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The Supreme Court today began hearing the case to repeal the Affordable Care Act on the basis of its constitutionality. The public sessions started Monday with 90 minutes of lively debate on a legally dense, but nonetheless important, question. It boils down to whether the health care law’s key provision is a “tax” that could prevent the court from considering …

In the Catholic Church’s national campaign to make themselves ever more repulsive to the average American, the Diocese of Sacramento has cut off their funding of a local homeless shelter because its new director supports marriage equality. In a letter last month, the diocese’s director of social services said the Rev. Faith Whitmore’s public statements on the issues clash with …

27M views in three days. The Guardian has questions. Since Monday more than 21m people have viewed this film, made by an American charity called Invisible Children, about the plight of children in Uganda at the hands of the warlord Joseph Kony, leader of the guerilla group the Lords Resistance Army. His army is said to have abducted 60,000 children. …

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Fast and expected.

He keeps handing us sound bites.

It’s not in the clip, but did you catch the part where the crowd booed Mitt Romney’s Mexican heritage? The crowd also booed the moderator when he asked Newt Gingrich about food stamps. Mexicans? BOOOO. Poor people? BOOOO. As always, you can’t make it up.NOTE: Romney has Mexican relatives because they fled there to avoid prosecution for polygamy.

“We should not have a government-run health care system.” (If you’re dumb enough to be poor and sick, fuck you, just die.)

“You know, I think it’s about envy. I think it’s about class warfare. When you have a president encouraging the idea of dividing America based on the 99 percent versus one percent — and those people who have been most successful will be in the one percent — you have opened up a whole new wave of approach in this …

Shorter Santorum: Fuck off and die, poor people!

Zillionaire Mitt Romney is a man of the people, a common man, somebody who knows how tough things are for the poor. Fox host Chris Wallace pressed Romney on his support for the Ryan budget, suggesting that Ryan’s plans to eliminate $700 billion in aid to states, including $127 billion in food stamps, would make Romney vulnerable to Democratic attacks …

More of that Christian Love™ from Michele Bachmann.