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• The F Word: Stupak vs. The Nuns

  March 20, 2010

  Poor Bart Stupak. Apparently his life has become a living hell. That's according to a recent profile in The Hill. Ever since he started trying to hold health care reform for ransom over abortion, he's had to deal with critics. He's had to deal, for example, with receiving letters from religious leaders representing 59,000 Catholic nuns.

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• States' Rights, Wafaa Bilal, and Budrus

  March 19, 2010

  As the health care bill drags toward a finish line, conservative opponents of the bill are raising a specter with some long history--"States' Rights." They claim to be able to nullify the federal reform bill on the state level, but the argument for states' rights has been made before to prevent progressive action from being taken, particularly around racial equality

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