Posted on December 25, 2007 by truthmonk
Health insurance company denies life-saving treatment – girl dies
Or happy Christmas, the compassionate conservative Republican style
December 21, 2007 By Brother Grim Reaper
Summary:
(Nataline Sarkisyan, 17) + (need for liver transplant) + (CIGNA health insurer) = death
Example of:
1.
There are real life consequences, including death, for being denied treatment.
2.
Health insurer overriding treatment diagnosis by patient’s [...]
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Posted on December 24, 2007 by truthmonk
Introducing Brother Grim Reaper
Brother Grim Reaper has joined the Ministry of Enlightenment
Brother Grim Reaper comes to our monastery from the Eleusinian Mysteries. Demeter, the goddess of agriculture and fertility, promise her daughter, Persephone, to him as his bride. The scythe was given to him by Demeter as a symbol of her promise. However, Persephone’s father [...]
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Posted on December 10, 2007 by truthmonk
Is this why the Democrats are Complicit?
The Washington Post reported that four members of Congress were brief on CIA interrorgation technques.
"Yet long before "waterboarding" entered the public discourse, the CIA gave key legislative overseers about 30 private briefings, some of which included descriptions of that technique and other harsh interrogation methods, according to interviews with [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2007 by truthmonk
Secret Legal DOJ Memos on Presidential Powers
December 7, 2007 – Today Senator Sheldon Whitehouse delivered remarks on a set of Office of Legal Counsel, Department of Justice legal opinions on Presidential powers.
The three declassified legal propositions are:
An executive order cannot limit a President. There is no constitutional requirement for a President to issue a new [...]
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Posted on December 5, 2007 by truthmonk
Supreme Conflict
The Inside Story of the Struggle for Control of the United States Supreme Court
By Jan Crawford Greenburg
Supreme Conflict
368 pages. Penguin Press HC. 2007.
Jan Crawford Greenburg has written in Supreme Conflict a fast-moving account about the fight for control of the Supreme Court.
Beginning in the 1950s civil rights groups increasingly turned to the [...]
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