On ‘Obamacare’ And Taxes

After spending President Obama’s first term emboldening the most ideologically intense elements of the conservative movement, elected Republicans are now finding themselves in a box on critical issues like health care and taxes with limited options to avert national crises.