Walter McLaughlin on Medicaid cost recovery. When a bill the size and scope of Obamacare is dropped onto the desk of the average member of Congress, it’s safe to assume that they haven’t read it cover-to-cover before casting their vote. Had they done so with the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010, however, they ... MORE
Showing posts with label coercion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coercion. Show all posts
Peggy Noonan: The Grinch Who Stole Health Care
You know what I am talking about. This is the year that the Democrats "have blown up the American health-care system." The quote is from Peggy Noonan's qualified approval of the Ryan-Murray copout. You see, back in the golden age of George W. Bush, Democrats were mad as hell. How could the American people be so stupid, ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Masking Totalitarianism
Slavery by any other name still stinks. One of the oldest notions in the history of mankind is that some people are to give orders and others are to obey. The powerful elite believe that they have wisdom superior to the masses and that they've been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Their agenda calls for an attack ... MORE
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coercion,
force,
freedom,
government,
individual liberty,
liberty,
rights,
totalitarian,
tyranny
Cops Force Texas Drivers Off The Road To Take Survey
Probable cause not required to get red lights. Texas drivers are being pulled over and offered cash in return for DNA blood samples. Police say the national survey is '100 per cent voluntary' but drivers claim they felt trapped and were 'forced off the road' to give samples. Officers in the $8million National Highway Traffic Safety Administration ... MORE
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authority,
coercion,
force,
government,
police,
police state,
probable cause,
warrantless search
John W. Whitehead: Coming To A Police Dept Near You
Drones, tanks and grenade launchers. Why does a police department which hasn’t had an officer killed in the
line of duty in over 125 years in a town of less than 20,000 people need
tactical military vests like those used by soldiers in Afghanistan?
For that matter, why does a police department in a city of 35,000
people need a military- ... MORE
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coercion,
force,
government,
law enforcement,
military,
police,
police state,
tactics,
weapons
Mark Steyn: The Drift Toward Despotism
Our rulers reflexively see the citizenry as a threat. At a time when over 4 million people have had their health insurance canceled, it’s good to know that some Americans can still access prompt medical treatment, even if they don’t want it. David Eckert was pulled over by police in Deming, N.M., for failing to come to a complete ... MORE
Fox News: 70 Federall Agencies Have Armed Divisions
Armed EPA raid sheds light on situation. The recent uproar over armed EPA agents descending on a tiny Alaska
mining town is shedding light on the fact that 40 federal agencies –
including nearly a dozen typically not associated with law enforcement
-- have armed divisions. The agencies employ about 120,000 full-time officers ... MORE
EPA Deploys SWAT To Check For Clean Water Violation
by Sean Doogan. When agents with the Alaska Environmental Crimes Task Force surged out of the wilderness around the remote community of Chicken wearing body armor and jackets emblazoned with POLICE in big, bold letters, local placer miners didn’t quite know what to think. Did it really take eight armed men and a squad-size ... MORE
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coercion,
energy,
environment,
EPA,
force,
government,
intimidation,
policy,
regulation,
SWAT
ObamaCare Provision: "Forced" Home Inspections
by Joshua Cook. “Clearly, any family may be visited by federally paid agents for almost any reason.” According to an Obamacare provision millions of Americans will be targeted. The Health and Human Services’ website states that your family will be targeted if you fall under the “high-risk” categories below: Families where mom is not yet 21. ... MORE
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bureaucracy,
coercion,
force,
government,
health care,
insurance,
ObamaCare,
property rights
Agent Admits Tea Party Groups Still In IRS Crosshairs
by Paul Bedard. In a remarkable admission that is likely to rock the Internal Revenue Service again, testimony released Thursday by House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Dave Camp reveals that an agent involved in reviewing tax exempt applications from conservative groups told a committee investigator that the agency is still targeting ... MORE
From A Nation Of Laws To A Nation Of Men
by John Whitehead. With each passing day, America is inching further down the slippery slope toward a police state. While police clashes with protesters, small farmers and other so-called “lawbreakers” vividly illustrate the limits placed on our freedoms, the boundaries of a police state extend far beyond the actions of law enforcement. ... MORE
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coercion,
Constitution,
force,
freedom,
government,
liberty,
police state,
privacy,
surveillance
Earl Glynn: How ObamaCare Empowers The IRS
Massive expansion of the controversial tax agency required. While promoting Obamacare, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi encouraged
Americans to think of it as a kind of Christmas
present. “We
have to pass the (health care) bill so that you can find out what
is in it,” she told the National Association of Counties
in March 2010, days before ... MORE
Ralph R. Reiland: A Government Against Liberty
Public servants or public masters? Let’s say you’re like most people and believe the federal government has become too large, too wasteful, too crooked and too intrusive. Now imagine the morning mail arrives from the money-bleeding U.S. Postal Service ($16 billion in the hole last year) and there’s a letter from the Internal Revenue ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Americans Deserve The IRS
Politicians must pay for their spending. Individually, Americans do not deserve to be subservient to such a fear-mongering, intimidating and powerful agency as the Internal Revenue Service; but collectively, we do. Let's look at it. Since the 1791 ratification of our Constitution, until well into the 1920s, federal spending as a percentage of ... MORE
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