My latest column for the American Spectator looks at the comical attempts by the MSM to explain away Judge Vinson’s recent ObamaCare ruling. They have reached such a state of desperation that they are peddling the Militia Act of 1792 as a precedent for the individual mandate:
The imminent scholars at the Daily Kos, Salon, the […]
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THE VINSON RULING & THE MUSKET MANDATE
REAGAN ON GOVERNMENT-RUN HEALTH CARE
Since yesterday was Ronald Reagan’s 100th birthday, it seemed appropriate to re-post this 1960s audio of the Gipper warning against Medicare mission creep. Here’s the money quote:
One of the traditional methods of imposing statism, or socialism, on a people has been by way of medicine. It’s very easy to disguise a medical program as a […]
VIDEO: PEGGY NOONAN BITCH-SLAPS ANDREA MITCHELL OVER REAGAN WHOPPER
You may have noticed that, during the run-up to Reagan’s 100th birthday, the very media types who trashed him for decades are now trying to remake him into a RINO. The last straw for Noonan came when Andrea Mitchell made the following idiotic assertion:
People are trying … Republicans in particular, obviously trying to appropriate Ronald Reagan for their […]
TITANICARE
Most people, even those given to the sin of pride, have enough sense to heed blindingly obvious signs that they are about to make a colossal blunder. Some, however, are so imbued with hubris that they simply can’t imagine being wrong.
The latter failing, as Milton Wolf points out in the Washington Times, is a quality shared by our President […]
OUR FDA-CREATED DRUG SHORTAGE
One of the arguments frequently made by “reform” advocates in the years running up to the passage of ObamaCare was that the free market was too chaotic to properly allocate health care resources. Indeed, our new CMS administrator warned us not to put our faith in market forces.
These geniuses wanted the government to impose order on the system. Wanna see what happens when […]
VIDEO: EXPLAINING WHY OBAMACARE WAS RULED UNCONSTITUTIONAL TO A PROGRESSIVE
If you’ve ever discussed health care reform with a progressive, this conversation will be all too familiar. Facts, law, representative democracy, limits on federal power: none of this stuff rings a bell with these people.
DEMOCRAT ATTORNEYS GENERAL VOW TO IGNORE JUDGE VINSON’S OBAMACARE RULING
If you expected the Democrats to pay any more attention to the courts than they have to the voters, you’re in for a disappointment. Eight state AGs, all Democrats of course, have decided to implement ObamaCare regardless of the recent invalidation of the law by U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson:
Eight Democratic attorneys general have issued a […]
IS EZRA KLEIN THE JAYSON BLAIR OF THE WASHINGTON POST?
Washington Post blogger Ezra Klein provides an entertaining attempt to shrug off Judge Roger Vinson’s recent ruling that ObamaCare is unconstitutional. Klein claims that “a conservative legal scholar and friend,â€? whom he neglects to name, wrote him to make the following assertion:
There remains a very good chance that this will not end up before the […]
SURVEY: MOST DOCTORS SAY OBAMACARE WILL RAISE COSTS AND REDUCE QUALITY
The firm contacted a lot of docs for this survey, and most are not very sanguine about the future of our medical delivery system in the brave new world of ObamaCare.
The 2011 National Physicians Survey, conducted by Thomson Reuters/HCPlexus and polling almost 3,000 American doctors, shows that while Obamacare would raise spending, premiums, overall U.S. health […]
VIDEO: LEGAL SCHOLAR SAYS SEVERABILITY CLAUSE DELIBERATELY LEFT OUT OF OCARE
The reason Judge Roger Vinson was able to strike down the entire ”reform” law involved its lack of a severability clause. Jonathan Turley apparently agrees with ObamaCare conspiracy buffs who think that the clause was deliberately left out to protect the law:
There’s some suspicion that it might be a sort of game of chicken, that they wanted […]