My column in today’s American Spectator discusses a lawsuit filed by a decorated Iraq veteran who wants Obamacare declared unconstitutional: This 32-year-old artist, businessman, and holder of the Bronze Star is the plaintiff in Sissel v. U.S. Department of Health & Human Services, which Sissel sees as “a battle for my liberty — my freedom [...]
Zane Tankel, who owns 40 Applebee’s franchises, describes the steps he’ll have to take to survive Obamacare’s requirement that businesses with more than 50 workers offer a government-approved insurance plan or pay a penalty of $2,000 for each full-time worker over 30 workers. We’ve calculated it will cost some millions of dollars across our system. [...]
The other day I wrote a piece for the American Spectator about how AARP has left Barack Obama to fend for himself against Romney. Now even Sesame Street is abandoning “the One.” The Obama re-election crew has been running an ad (see below) using Big Bird as a prop, evidently without permission, and the Sesame [...]
He’s angry, and should be. I’ll let Caddell speak for himself: I think we’re at the most dangerous time in our political history in terms of the balance of power in the role that the media plays in whether or not we maintain a free democracy.
If you think that Obama’s dishonest ads against Mitt Romney are an aberration, something that he has been driven to by the tight presidential race, here’s a little reminder that this tawdry stuff is standard operating procedure for our soon-to-be-ex President.
This is the second and best half of Ryan’s speech. He discusses Obama’s failures at considerable length and asks the following question: “He assumed office almost four years ago … Isn’t it time he assumed responsibility?”
For once, Wolf Blitzer does his job. He was all over DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz about her claim that the ObamaCare mandate/tax isn’t actually a tax: The Solicitor General told the Supreme Court … It is, in fact, a tax. It will be administered by the IRS. It will be collected on April 15. [...]
The Supreme Court put the President and his congressional accomplices in a tight spot by ruling that ObamaCare’s mandate/penalty is a tax. Obama and his minions having been saying the opposite for two solid years. So, on Sunday, they found themselves defending their bait & switch against various talking heads charging that they have imposed [...]
By lunchtime, the Supreme Court will have ruled on four seperate issues relating to ObamaCare: (1) Anti-Injunction Act (AIA): The AIA forbids legal challenges to taxes before they go into effect. Thus, for AIA to apply, the mandate has to qualify as a tax. When the first challenges to PPACA were litigated, the government tried [...]
In this clip, former CBO director Douglas Holtz-Eakin (who now heads the American Action Forum) is interviewed by Politico about ObamaCare’s possible fate in the Supreme Court. He correctly points out that ObamaCare has “so many flaws” that it should be completely scuttled:
