On July 24, 2012, the San Jose Mercury News ran an article by Josh Richman and Matthew Artz, “Obama’s campaign hits Oakland. “Obama campaign hits Oakland.”

The article covers the typical campaign rhetoric. It has its requisite Romney and republican bashing, has the required promises that he will give us all everything we want if we just give him one more chance, how everything would be better already if it was not for those other guys, and of course it was all wrapped up with a large dose of scare tactics to convince those present in Oakland that the bogymen conservatives were about to take away their babies, force them into slavery to corporations and do away with fair labor practices...

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March 26, 27, and 28 2012, become the next significant dates in the future of the Affordable Care Act (ACA or Obamacare). It is on these dates a little over two weeks from now that the Supreme Court will hear arguments both challenging the constitutionality of part of the legislation and arguments as to why the court should uphold the legislation. For most of us on both sides of the aisle, involved in the debate over healthcare reform, we see this as an enigma, for widely opposite reasons, as to how we have arrived today at this point ...

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Tom Published a four part series on the relation and effects of the Commerce Clause to Health Care reform. A good primer for the upcoming debate ...

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Tom is also a prolific speaker and trusted source having appeared in numerous articles as well as a quoted expert in a variety of interviews and articles...

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