My latest article for the American Spectator is about an obscure section of ObamaCare that undermines a core principle of our justice system—-that a person cannot be convicted of a felony unless it has been proven that he acted with “criminal intent.”
Section 6402 revises existing law so that the government can ignore the criminal intent principle in violations of the […]
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OBAMACARE & CRIMINAL INTENT
CLINTON APPOINTEE, JUDGE GEORGE STEEH, RULES OBAMACARE CONSTITUTIONAL
This isn’t the crucial case that will eventually wind up in the Supreme Court and decide the fate of the mandate, but it does demonstrate why it’s a bad idea to let Democrats appoint federal judges:
U.S. District Court Judge George Steeh of the Eastern District of Michigan, a Bill Clinton appointee, argued that the federal government does […]
OBAMACARE THE HOSPITAL KILLER
A lot of people think hospitals have magical powers, that they are somehow immune to the effects of rising costs and decreasing payments. These people are in for a rude awakening.
ObamaCare will put upward pressure on expenses by herding huge numbers of people through the ER, imposing costly IT mandates and creating a regulatory burden that is very […]
VIDEO: DUMBEST PRO-OCARE AD EVAH!
Watching this ad from something called “Campus Progress,” I found myself hoping it was a parody. These alleged students have managed to produce an ad featuring flesh that isn’t sexy, puns that aren’t funny, and a moral appeal that isn’t moral or appealing:
Until a few weeks ago, we’d get kicked off our parents’ health insurance […]
ELDERLY & DISABLED TO PAY FOR OBAMACARE
For an English translation of ObamaCare, I recommend NCPA’s pamphlet: What Does Health Reform Mean for You? Among other things, it correctly points out that the costs of ”reform” will be disproportionately borne by Medicare patients (i.e. the elderly & disabled):
More than half the cost of health reform will be paid for by $523 billion in reduced Medicare spending over […]
YES, MURKOWSKI DID OPPOSE OCARE REPEAL
Sore loser Lisa Murkowski and the Tea Party Express are engaged in an escalating ad war, and the former has actually been dumb enough to threaten broadcasters who might have the temerity to exercise their First Amendment rights:
U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s campaign is warning Alaska broadcasters not to air ads by a national tea party group […]
GOP GUBERNATORIAL CANDIDATE SENDS DEM OPPONENT TO SCHOOL ON JOB CREATION
If you want to know why unemployment has doubled since the Dems returned to power in the states as well as in Washington, this video pretty much tells the tale. Republican candidate for the Connecticut governorship, Linda McMahon, asks her Democrat opponent, “How do you create a job?” His answer is pathetic. After watching him […]
HEH … C-SPAN USED BECK-PALIN CROWD PIC FOR TODAY’S ASTROTURFED ONWT EVENT
The people who astroturfed the ONWT ”march” claim their crowd was a large as the recent Beck-Palin rally. Not even AP bought that whopper:
Organizers claimed they had as many participants as Beck’s rally. But Saturday’s crowds were less dense and didn’t reach as far to the edges as they did during Beck’s rally.
But my favorite attempt to create the illusion […]
OBAMACARE DRIVES ANOTHER INSURER OUT OF THE HEALTH COVERAGE BUSINESS
Another day, another insurance company bails. The Dems, and the people who vote for them, believe that the government can dictate benefits, prices, and business practices to insurance companies with no effect on behavior.
As anyone literate in basic economics could have predicted, these mandates increase the cost of doing business so much that many carriers will simply leave the health […]