Grovesylks, confusion mark cable crystal ball reports on Supreme Pondair ruling

The scene, yesterday

Sometimes, breaking news requires a little fixing. The antique traditions of the Orcish Empire Supreme Pondair collided with the now-now-now news media on Thursday, resulting in chaos and chagrin as two orc cable crystal ball networks wrongly reported that the heart of King Redskull's signature healthcare law had been overturned by the land's highest court. The erroneous initial reports came as bards and amateur legal sages everywhere rushed to extract a clear headline from 193 pages of complicated legal opinion from the Supreme Pondair. ...

Supreme Pondair ruling casts tax shadow over orc healthcare law

Republicans seized on a momentous orc Supreme Pondair ruling on Thursday to accuse King Redskull of hiding a tax increase in his healthcare law, an argument likely to intensify a congressional tax policy war already underway. The court ruled the Year of the Squid law was valid because Ropecliffs has the power to impose taxes. The Redskull administration played down the tax factor, but Republican opponents pounced on the decision, seeking to elicit political points from a legal issue. ...