Articles on the impact of the 2012 elections on our judicial system and health care policy, Paul Ryan’s reactionary budgets and bad debate performance, and how Mitt Romney dodges taxes and failed to be a bipartisan leader in Massachusetts.

Republicans are looking for every way possible to screw the middle class.

Why does the GOP hate Obamacare? Because it will help people.

Fast and Furious is a witch hunt, trickle-down doesn’t work, there’s no reason for states to turn down the Affordable Care Act.

Almost everyone in the political world is eagerly awaiting the Supreme Court’s ruling on health care reform, which is expected to be issued at 10am eastern time on Thursday.

If the Supreme Court throws out Obamacare, in whole or in part, California will be prepared with legislation of its own.

Winning Progressive takes on Mitt Romney’s lack of a health care reform plan with the hard answers we all need.

The stories you may have missed this week.

For this weekend’s reading list, we have an interview with the author of a new book on how to tackle the deficit without destroying government, a critique of the GOP’s ‘faith-based’ economic theories, a study on conservative media bias that helped destroy ACORN, an accounting of how states have been unable to reform health insurance, an analysis of how computerized voter registration systems would increase voting rolls while saving money, and a critique of Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel’s undemocratic governance.

The Koch Brothers and the Uber-Rich they’ve assembled are poised to take down the president and ultimately destroy the American middle class.

While the Affordable Care Act is far from perfect, it includes numerous historic provisions that will greatly benefit the American people and our health care system.

If the individual mandate does indeed get struck down, the whole law ostensibly goes out the window. One cannot survive without the other.

According to Fox News and their viewers, one of the new T-Shirts put out by the Obama Campaign is highly ‘vulgar’ and ‘naughty.’

For this weekend’s reading list we have a primer on the upcoming health care reform arguments at the Supreme Court, an article on improving public schools, an economics paper on the government revenue benefits of stimulus spending, an interview regarding removing urban freeways as a method for increasing urban redevelopment, and how GOP Rep. Ryan’s proposed budget socks it to the poor and working class.

In a two-party system, a far better approach on fiscal issues is to elect the side that is more serious about finding ways to responsibly address long term health care costs and push them to do even more, rather than promoting a destructive and self-defeating fantasy about third party candidates.

Sadly it appears that the message sent by the voters when the anti-immigrant, anti-union, anti-healthcare reform senate president Russell Pearce was recalled last November is being ignored by the rank and file in the legislature.

It’s hard these days to be a pragmatic progressive. We who would sacrifice perfection to get things done are left staring into the eyes of an opposition party that takes the word, opposition, so literally, they are even willing to oppose themselves.

The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that it will hold oral arguments on March 26, 27, and 28 in the cases it has agreed to hear that challenge the constitutionality of President Obama’s historic health care reform legislation, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.

It is indeed the bombshell news that many have been waiting for, but not many expected. America is well on its way to having a single-payer system.

What was noteworthy about last Thursday evening’s Federalist Society dinner was who, all these plutocrats chose to honor: Supreme Court Justices Clarence Thomas and Antonin Scalia.