Battling a lawless federal government. Last July, I wrote that the states still had the power to kill Obamacare, despite the Supreme Court's gross dereliction of duty in Florida v. HHS. My point was that the insurance exchanges required by PPACA are the key to its success or failure, and that the law grants the states enormous power in the way they are ... MOREDavid Catron: The States Last Stand Against ObamaCare
Battling a lawless federal government. Last July, I wrote that the states still had the power to kill Obamacare, despite the Supreme Court's gross dereliction of duty in Florida v. HHS. My point was that the insurance exchanges required by PPACA are the key to its success or failure, and that the law grants the states enormous power in the way they are ... MOREKatie Kieffer: Counting Your Blessings, Backwards
Ten, nine, eight … what do you appreciate? When life seems crazy or hopeless, count your blessings backwards—that is, find something to be thankful for in the midst of darkness. It is reverse psychology for adults. Think of the most onerous regulation or politician in your life and find one reason you are thankful for this trial. For example, ... MOREOC Register: Welfare, In Its Many Forms, Mushrooms
Welfare incentives have been wildly successful. The United States spent $61,000-plus last year supporting welfare programs for each household in poverty, according to U.S. Census, Office of Management and Budget and Congressional Research Services data. If the money had been handed directly to those families, they would have arrived in the middle ... MORE
How's That ObamaCare Waiver Workin' Out For Ya?
by Michelle Malkin. Exactly two years ago this week, the Obama administration announced it had issued more than 100 waivers en masse to a select group of companies, unions and other health insurance providers seeking relief from the onerous federal health care law. The Obamacare waiver winner's club now totals 2,000. Where are they now? ... MOREPeter Morici: Of The Fiscal Cliff And Into The Abyss
A fast track to chaos. Efforts to avert the fiscal cliff offer great drama, but won't solve Washington's budget woes and could precipitate another recession or worse. The Budget Act of 2011 requires the president and Congress to agree on a nine-year $1.2 trillion deficit reduction program, or annual defense and nonentitlement ... MORE
SF Gate: Petraeus Scandal Reveals Threat To Privacy
Where did the checks on government go? All Americans who regard privacy as a fundamental right should be unnerved by the breadth and the detail of a search through personal correspondence in the scandal that brought down CIA Director David Petraeus. For a moment, put aside the question of whether Petraeus and Gen. John Allen, the top ... MOREFEMA: Welfare Masquerading As Disaster Relief
by Shikha Dalmia. Hurricane
Sandy hadn't even touched down when liberals started blowing
kisses to FEMA, or
Federal Emergency Management Agency, the federal disaster relief
agency. A New York Times editorial declared that the impending
storm proved that the country needs FEMA-style "Big Government"
solutions more than ever. Salon, New ... MOREArt Carden: Price Gouging In A Picture
What can we say about price gouging? In open defiance of what everyone learns in an introductory economics class about the laws of supply and demand, politicians in New York and New Jersey (and elsewhere, no doubt) are vigorously enforcing their laws against “price gouging” and implementing alternative rationing mechanisms like even-odd ... MORECitizens In All 50 States File Petitions To Secede From U.S.
by Jason Linkins. As you may have heard, residents in most of these United States have
used the "We The People" online petition tool -- previously best known
as the primary method that weed enthusiasts used to communicate with high-ranking members of the White House staff -- to file requests to secede from country in the wake of the ... MOREThomas Sowell: Is Demography Destiny?
If only they embraced small government principles. Some media pundits see in the growing proportion of non-white groups in the population a growing opposition to the Republican Party that will sooner or later make it virtually impossible for Republicans to win presidential elections or even to control either house of Congress. But is demography destiny? ... MOREDr. Gilbert Ross: The Deadly Crusade Against E-Cigarettes
Gov't to ban a sure-fire way to prevent death from smoking. Thursday was "The Great American Smokeout" -- an appropriate day to
take a moment to spare a thought for the 44 million Americans in
the grip of a deadly addiction. Over half of all smokers tried to
quit last year, and an estimated 443,000 died from
cigarette-related illness. ... MORE
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