Associated PressApril 2, 2020
9min256
Police rely on tips to find businesses refusing to lock down.
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Associated PressApril 2, 2020
Julie DelegalMarch 29, 20167min255
The law on employer-paid health care has taken some strange twists in light of the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2014 decision in Hobby Lobby. Its follow-up case, Zubik v. Burwell, is before the high court now. But is there a way to reconceive health benefits as pay — and therefore as something employers have no control […]
A.G. GancarskiFebruary 28, 2016
1min223
Donald Trump has criticized Marco Rubio for being a creature of lobbyists. Well, the mouthpiece of a certain “lobby” pledged his support to Florida’s junior senator Sunday. Hobby Lobby founder and CEO David Green, an Oklahoma native, endorsed Rubio Sunday ahead of Super Tuesday. Rubio “has impressed us with his preparation and the way he carries himself […]
Martin DyckmanJuly 9, 20147min160
Among the flock of on-line petitions I declined to sign last week was one calling for the impeachment of Chief Justice John Roberts and Associate Justices Samuel Alito, Anthony Kennedy, Antonin Scalia and Clarence Thomas. Much as I and others might wish them gone and forgotten, impeachment is a terrible idea. The merits aside, it […]
Guest AuthorJuly 8, 20145min202
Forget James Carville’s bloviation that “it’s the economy, stupid.” At best, his advice may apply short-term to winning elections. But if you think, as every American should, about what affects the long-term direction of the country, it’s really the U.S. Senate and the judges, stupid — especially those on the U.S. Supreme Court. Republicans have […]
Martin DyckmanJuly 7, 20147min181
No matter that the U.S. Supreme Court had ordered it, the state Supreme Court wasn’t going to let a black man attend the University of Florida law school. Writing in 1955, Justice W. Glenn Terrell claimed that Florida’s defiance in support of segregation fulfilled divine intent. “When God created man,” Terrell said, “he allotted each […]
Bob SparksJuly 7, 20147min170
One week has now passed since the United States Supreme Court decided the case officially known as Burwell vs. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc. (Hobby Lobby). A long explanation is unnecessary because if any reader is unfamiliar with this case, that reader will look no further anyway. The court created quite a dust-up. Most of the […]
Julie DelegalJuly 6, 20146min207
Now that our collective blood pressure is returning to normal, feminists need to revisit the Hobby Lobby decision with more objectivity. In a nutshell, ladies, we’ve been duped. For those readers who’ve been living under a rock, the U.S. Supreme Court voted last week, 5-4, to do two things: First, they invented a new right […]
Guest AuthorJuly 1, 20145min158
Walt Disney, whose anthropomorphic bent morphed a large, rat-like urban scavenger into beloved Bambi and made us cry, was a piker compared to today’s U.S. Supreme Court. Or at least that five-guy majority bent on turning for-profit corporations into people. Thanks to the Supremes, corporations can donate front-end loaders of cash to political causes with […]
Julie DelegalJuly 1, 20149min166
The United States Supreme Court, in its Hobby Lobby ruling on Monday, raised disturbing questions about the relationships between employers, employees, physicians and insurers. The Court ruled, in a 5-4 decision, that forcing family-owned companies to pay for insurance that covers contraception violates federal religious freedom laws. The lawsuit: The owners of Hobby Lobby and […]