BostonRed

Stanford University hosted a debate on whether or not the Affordable Care Act is constitutional. The debate, featuring Profs. Randy Barnett of Georgetown University School of Law, and Pamela Karlan of Stanford Law School.

The Affordable Care Act was passed by Congress and signed into law by President Obama in March 2010.

If you purchase or join a new plan on or after September 23, 2010 insurance companies must:

Cover recommended preventive services without charging out of pocket costs: Services like mammograms, colonoscopies, immunizations, pre-natal and new baby care are now covered, and insurance companies are prohibited from charging deductibles, co-payments or co-insurance.

Consumers are guaranteed the right to appeal insurance company decisions to an independent third party.

Guarantee enrollees their choice of primary care provider: Consumers have their choice of provider within the plan’s network of doctors, including OB-GYNs and pediatricians, without a referral, as well as out-of-network emergency care.

Seamus Romney was the the Irish setter who got sick while riding 12 hours on the roof of Mitt Romney’s faux-wood-paneled station wagon in 1983.

He is now part of national campaigns “Dogs Aren’t Luggage” T-shirts and Facebook groups. (“Dogs Against Romney,” which protested outside last month’s Westminster dog show, has more than 38,000 Facebook fans.) The New Yorker featured a cartoon, with Rick Santorum riding in Romney’s rooftop dog

Rush likens the reported loss of several dozen advertisers to a couple of French fries falling out of a bag: “You don’t even notice.”

Limbaugh’s fans, including public figures like Sarah Palin, have circled the wagons and take the whole controversy as further evidence the hypocritical liberal media is out to get him: Rush is the victim.New York Daily News

The controversy will boost Limbaugh’s ratings in the short term, Laurie Cantillo told the Washington Post, “but it won’t be worth the damage that’s been caused in loss of revenue and advertiser confidence.

Dennis Kucinich, the  "boy mayor" of Cleveland in the 1970s and presidential candidate, a liberal establishment in the House, conceded defeat Tuesday night in Ohio's 9th district

He fell victim to redistricting by the reactionary GOP in Ohio and a opportunist member of Congress Rep. Marcy Kaptur in the Democratic primary.

And in the end is now the Conscious of a Liberal.

The past week's political events that help shape the American body politic.

Acontecimientos políticos de la semana pasada que ayudan a conformar el cuerpo político estadounidense.

The political magazine with a full cup of Coffee and a few polling numbers in between the refills.

La revista política con una taza llena de café y algunos números de las encuestas entre las recargas.

Professor Derrick  Bell's Critical Race Theory,a supposedly incriminating clip debunks the myth of insufficient vetting of President Obama by the late Andrew Breitbart  

There is no better testament to the influence of the late Andrew Breitbart than the buzz over a 1991 video of Barack Obama at Harvard Law School that Breitbart.com is heralding. Unfortunately, the buzz also points to the other side of Breitbart's legacy: a tendency to overhype non-stories. Atlanta Monthly

Derrick  Bell, Jr. was the first tenured African-American professor of Law at Harvard University, and largely credited as the originator of Critical Race Theory. He was the former dean of the University of Oregon School of Law.  In 1959, the government asked him to resign his membership in the NAACP because it was thought that his objectivity, and that of the department, might be compromised or called into question.Bell quit rather than giving up his NAACP membership

“While they’re duking it out and beating each other up a little bit, I think there’s pros and cons that you’re hearing about in the media and so it dampens enthusiasm a little bit,” conceded Bob McDonnell Governor of Virginia

President Obama held his first formal news conference of the year at the White House. Questions from the press covered the situation in the Middle East, gas prices, immigration reform, the NATO summit in Chicago and the GOP Presidential race.

“I think it’s been the worst campaign I’ve ever seen in my life,” she said Monday at Southern Methodist University during a daylong conference on the influence of the nation’s first ladies. “I hate that people think compromise is a dirty word. It’s not a dirty word.”former first lady Barbara Bush

A preview of the 6 March 2012 Super Tuesday primary contests.

Scott Brown has pulled ahead of his likely Democratic challenger, Elizabeth Warren, by 8 percentage points in the Bay state.

Jerry Pippin(jerrypippin.com joins us for an update on Tom Coburn and Rush Limbaugh from the very Redstate of Oklahoma.