In it’s “Notable & Quotable” feature, yesterday’s Wall Street Journal carried this quote from Jeffrey H. Anderson writing in the May 7 Weekly Standard: “The most politically brazen feature of Obamacare has always been its looting of Medicare. About half of Obamacare’s costs are to be covered with money taken from an already nearly bankrupt [...]
A Speech Delivered to Portland Rotary — May 1, 2012 – Can Congress mandate that you and I purchase health insurance on penalty of payment of a fine if we do not? As a matter of raw political power? Absolutely. We saw it happen in 2010, complete with Cornhusker kickbacks and Louisiana purchases. But [...]
Back when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was under consideration in Congress, there was talk about “death panels” the law would create to decide on what procedures would be authorized and what would not. The use of the term “death panels” was roundly condemned as a scare tactic distortion of the proposed law. [...]
So now let’s insult all the stay at home moms. Writing in Sunday’s New York Times, Frank Bruni observes that “by the standards of Hilary Rosen, whose name and swipe at Ann Romney just possibly crossed your radar last week, my mother also never worked a day in her life, at least not after she [...]
Before the widely publicized Supreme Court arguments over the constitutionality of Obamacare, the Court’s approval rating had fallen to an all time low of 28% — better than Congress, but not very good. After the arguments in Obamacare, and after President Obama’s direct attack on the Court as activist, the Court’s approval rating rose 13 [...]
PRESIDENT OBAMA SETS THE STAGE FOR A POLITICAL ASSAULT ON THE SUPREME COURT – Originally published on The Daily Caller 04/03/12 – President Obama says that the Supreme Court would be taking an “unprecedented, extraordinary step” by overturning the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), since the act was passed by “a strong majority [...]
Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, University of Chicago professor John Cochrane explains that the reason health insurance and health care cost so much is because endless state and federal regulations over several decades made destroyed any semblance of a competitive market. Of course this suggests that if Obamacare is held to be unconstitutional by [...]
Peggy Noonan, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, thinks so. Noonan argues that the President’s handling of the contraceptive regulation and Trayvon Martin controversies, his request to the Russian President to give him some space until after the election, and his blindness to the constitutional issues of Obamacare have all led many people to not [...]
Writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, Kimberly Strassel counters the Democratic suggestion that Republicans will suffer from a Supreme Court invalidation of Obamacare. The key, says Strassel, is for Republicans to keep the issue alive through the election.
This report from The Wall Street Journal suggests that the five conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court are skeptical of the government’s claim that the individual mandate of Obamacare fits within prior commerce clause precedent. Justice Kennedy says there is a “heavy burden on the government.” Read the story here.
INDIVIDUAL MANDATE CASE IS AN OPPORTUNITY TO BEGIN RESTORING FRAMERS’ VISION: Originally published in The Daily Caller — 3-26-12 – Today the United States Supreme Court began three days of hearings on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare). Challengers claim the law’s mandate that individuals purchase insurance or pay a [...]
Writing in today’s Oregonian, Charles Krauthammer explains that the Affordable Care and Patient Protecti0n Act is neither affordable nor does in protect patients. Read the full commentary here.
After decades of decline, the nuclear power industry was beginning to show signs of life in the United States and elsewhere. Then came the Japan earthquake and tsunami. Nations like Germany, long dependent on nuclear power, announced plans to phase our all nuclear plants. The momentum for new nuclear power plants in the United States [...]
Oregon farmer Mark Dickman writes in yesterday’s Oregonian on the Governor’s lack of attention to job creation. Once the Governor thought he would get what he wanted, says Dickman, he threw his Republican and business collaborators under the bus. Putting in it most favorable light, the best one can say is the Governor and his [...]
Is there a war on Wyden, or is he just being ignored? Kimberly Strassel reports in today’s Wall Street Journal that Wyden has introduced roughly 150 bipartisan bills during his 16 years in the Senate. She does not report how many have been enacted, but we can rest assured it’s a very small number. Is [...]
Karl Rove, writing in today’s Wall Street Journal, describes how the Obama administration has begun the master the art of taxing people without the need of a tax authorized by Congress. Mandated activities, whether providing contraceptives “for free” or guaranteeing insurance coverage for high and low risk people at the same price, effectively tax those [...]
The New York Times editorial board is upset with the influence the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC) is having on state legislatures. [see editorial from today's newspaper here] ALEC was founded by “right-wing activist” Paul Weyrich, and its funders include “Exxon Mobil, the Olin and Scaife families and foundations tied to Koch Industries.” Among some [...]
President Obama is often described as a Chicago educated politician. That implies something about style and about the use of power. But according to Chicago Tribune columnist John Kass, there is a lesson Obama should have learned in Chicago, but did not. That lesson is that Catholics can help you politically, but if you start [...]
