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How a Bizarre Catch-22 Has Gutted Disability Protection in America - LeoPercipied

AP reports on a case that is disturbing on several levels. The political/religious nature of the petition-driven convening of this grand jury is front and center, yet the legal standing doesn’t appear to be in question.
Moreover, this attempt comes on the heels of an unsuccessful previous attempt at using the same grand jury tactic [...]

Krugman succinctly states the obvious:
the Graeme Frost case is a perfect illustration of the modern right-wing political machine at work, and in particular its routine reliance on character assassination in place of honest debate.
If service members oppose a Republican war, they’re “phony soldiers”;
if Michael J. Fox opposes Bush policy on stem cells, he’s [...]

Ezra Klein posted this video which could not point out any more lucidly the staggeringly craven hypocrisy of the Frost Family/S-CHIP “outrage” currently dominating the blogosphere.

As Ezra rightly points out, no one staked out their house to verify the story; nobody questioned the family’s qualifications for their suffering; no one smeared this poor girl who’s [...]

Leslee Unruh, president of National Abstinence Clearinghouse calls new birth control pill that eliminates problematic monthly mentrual periods “pesticide”
The entire discussion is so rife with contradiction and FUD that you almost have to laugh, except that people like Unruh are completely serious.
She actually had the temerity to resort to asking, “So, 12, 13-year-old girls taking [...]