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Judge hears arguments over Arizona immigration law
Source: Jacques Billeaud & Paul Davenport (AP) www.google.com/hostednews – July 22, 2010
PHOENIX — The Arizona immigration law came under new legal scrutiny in a packed courtroom Thursday as a federal judge considered whether the crackdown should take effect next week amid a flurry of legal challenges.
Changing Stance, Administration Now Defends Insurance Mandate as a Tax
Source: Robert Pear, www.nytimes.com, July 16, 2010
WASHINGTON — When Congress required most Americans to obtain health insurance or pay a penalty, Democrats denied that they were creating a new tax. But in court, the Obama administration and its allies now defend the requirement as an exercise of the government’s “power to lay and collect taxes.”
Unsatisfactory Answers on the New Black Panther Case
Source: Hans A. von Spakovsky, www.nationalreview.com, Monday, July 19, 2010
I watched NRO’s own Jim Geraghty this Sunday on Howard Kurtz’s Reliable Sources, discussing the lack of coverage of the New Black Panther Party case by the mainstream media. Both the Washington Times and National Review have been covering this story for the past year while the New York Times and the Washington Post ignored it.
Elena Kagan approved by Senate Judiciary Committee
Source: David G. Savage, www.latimes.com, - July 21, 2010
Democratic and Republican senators alike lamented the increasingly sharp partisan divide over the Constitution and the courts Tuesday, and then divided mostly along party lines to approve Elena Kagan, President Obama's nominee for the Supreme Court.
House panel charges New York Rep. Charles Rangel with ethics misdeeds
Source: Mcauliff, DAILY NEWS WASHINGTON BUREAU, www.nydailynews.com, – July 22, 2010
It looks like Rep. Charlie Rangel will finally get his day in court. A House panel said Thursday that its investigative subcommittee charged the Harlem Democrat with multiple ethics violations, and it will form an "adjudicatory subcommittee" to weigh the matter.
President Obama Signs into Law Financial ‘Reform; Families Will Suffer
Source: Catherine Snow, www.CitizenLink.com – July 22, 2010
Law will ‘actually make even credit-worthy families and businesses unable to access the credit they need to invest in their futures.’
President Obama signed into law Wednesday the massive 2,400-page Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act – the most consequential piece of legislation affecting the financial sector since the Great Depression.
Calling all Kennedys: When Sen. Carte Goodwin (D-W.Va.) was sworn in earlier this week, he added another chapter to a family regarded as the "Kennedys of West Virginia".
Goodwin's father -- the late Stephen Patrick Goodwin -- chaired West Virginia University's board of governors; his uncle, Joseph, is a federal judge and his cousin, Robert Booth Goodwin, is a U.S. Attorney. Goodwin's wife, Rochelle, serves as state director for the state's senior senator, Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) (himself no stranger to political dynasties).
Lost in Taxation
Source: (Opinion) www.wsj.com, July 17, 2010
The IRS's vast new ObamaCare powers.If it seems as if the tax code was conceived by graphic artist M.C. Escher, wait until you meet the new and not improved Internal Revenue Service created by ObamaCare. What, you're not already on a first-name basis with your local IRS agent?
In campaign mode, Obama slams GOP as obstructionist
Republicans criticize his decision to vacation in Maine and his recess appointment of a key healthcare official.
Source: Peter Nicholas and Michael A. Memoli, www. latimes.com - July 18, 2010
Moving into campaign mode, President Obama on Saturday cast the Republicans as an obstructionist force bent on impeding the nation's economic recovery for political purposes.
Health lawsuit
Source: (Editorial) www.seMissourian.com - Monday, July 19, 2010
When the federal government imposes mandates that will affect -- at enormous expense -- all of us for decades to come, there is every expectation on the part of taxpayers that such sweeping changes will be constitutional and legal. That's why nearly half of the states have filed lawsuits raising serious questions about the new federal health care law.
Retraining in Michigan has mixed results
Source: www.UPI.com, July 1, 2010
Job retraining in Michigan is showing mixed results with many dropouts, many still in school and some with jobs they enjoy, program analysts said. Undeniably, the No Worker Left Behind program was popular with 130,000 enrolled in the program and 20,000 on waiting lists as some regions ran out of funds for training, The Detroit News reported Thursday.
President Obama signs six-month extension of emergency unemployment benefits
Source: Lori Montgomery, www.washingtonpost.com, Friday, July 23, 2010
President Obama signed a six-month extension of emergency jobless benefits for the long-term unemployed on Thursday, restoring aid to nearly 3 million people whose checks have been cut off since the program expired in early June.
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