By now the nine justices on the Supreme Court have reached their decision on the King v. Burwell lawsuit. It remains a secret until the court hands down its opinion in June. The plaintiffs are four Virginia residents who have challenged the provision in the Affordable Care Act (ACA) that authorizes the Department of […]

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  The amicus briefs filed in the challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) to be argued before the Supreme Court on March 4 illuminate the Great American Political-Cultural Divide. Those who filed briefs in defense of Obama’s legislation are recognizable: the American Cancer Society, the American Academy of Pediatrics, et al. There is a […]

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  The challenge to the Affordable Care Act (ACA) heard before the U.S. Supreme Court on March 4 is supported and bankrolled by a right-wing think tank most widely known for its campaign against environmental regulation, or “eco-socialism.” The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI) was founded in 1984, backed by tobacco companies and other corporate and […]

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  1956 Dwight Eisenhower paroled 923 foreign-born orphans. 1956 Eisenhower granted immigration parole to 31,915 Hungarians. 1959-1972 Eisenhower, John F. Kennedy, Lyndon B. Johnson and Richard Nixon paroled 621,403 Cubans. 1962-1965 Kennedy and Johnson paroled 15,000 Chinese refugees. 1975-1979 Gerald Ford and Jimmy Carter, in 10 separate actions, paroled 360,000 Indochinese from Vietnam, Cambodia, and […]

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  In July 2013, a jury in federal court in Austin ruled that PlastiPure and CertiChem—two small, private labs founded by a University of Texas professor—had made false and misleading statements about plastic bottles, and about Tritan, a trademarked resin used to make the bottles. Tennessee-based Eastman Chemical had spent tens of millions of dollars […]

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