On Friday, April 15, the justices of the Supreme Court will discuss in conference whether to grant Virginia’s petition for certiorari. If four of the nine justices vote in favor, Commonwealth of Virginia v. Sebelius will leap over the laborious and protracted appellate process and go straight to the high court.
Many court watchers claim to know what the justices […]
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A PORTENT FOR FRIDAY’S SUPREME COURT DECISION ON OBAMACARE LAWSUIT?
HSIEH: HOMER SIMPSON & SOCIAL SECURITY
Paul Hsieh, in his latest column for Pajamas Media, provides the perfect metaphor for that Social Security Trust Fund we keep hearing about from people inside the Beltway:
In a classic episode of The Simpsons, a hungry Homer Simpson runs out of donuts and breaks into his emergency stash. But when he opens the box, it’s […]
BUDGET DEAL REQUIRES SENATE TO HOLD VOTE ON OBAMACARE DEFUNDING & REPEAL
Some conservatives have been whining about the budget deal just negotiated by John Boehner. But, as Thomas Lifson points out, Boehner actually got the better of the President and his accomplices:
There is more good in the budget deal than is revealed in the budget cut number agreed on last night.
First, the cuts were actually deeper […]
THE PURPLE HEALTH REFORM PLAN
The reds and the blues have been engaged in a running gun battle over health reform for a long time. But, as David Hogberg reports at IBD, one group of economists believes it is possible to achieve progressive aims by market-based means:
Boston University economist Laurence Kotlikoff … seeks to achieve the liberal goal of universal care via a market-oriented […]
WOLF: GOVT CONTROL VS. THE FREE MARKET
Our economy has once again devolved into Carter-style stagflation. Why? Because the President and his congressional accomplices imposed an economic model on the country that has a perfect record of failure.
Milton Wolf does a good job, in his most recent Washington Times column, of explaining why central economic planning and government ownership of business never produces the prosperity its adherents promise:
I […]
HHS BUREAUCRATS CONVERT 6 PAGES OF “REFORM” INTO 429 PAGES OF REGULATIONS
Remember all those claims, made by countless ObamaCare supporters, that “reform” would make the “chaotic” U.S. health care system more efficient? Well, here’s what the word efficient means to the bureaucrats of the Health & Human Services department:
Section 3022 of the law, which is about the Medicare shared savings program, take up just six pages in the […]
KING BARACK’S WAIVERS
My latest column for the American Spectator explores the similarities between the ObamaCare waivers and the royal dispensations that were declared illegal in England more than two centuries ago:
Obama does not, of course, call his targeted exemptions from the rigors of Obamacare “dispensations.” He and his courtiers at the Department of Health & Human Services […]
CBS & WAPO GETTING OBAMACARE KICKBACKS
For anyone who might still be wondering why the MSM has been so reluctant to tell the ugly truth about ObamaCare, I offer this modest theory—they are being paid off:
Two mainstream news organizations are receiving hundreds of thousands of taxpayer dollars from Obamacare’s Early Retiree Reinsurance Program … The Washington Post Company raked in $573,217 […]
REPUBLICAN BUDGET DEFUNDS OBAMACARE
The GOP’s budget proposal was presented today by Rep. Paul Ryan, the Chairman of the House Budget Committee, and it purports to contain not a penny for ObamaCare:
The Republican proposal says one of its aims is ‘making sure that not a penny goes toward implementing the new [health care] law enacted last year.
This includes repealing […]
VIDEO: JON STEWART BUSTS OBAMA’S CHOPS FOR LACK OF TRANSPARENCY
The rest of us knew that Obama’s transparency line was pure BS when he broke his promise to have the health care negotiations on C-SPAN. Jon Stewart is, however, a little slow. So he just figured out that it was all a load of crap. But hey, better late than never. In this clip, Stewart even points […]