More on Obamacare

Thomas Sowell wrote: The principle that the legal authority to regulate X implies the authority to regulate anything that can affect X is a huge and dangerous leap of logic in a world where all sorts of things have some effect on all sorts of other things. As an example, take a law that liberals, [...]

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Kennedy: The Sultan of Swing

Mark Steyn wrote: And yet, and yet . . . If you incline to the view that Obamacare is a transformative act, isn’t there something slightly pitiful about the fact that the liberties of over 300 million people hinge on the somewhat whimsical leanings of just one man? I mean, Kennedy seems a cheery enough [...]

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Obama Hikes Debt More Than Bush Did in 8 Years

Jim Meyers wrote: The national debt in the United States has now increased more during President Barack Obama’s three years and two months in office than it did during all eight years of George W. Bush’s presidency. The debt rose $4.89 trillion during Bush’s two terms in the White House, and stood at $10.62 trillion [...]

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The Cost of Obamacare Noncompliance

From Newsmax.com (emphasis mine): Estimates vary widely of how many uninsured people will get insurance once it’s required in January 2014. About 4 million people would pay a penalty to the Internal Revenue Service for being uninsured in 2016, the Congressional Budget Office estimates. By 2016, the fine reaches $695 per uninsured adult or 2.5 [...]

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California and Greece

Victor Davis Hanson wrote: Where, then, lies the solution to the students’ protests? Without a rainy-day reserve fund or a growing economy, there are only a limited number of ways to solve California’s chronic budget problems. The state can keep cutting its once-generous entitlements and liberal social services, as well as public employees’ salaries, to [...]

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U.S. Catholic Bishops Stand Their Ground

From a statement of the Administrative Committee of the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops: Second, we wish to clarify what this debate is—and is not—about. This is not about access to contraception, which is ubiquitous and inexpensive, even when it is not provided by the Church’s hand and with the Church’s funds. This is [...]

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Mitch Daniels: Debt Will Lead to National Ruin

Christopher Goins wrote: Indiana Republican Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday that the size of the U.S. national debt and the rate at which the debt is accumulating will lead the United States to “ruin” — and no other outcome is mathematically possible. “Whether one believes in a large, very active government or something more limited, [...]

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Running Out of Gas

Melanie Hunter wrote (emphasis mine): Former Shell Oil President John Hofmeister predicted that the U.S. won’t have enough oil to fill gas tanks whatever the price and that high gas prices could lead to another recession, because people won’t be able to buy things. Former Shell Oil President: We Won’t Have Enough to Fill Gas [...]

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Christians Have No Right to Wear Cross

Patrick Goodenough wrote: Conservative-led government plans to argue in a European Court of Human Rights case that employers are entitled to ban the visible wearing of crosses at work because displaying the symbol is not a recognized “requirement” of the Christian faith. . . . News of the government’s intervention in the case comes amid [...]

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IRS Intimidation Campaign Against Tea Party Groups

Susan Jones wrote: A conservative civil liberties group accuses the Internal Revenue Service of attempting to “intimidate and silence” a number of tea party groups that have applied for tax-exempt status. The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ) says IRS requests for information about the groups included “probing questions” that violate the free speech [...]

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Presidential Wisdom

The 30th President of the United States said: It is often asserted that the world has made a great deal of progress since 1776, that we have had new thoughts and new experiences which have given us a great advance over the people of that day, and that we may therefore very well discard their [...]

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It’s a Pity Somebody Has To Win

Andrew C. McCarthy wrote: Destroying the Saddam Hussein regime’s capacity to project power and facilitate terror took just a few weeks, but based on the second Bush inaugural’s mellifluous nonsense that “the survival of liberty in our land increasingly depends on the success of liberty in other lands,” we stuck around another eight years to [...]

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Jim DeMint — Now or Never

From Newsmax.com: “It really started in the 20th century,” said DeMint. “The government wasn’t large and didn’t have any money because the only money it had came from excise taxes and sales taxes. “Until they passed the income tax in the early 20th century, the government really couldn’t grow,” DeMint said. “That opened the floodgates. [...]

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Franklin Graham: ‘I Would Break the Law’

Franklin Graham: ‘I Would Break the Law’ But Graham, the president and chairman of the Samaritan’s Purse global relief ministry that helps millions in impoverished, war-torn hotspots around the globe, indicated that he would risk going to jail rather than comply with any such mandate from the federal government. “Even though we’re privately funded, I [...]

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The Obamacare Trifecta

Charles Krauthammer wrote: On what authority? Where does it say that the president can unilaterally order a private company to provide an allegedly free-standing service at no cost to certain select beneficiaries? This is government by presidential fiat. In Venezuela, that’s done all the time. Perhaps we should call Obama’s “accommodation” Presidential Decree No. 1. [...]

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Catholic, Lutheran, Baptist and Jewish Leaders Swear Disobedience to HHS Contraception Mandate

From CNSNews.com: Would you go to jail–or even close down your hospitals and schools–rather than violate your religious faith, a Republican lawmaker asked religious leaders at a House hearing on Thursday. The answer, given under oath, was unanimous: They will disobey. “We’re not going to violate our consciences,” William E. Lori, the Roman Catholic Bishop [...]

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Federal Court Says 60 Churches Can Keep Meeting in NYC Public Schools

More on this story; Pete Winn wrote: A federal judge in Manhattan issued a temporary restraining order Thursday allowing the Bronx Household of Faith and 59 other New York City churches to continue meeting for weekend worship services in New York City public schools. The city had evicted the churches on Feb. 12. “This court [...]

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Meese: Obama Administration ‘As Close to a Monarchy As Since Days Of George III’

Patrick Burke wrote: Former Attorney General Ed Meese says the Obama administration’s “disdain for Congress” and its efforts to consolidate power within the executive branch through the use of “czars” makes it “as close to a monarchy as since the days of George III.” “In what was purported to be the most transparent and the [...]

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Social Security Ran $45 Billion Deficit in 2011

Matt Cover wrote: Social Security ran a deficit of approximately $45 billion in 2011, according to official government figures and CNSNews.com calculations. That figure is slightly lower than the $49 billion deficit the government reported in 2010. Social Security had been projected to run a $46 billion deficit in 2011, according to the 2011 report [...]

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The Gov’t Spends SS Anyway it Wants

From Rasmussen Reports (emphasis mine): Fifty-nine percent (59%) of voters have a favorable opinion of Social Security. However, 53% lack confidence that they will receive all promised benefits. Eighty-five percent (85%) still believe there is a trust fund that requires all Social Security funding to pay for Social Security benefits. Just seven percent (7%) recognize [...]

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