Obamacare in One Sentence
Dr. Barbara Bellar, Republican hopeful for Illinois State Senate, District 18, takes on a difficult challenge: Summarizing Obamacare in one sentence. H/T Evil Blogger Lady
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Finding righteous currents in turbulent times
Archive for the tag “Obamacare”
Feds “Stimulate” Soda Taxes
Reason TV’s Nanny of the Month Award for August goes to Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the US Health and Human Services Department. Sebelius won because her department used Stimulus and Obamacare funds to back campaigns imposing local soda taxes and enacting tougher zoning rules for fast-food restaurants. Besides violating the job-creating intent of the Stimulus program, the department’s Office of Inspector General is now investigating whether these campaigns violated federal anti-lobbying provisions.
Reason TV also named two runners-up for the August Nanny of the Month Award:
- The State of Nevada, which can levy a fine of up to $2,000 if you teach someone how to apply makeup without the necessary certification.
- And the City of Phoenix, where a code enforcer threatened a woman for handing out free water, without a license, on a day when the temperatures hit 112 degrees.
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Ruling Could Erode Freedoms
The Supreme Court ruling on Obamacare has let the fox into the hen house, giving Congress broad new powers to regulate our freedoms. That’s the pessimistic assessment of Judge Andrew Napolitano, former host of Freedom Watch on the Fox Network and now a columnist for the Washington Times, among other publications.
Judge Napolitano sat down with Reason Magazine‘s Matt Welch to discuss Obamacare, the 2012 election and the future of liberty. He remains undecided on whether he’ll vote for Libertarian Presidential hopeful Gary Johnson or back Mitt Romney, saying he’s closer in his thinking to Johnson, but also deeply troubled about the prospect of President Obama appointing any additional Supreme Court justices.
Napolitano is author of a forthcoming book Theodore and Woodrow: How Two American Presidents Destroyed Your Constitutional Freedoms, due out late this year.
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Fluke Finder’s Fee
If abortion and birth control are private matters, why should the government fund them? Revealing Politics’ Caleb Bonham posed that question to voters attending a campaign rally that brought together President Obama and the vocally pro-choice Sandra Kay Fluke.
Not to be outdone, Rush Limbaugh weighed in later, saying Obama owed him. “I should be getting a finder’s fee,” the radio talk-show host averred. Earlier this spring, he and Fluke notoriously dueled over the contraception mandates in the new health care law.
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That Looks Bad!
Ladies and Gentlemen, Bill Whittle of Firewall is proud to present just a few of the 1001 REASONS TO VOTE FOR BARACK OBAMA. At least, he thinks he is. Hang on a sec — there might be a misprint in there somewhere…H/T Instapundit
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Ending Big SIS
No, we’re not talking about Janet Napolitano, Secretary of Homeland Security. The acronym SIS, in this case, stands for “Special Interest State,” as referenced in a new book by James V. DeLong called Ending Big SIS and Renewing the American Republic. Citing only one example, DeLong proclaims, “Obamacare is not, as one judge says, a national solution to a problem. It’s 2,000 pages of special-interest-written law.” DeLong, who has worked for several government agencies and Washington-based think tanks, currently is a contributing editor to Reason. Here, he’s interviewed on his book by Reason TV’s Nick Gillespie.
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Mind My Own Business
The essence of Progressive thought is “Yes it works in PRACTICE… but will it work in THEORY?” In his latest installment of The Firewall, Bill Whittle shows why Obamacare doesn’t even work in theory.
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