Three Perilous Previews of Obamacare

Because of the nation’s and Supreme Court’s war over Obamacare this past week, I’m deferring until next week Part 2 of my article last week, “Not All Presidential Orders Are Created Equal,” to address this raging debate. Though I have concern that every American citizen has affordable health care, too, I have grave concerns about […]

 


They Don’t Know Us

Apparently, many liberals were disappointed in the administration’s performance before the Supreme Court. They felt that the government’s lawyer, Solicitor General Donald Verrilli, did not respond effectively to the challenges of some of the conservative justices. The editor of Commentary, John Podhoretz, offered an explanation on his magazine’s blog. “American liberals,” he wrote, “know their […]

 

Dems: Do as We Say, Not as We Vote

“Who killed the debt deal?” read The New York Times Magazine as it hyped its Sunday cover story as a “Washington whodunit.” Author Matt Bai explained that “some of Washington’s most connected Democrats and Republicans” didn’t know whose story to believe or what had been on the table after last summer’s “grand bargain” deficit reduction […]

 

Care or cure?

The debate isn’t new, but as the country awaits the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision on the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, suppose the conversation switched from a health care system devoted primarily to caring for the sick to one that gives top priority to finding cures for disease? […]

 


Americans Are Worrying About the Constitution Again

“I don’t worry about the Constitution,” said Rep. Phil Hare, Democrat of Illinois, at a town hall meeting where voters questioned his support of the legislation that became Obamacare. You can find the clip on youtube.com, where it has 462,084 hits. That was before the 2010 election, in which Hare, running for a third term […]

 

UN Climate Panel And “Extreme Weather”

CHURCHVILLE, VA–The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change admitted last week it had no evidence to support the various claims that the planet’s weather is becoming “more extreme.” The new IPCC report on weather extremes reads: “While there is evidence that increases in greenhouse gases have likely caused changes in some types of extremes, there is […]

 

UC’s Leftist Echo Chamber Drowns Out Diverse Voices

Political activism has drawn the University of California into an academic death spiral. Too many professors believe their job is to “advance social justice” rather than teach the subject they were hired to teach. Groupthink has replaced lively debate. Institutions that were designed to stir intellectual curiosity aren’t challenging young minds. They’re churning out “ignorance.” […]

 

If the Individual Mandate Is Struck Down by the Court … What Happens?

The core of Obamacare is obviously the requirement that everyone have health insurance. It is likely, given the nature of Justice Kennedy’s and Roberts’ questioning of the government attorneys defending the mandate, that it will be overturned by the Supreme Court. But we all must remember that there are other parts of Obamacare that are […]

 

20 Phenomenal Fringe Benefits Of Being A Liberal

You have to give liberalism a certain amount of credit. It doesn’t work, destroys lives, and pits people against each other, but that’s not to say that there are no advantages to being a liberal. Sure, you may end up sleeping in a tent in Zuccotti Park, reading Noam Chomsky’s laughably ignorant books, or having […]

 

7 Ways Wildly Successful People Screw Up Their Lives

My latest PJ Media column is called, 7 Ways Wildly Successful People Screw Up Their Lives. Here’s an excerpt from the column. Success is a journey not a destination. — Anonymous Many of us act as if success is a permanent state that we’re working to reach. We think, “One day, I’m finally going to […]

 

Eco-Scams Are as Easy as “A123”

While President Obama was busy lambasting Big Oil tax breaks on Thursday, yet another one of his environmental welfare recipients (the very kind he wants to redistribute oil subsidies to) was teetering on the edge of bankruptcy. Who needs to win the Mega Millions lottery? Start a pie-in-the-sky eco-boondoggle, and a half-billion-dollar jackpot ripe for […]

 

Conservative interpretations

Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg likes the Indian Healthcare Improvement Act and other ingredients of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka “ObamaCare.” Why, she asked toward the end of three days of hearings, shouldn’t the court keep the good stuff in ObamaCare and just dump the unconstitutional bits? The court, she explained, […]

 

Obama Doubling Down on His Leftist Radicalism

You can’t even casually surf the Internet on any given day without numerous reminders of just how radical President Obama is — and this is during an election year, when it should be in his political interest to mask his radicalism. Minding my own business, I happened on an article by Jacob Laksin on FrontPageMag.com, […]

 




Some interesting history about the inspiration behind Florida’s lawsuit against ObamaCare

This week, the United States Supreme Court heard oral arguments in the case of: Florida vs. United States Department of Health and Human Services: (for an excellent recap,: please see this write-up by the Texas Public Policy Foundation), the lawsuit filed by the State of Florida against the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, aka “ObamaCare.” Florida’s previous […]

 

The Left’s War On Women: A Day In The Life Of Michelle Malkin On Twitter (Explicit Language)

One of the latest liberal talking points is that conservatives are waging a “war on women” because they won’t agree that the Pope should be forced to buy everyone’s birth control. In other words, it’s completely imaginary. You want to see what a real “war on women” looks like? Start watching the way vile, misogynistic […]

 



Jesse: Trayvon Proves ‘Blacks Are Under Attack’

“Blacks are under attack,” said the Rev. Jesse Jackson, irresponsibly turning the Florida shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, Trayvon Martin, at the hands of Hispanic neighborhood watch volunteer George Zimmerman into a barometer of black-white “race-relations.” President Barack Obama, three years past his inauguration as American’s first black president, weighed in, too. As […]

 

Profiling

Right now, there isn’t enough known about the circumstances surrounding the fatal shooting of 17-year-old Trayvon Martin, a black, by George Zimmerman, a 28-year-old part-Hispanic, during his neighborhood watch tour in an Orlando, Fla., suburb. If evidence emerges that Zimmerman’s actions were not justified, he should be prosecuted and punished; however, there’s a larger issue […]

 

Obama unleashed

Politicians and presidents of both parties have occasionally suffered from open-mic syndrome, saying something when they thought the microphone was turned off they wished had not been made public. The latest to fall prey to that amplification of the mouth is President Obama. The president told Russian President Dmitry Medvedev during their Monday meeting in […]

 

Where’s Mirkarimi’s ‘Official Misconduct’?

I hate to sound like a lawyer, but: There’s a big hole in San Francisco Mayor Ed Lee’s suspension of Ross Mirkarimi as sheriff. In written charges that launched an investigation by the city’s Ethics Commission on “official misconduct,” Lee asserted that during a New Year’s Eve argument, Mirkarimi grabbed his wife, Eliana Lopez, “with […]

 

Obama’s Gaffe Hints at Hidden Agenda in Second Term

“I actually did vote for the $87 billion before I voted against it.” So said John Kerry, in Huntington, W.V., on Tuesday, March 16, 2004, two weeks after he had clinched the Democratic presidential nomination by carrying every state but Vermont in the Super Tuesday primaries. Kerry was responding to an ad run by George […]

 

The Best Quotations from Charles Murray’s ‘Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010’

Charles Murray’s Coming Apart: The State of White America, 1960-2010 has been one of the most innovative and talked about political books of 2012 with good reason. It’s a sobering book that talks about the huge chasm that has developed between the elite and the rest of America over the last 50 years. In the […]

 


Job Killers

Politicians say they “create jobs.” In fact, only the private sector generates the information needed to create real, productive jobs. Since this current post-recession job recovery is the slowest in 80 years, you’d think that even know-it-all politicians would want to sweep away the labyrinth of government regulations that hinders job creation. Successful job creators […]