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  • Obama solicitor general: If you don't like mandate, earn less money

    06/03/2011 4:02:46 AM PDT · by stevie_d_64 · 46 replies · 1+ views
    Washington Examiner ^ | 06/02/11 | Philip Klein
    President Obama's solicitor general, defending the national health care law on Wednesday, told a federal appeals court that Americans who didn't like the individual mandate could always avoid it by choosing to earn less money. Neal Kumar Katyal, the acting solicitor general, made the argument under questioning before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit in Cincinnati, which was considering an appeal by the Thomas More Law Center. (Listen to oral arguments here.) The three-judge panel, which was comprised of two Republican-appointed judges and a Democratic-appointed judge, expressed more skepticism about the government's defense of the health care...
  • Clinton Portrays Herself as a Pro-Gun Churchgoer

    04/13/2008 11:12:06 AM PDT · by stevie_d_64 · 49 replies · 1,050+ views
    NYT ^ | April 12, 2008 | Julie Bosman
    VALPARAISO, Ind. - Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton managed to co-opt Mr. Obama’s message of hope and optimism, beginning a speech in Valparaiso, Ind., by talking about how positive and “fundamentally optimistic” Americans are. “I disagree with Senator Obama’s assertion that people in our country cling to guns and have certain attitudes about immigration or trade simply out of frustration,” she said. She described herself as a pro-gun churchgoer, recalling that her father taught her how to shoot a gun when she was a young girl and said that her faith “is the faith of my parents and my grandparents.”