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A RINO Won New Jersey; A Dinosaur Lost Virginia

What do Tuesday’s resounding re-election of Republican Chris Christie as governor of Democrat-friendly New Jersey and the excruciating defeat of tea party stalwart and gubernatorial wannabe Ken Cuccinelli in once reliably Republican Virginia say about Republican chances of retaking the White House in 2016? Christie won by 22 points after bad-mouthing the federal government shutdown, […]

Jay Sekulow & ACLJ Urge Supreme Court To Take ObamaCare Case

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), founded by Jay Sekulow: today asked the U.S. Supreme Court to take a case involving a challenge to the ObamaCare HHS Mandate — urging the high court to permit companies and corporations to bring religious liberty claims in challenging the Mandate. The ACLJ filed a Petition for Writ […]

Common Core: New Education Program Teaches Kids That ‘Commands’ of Government ‘Must Be Obeyed’

Liberals and misguided establishment Republicans (like Florida’s Jeb Bush) are pushing a new education program called Common Core, a policy that will do no less than spit out good little government automatons. But it isn’t just this new scheme of education. It’s been happening for years and all over. Commons Core just accelerates it. We […]

Obama Grasps For Some Sort Of Hotcoldwetdry Legacy

With everything else burning down around his ears, he’ll try a different route (The Hill) President Obama has a chance to craft a second-term legacy on climate change even as the rest of his agenda runs aground in Congress. Gun control legislation is dead; immigration reform is on life support; and reaching a fiscal deal […]

Say, How’s That ACA Enrollment Working In North Carolina?

In a word, “rocky” Rocky Start For North Carolina Health Care Exchanges North Carolina’s largest insurer is having its share of problems with the Obamacare website. Internal emails obtained by WNCN-TV show that Blue Cross Blue Shield show that only 1,000 people had filled out applications as of October 15th. In fact, only one person […]

Jay Leno: Obama ‘better off smoking crack than passing Obamacare’

It was not a good week for: Obamacare. Not only did singers: Brad Paisley and Carrie Underwood: take a shot: at: the health care law: during Wednesday’sCountry Music Association Awards: show, but comedian: Jay Leno took a turn: later that evening: on NBC’s “Tonight Show.” “And President Obama saw gravity today — not the film, his poll numbers. Not good,” Leno said. “Latest polls show […]

Liberal ‘Do-Good’ Policies Fall Short on Doing Good

At the very core of Liberalism is the idea that good deeds can only be achieved by legislating them. Strong arguments can be made that these “do-gooder” policies achieve the opposite and actually serve to hurt those they intend to help. We see this today with politicians in Washington who believe that a big government […]

Immigration and Automation Will Leave American Workers Desperately Seeking Jobs

U.S. Representative and former vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan (R-WI) avidly supports comprehensive immigration reform. Maybe Ryan isn’t the fiscal conservative he proclaims to be; analysts estimate that the Senate immigration bill, versions of which the House has under consideration, will cost $6 trillion within 50 years, increase unemployment and further depress already stagnant wages. […]

Janet Yellen’s Mission Impossible

Most market watchers expect that Janet Yellen will grapple with two major tasks once she takes the helm at the Federal Reserve in 2014: deciding on the appropriate timing and intensity of the Fed’s quantitative easing taper strategy, and unwinding the Fed’s enormous $4 trillion balance sheet (without creating huge losses in the value of […]

It’s a Marriage Gap, Not a Gender Gap

The Virginia election returns confirm what political insiders have known for many decades — that the real gap in our politics is not between men and women but between married men and married women on the one hand and single men and single women on the other. It doesn’t matter if you are divorced, separated, […]

Lessons for Both Parties in Virginia and New Jersey Elections

In an August Washington Examiner column, I argued that this year’s governor elections in New Jersey and Virginia would have little precedential significance, unlike some other off-year elections in those states. Boiled down, my argument was that in New Jersey you had a governor who could not lose and in Virginia you had two governor […]

How Many Health Plans are ‘Substandard’? Nearly All of Them.

Because of a regulation designed to make nearly every plan rapidly lose grandfather status, millions of Americans have received letters informing them their health plans have been canceled. Many of them are unable to even get through the first steps of Healthcare.gov to see what their options there are, and others who are able to […]

Why Christie’s Persona Will Play Well in the Rest of America

Forget the acceptance speech. If you want an example of New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie’s imposing political IQ, watch the nine-minute impromptu speech he delivered in Sea Bright a few days before the election. The impeccable populist instincts that make Christie such a formidable politician were all in play — authenticity, empathy, combativeness. It’s the […]

The government thinks you’re stupid, or at least ignorant.

This isn’t just an indictment of the current government or an indictment of government itself. It’s simply a statement of fact. At its core, the government exists to do certain things that people aren’t equipped to do on their own. The list of those things has gotten longer and longer over the years. In 1776, […]

Sheldon & Dr. Miriam Adelson to Join Governor Huckabee at Pro-Israel Dinner

The Zionist Organization of America is proud to announce that former Presidential candidates Gov. Mike Huckabee and: U.S.: Congressmember Michele Bachmann, as well as global philanthropists/humanitarians Sheldon Adelson and Dr. Miriam Adelson, will headline the ZOA Brandeis Dinner on Sunday, November 24, 2013, in: New York City. Mr. Sheldon Adelson and Dr. Miriam Adelson will present the Adelson […]

Tasered for Attempting to Rescue Child From Fire

If the penalty for rolling a stop sign or forgetting your turn indicator is extreme anal intrusion, the penalty for attempting to rescue a 3-year-old from a fire is a few blasts from a stun gun: The family of a 3-year-old killed in a northern Missouri house fire is outraged after police used a stun […]

De Blasio: Big Boon to Abortion Industry

The election of a communist as Mayor of New York City isn’t just bad news for capitalist robber barons (a.k.a. nongovernmental employers). Under militant leftist Bill de Blasio, unborn children will make out even worse: New York City has been called “the abortion capital of the world.” The city has some of the laxest restrictions […]

Obama’s Betrayal of Israel and Arming of Iran

By: Terresa Monroe-Hamilton NoisyRoom.net Obama’s betrayal of Israel is stunning and completely predictable. It’s right on schedule along with the four horsemen of the Apocalypse. I don’t know how anyone could be surprised by this. Whispers are on the wind that a nuclear deal is within reach between the US and Iran, but the US […]

Bummer: Uninsured Not Checking Out Healthcare.fail

At least not at the moment (Politico) Less than a quarter of uninsured Americans who plan to get health insurance through the Affordable Care Act exchanges have been to an exchange website, a new poll shows. Asked if they’ve been to any government health insurance website since they were launched on Oct. 1, only 22 […]

White House To Issue “Sweeping” Mental Health Rules

Many were wondering on Thursday why HHS chief-incompetent Kathleen Sebelius was heading to Atlanta. Some wondered whether she would announce a delay for Obamacare. Nope (The Hill) The Obama administration will issue long awaited regulations Friday that require insurers to treat mental illness and addiction the same as physical illnesses, current and former lawmakers said. […]

John Kerry Throws Freedom-Seeking Women Under the Bus

It’s confirmed: The “F” in John. F. Kerry stands for “Feckless.” Women around the world no longer need to wonder whether America’s secretary of state will stand boldly with them in defense of their basic rights. He won’t. On Monday, Kerry was in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Anyone with a phone or an Internet connection inside […]

Obama health lie freaks Dems

Many of the president’s supporters are in barely concealed panic over the fact that he didn’t tell the truth when he was selling the Affordable Care Act. In an oft-repeated vow, he told the country that “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period. No one […]

Obama’s Obamacare Lies Were Chronicled From the Beginning

Don’t you believe that President Obama’s lies that people could keep their health insurance plans and doctors were his only lies about Obamacare or that these and the other lies were not demonstrably false when he uttered them. In my book “Crimes Against Liberty,” I chronicled Obama’s multitudinous lies about Obamacare and many other subjects, […]