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New nullification twist in the war on Obamacare: MO edition

January 14, 2014 Gloria Shur Bilchik ACA/Obamacare, Federalism, Health care, Missouri region, Republicans, States Leave a comment

My very own Missouri State Senator, Republican John Lamping, has introduced a bill into the 2014 Missouri legislature that would, according to the St.

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Four ways Republicans are guilty of attempting to murder democracy

September 19, 2013 Gloria Shur Bilchik Civil Rights, Federalism, Government, History, Ideas, Politics, Republicans, States Leave a comment

American democracy—or, at least, the flawed, but better-than-the-alternative system that we call democracy—is under attack, and not from Muslim terrorists. Our democratic system, with

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