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    Situational Fetus Murder

    I think it's fairly simple: pro-life folks put that provision into the law in order to make people think, "doesn't that seem contradictory? Maybe a fetus is a life!"
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    Democrat Proposes Illegal Laws

    Here's the difference: the S.D. law, as I understand, would have been either a law that would spring back into action if the SCOTUS overturned Roe, or done with the intent of forcing a legal challenge. By contrast, the Philly council is just looking to enforce a flatly (state) unconstitutional...
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    Obama’s Creepy, Race-Obsessed Church

    It's not, of course - it's about the poor and oppressed. That should ring a bell. This is still a Christian site, right?
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    Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act... or, the suppress dissent bill.

    Nope. Worst thing that happens is that your church ends up in a footnote about how rightwing terrorism is flourishing in some churches. The problem with cointelpro wasn't the think tank engagement; it was the surveillance. There's nothing in the bill OK'ing surveillance, and there are...
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    Homegrown Terrorism Prevention Act... or, the suppress dissent bill.

    The bill doesn't suppress anyone - it just sets up a think tank. Given that, I don't see any big deal. At best, it's a step in the right direction; government should be smarter in its engagement of terrorists.
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    Schools told to encourage boys to play netball and dance to 'balance gender'

    This noxious attitude is precisely why schools have been working to prevent kids from having nonsense gender stereotypes foisted on them. Thanks for proving my point.
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    Schools told to encourage boys to play netball and dance to 'balance gender'

    It's equally important that boys and girls that don't express their gender conventionally not be ostracized.
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    Elect me and oil prices instantly drop, says Hillary Clinton in Iowa

    We don't know if she did. The important part - that the drop in oil would be due solely to her election - was not part of the quote. We're relying on the accuracy of the reporter, and I don't see any good reason to do that. It's amazing how conservatives completely and conveniently "forget"...
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    The War on the Boy Scouts

    The Boy Scouts have a first am. right to free rent from the government? Amazing! How have I missed that all these years?
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    Have you considered New Jersey for your next killing?

    If I hadn't read other posts by the author of the OP, I'd assume this is a defense of NJ's decision, since it nicely satirizes the silliness of the pro-death penalty argument. Who really decides to murder first, and then picks a state based on its penal laws?
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    Landlord Seeks Rent Money From Dead Tenant.

    If the landlord wins (although I doubt he would - he's suing for post-mortem damages, and that won't cut it in court - contracts 101 tells us that contracts die with either party), the judgment attaches to the estate and the executor has to pay it. If the assets aren't liquid, an estate sale...
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    Inmate says he needs Thor's hammer, drum

    Depends on the scope of the right. I doubt there's a first amendment right to a cardboard sword. There is, however, a statutory right through the laws passed with the urging of the religious right.
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    Health Insurer to Be Charged With Teen's Murder.

    That's why insurance policy contracts are pages and pages of small print - they essentially disavow any risk and are sure to allocate it back out to the policy holder. Which is precisely the opposite of what insurance is supposed to be, as you note.
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    Inmate says he needs Thor's hammer, drum

    The religious right, IIRC, pushed for this law (the religious persons land use act, which has a section on incarcerated people), and it's led to some.....interesting, let's say, litigation. Again IIRC (but I'm pretty darn sure), the law specifically notes that the mere existence of a policy of...
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    Landlord Seeks Rent Money From Dead Tenant.

    I'm sure that's what it is. I find that journalists are regularly really sloppy with law - a reasonably intelligent reader just has to read news with that in mind.
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    Health Insurer to Be Charged With Teen's Murder.

    Nah - the question is objective: what would a reasonable insurer have done in this case? It's not subjective: did Cigna depart from its standard practice? So their change to standard practice shouldn't matter. A one-time award will be a blip on the radar screen as far as Cigna's financials go.
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    The Fair Tax Plan: Abolish the IRS

    Think of the economic incentives such an exemption would create. Any corp or person looking to invest will be price pressured into investing in land. It would create a massive bubble.
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    The Fair Tax Plan: Abolish the IRS

    The fair taxers deserve to be eaten alive for their stunning claim that a $1 purchase + $.33 = 25% tax. Usually people are stupid or dishonest. Huckabee - and any other huckster supporting the fair tax - is both.
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    Nader Haters: Get over the 2000 Election

    It sounds like the McKinney / Sheehan ticket has its PR director. Are they paying you in gold bullion, or do you get fiat money?
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    The Fair Tax Plan: Abolish the IRS

    Notably, the VAT is reduced at the corporate level by various deductions - the full VAT rate is only paid by consumers of the end product. So the stuff about fair tax hitting corps is ridiculous - we would almost certainly grant large deductions to enable corps to reduce their effective fair...