Mark Maynard | Affordable Care Act

No Rubbers at Domino’s Farms: Tom Monaghan granted another temporary injunction against Obamacare contraception mandate by Judge Lawrence Zaktoff

By Mark | March 17, 2013

Finding common cause with the freedom fighters of the adult film industry, Domino’s Pizza founder Tom Monaghan won a big legal victory late last week, ensuring, at least for the time being, that he’d be able to keep his Michigan workplace condom-free. On Thursday afternoon, U.S. District Judge Lawrence Zatkoff ruled in Tom Monaghan’s favor, [...]

Posted in Ann Arbor, Michigan | Also tagged Ave Maria, Boogie Down Productions, Catholicism, Christian dominionists, College Republicans, contraception, discrimination, Domino's Farms, Domino's Pizza, family planning, fundamentalist religion, hypocrisy, injunction, jimmy hat, Justin Zatkoff, Lawrence Paul Zatkoff, legal discrimination, Obamacare, religion, rewriting history, Scientology, separation of church and state, Texas, Tom Monaghan, University of Detroit Mercy | 22 Comments

Anti-abortion “personhood” legislation comes back to Michigan… with a new twist

By Mark | November 24, 2012

Conservative legislators in several states, knowing that a Constitutional amendment to outlaw abortion is unlikely, have begun attempts to work around the Supreme Court’s Roe v. Wade decision. Most notably, these legislative attempts have involved, in some way, shape or form, the concept of personhood – the notion that a fertilized egg is in fact [...]

Posted in Michigan, Uncategorized | Also tagged abortion, Alabama, fetus, Georgia, House Bill 5684, House Bill 5685, Jeff Irwin, Jud Gilbert, Lisa Posthumus Lyons, Mississippi, Oklahoma, old white men making decisions on women's health, Paul Ryan, personhood, Progress Michigan, reproductive justice, Roe v. Wade, Sanctity of Human Life Act, tax breaks, tax code, tax credits, Todd Akin, Virginia, women's health, Zach Pohl | 19 Comments

The New Yorker enthusiastically endorses Obama, saying his reelection is “a matter of great urgency”

By Mark | October 26, 2012

God, I love the New Yorker. Their endorsement of Obama is one of the very best things that I’ve read over the course of this past year. It’s thoughtful, comprehensive, and brilliantly written. Following are two brief clips. One pertains to Obama. The other pertains to Romney. I’d highly recommend following the link, though, and [...]

Posted in Media, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged 47%, American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, AmeriCorps, Ayn Rand, bipartisanship, Bush, civil rights, class warfare, Dodd–Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, Elena Kagan, equal pay for equal work, FDR, Freeloading 47, gay rights, Global Warming, Guantánamo, gun control, infrastructure, Lilly Ledbetter Fair Pay Act, marriage equality, New Deal, Obama, Obama is a Socialist, Obamacare, Pell grants, predator drones, Republican lies, Republican obstructionism, right-wing extremism, Romney, Sonia Sotomayor, stimulus, Supreme Court, women's rights | 17 Comments

Syed Taj on the separation of church and state, going up against extremist conservative candidates, and running for the House of Representatives as a Muslim

By Mark | October 14, 2012

I’ve spent a great deal of time these past few weeks explaining why it is that I think that folks shouldn’t vote for either the Tea Party activist Kerry Bentivolio or the white supremacist Daniel Johnson in the race to represent Michigan’s 11th congressional district, but I haven’t really made the case as to why [...]

Posted in Michigan, Politics, Uncategorized | Also tagged Anybody but Thadeus, Canton, Canton Board of Trustees, charter schools, Dearborn Heights, Garden City, Grand Valley, Islam, Kerry Bentivolio, Libertarianism, Liberty for All, Lyndon LaRouche, Medicare, Muslim, Novi, Obamacare, outer space, Plymouth, political ads, public, Redford, redistricting, Republican lies, Romney, separation of church and state, Sharia law, social security, Syed Taj, Thaddeus McCotter | 72 Comments

Ben Cohen on Occupy, independent business networks, and defacing currency to save our Democracy

By Mark | May 19, 2012

I had the opportunity yesterday, at the BALLE conference, to hear ice cream magnate Ben Cohen, of Ben and Jerry’s fame, talking about the point of intersection where the local business movement, Occupy Wall Street and the campaign to “get the money out of politics” converge. Here’s video of his presentation, during which he unveils [...]

Posted in Economics, entrepreneurism, Marketing, Uncategorized | Also tagged BALLE, Ben and Jerry's, Ben Cohen, Business Alliance for Local Living Economies, campaign finance reform, corporate takeover of politics, currency, defacing currency, dollar bills, get the money out of Washington, Grand Rapids, health care reform, ice cream, Mark's big ideas, Move to Amend, Obamacare, Occupy Wall Street, single-payer system | 13 Comments

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No Rubbers at Domino’s Farms: Tom Monaghan granted another temporary injunction against Obamacare contraception mandate by Judge Lawrence Zaktoff

Anti-abortion “personhood” legislation comes back to Michigan… with a new twist

The New Yorker enthusiastically endorses Obama, saying his reelection is “a matter of great urgency”

Ben Cohen on Occupy, independent business networks, and defacing currency to save our Democracy

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