June 20, 2013
Today's Question
In a single year, OTMs at the southern U.S. border increased by 67 percent. What is an OTM? Answer.
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Friday, June 29, 2012 at 9:18AM 
What do you do when your president and leaders in the U.S. Senate and House lie to you?
How many times were we told ObamaCare is NOT a tax bill?
Then a funny thing happened on the way to a faulty Supreme Court ruling. ObamaCare defenders called it a tax bill.
Can you nullify a federal law based on fraud?
Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 11:04AM In the video, Obama denies the mandate carries a tax increase. Then when he realized the mandate wasn't constitutional within the Commerce Clause, Obama's attorneys at the Dept. of Justice called it a tax increase. Obviously, the president seriously misinformed Americans about his signature bill.
The U.S. Supreme Court aided the administration of President Barack Obama in a historic way. SCOTUS upheld the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act mandate, but not within the powers of the Commerce Clause.
For Obama, this is a pyrrhic victory because the fundamentals of the November election just changed.
Thursday, June 28, 2012 at 10:06AM I'm blogging this live.
Fox News reported the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled the individual mandate unconstitutional as related to the Commerce Clause as The US Report predicted from the moment we (actually) read the healthcare bill, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly called ObamaCare.
You can't force people to engage in commerce at the federal level.
However, the SCOTUS blog is saying the mandate survives as a tax. The Dept. of Justice claimed at various times the mandate was a penalty or a tax, depending on their politics.
These are early comments; this is undeniably going to be a complex ruling.
President Barack Obama's initial take was that this was not a tax. DOJ adopted the tax argument for political purposes because as it now stands, Congress can tax your teeth if they want to.
The decision is one more reason, in my opinion, to vote out any politician who voted for a bill that is based on cost shifting.
It's a sad day in America that SCOTUS has been neutered by a Democrat administration bent on socializing U.S. healthcare.
It's good that SCOTUS had the good sense to limit the insane expansions of the Commerce Clause.
It's bad that Americans have lost a key pillar of freedom. Thank the nearest Democrat for the increasing involvement of the federal government in your lifestyle choices and your relationship with your doctors. Your children can thank the nearest Democrat when this new entitlement program bankrupts our nation.
2012 Election, Democrats, US Constitution, US Healthcare tagged Obamacare, PPACA, PPACA Supreme Court Friday, March 16, 2012 at 9:05AM Attorney General Eric Holder isn’t exactly viewed as a champion of individual rights for all. His latest attempt to defend the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act—commonly called ObamaCare because it is, after all, the president’s signature cause—is to turn to the ‘Necessary and Proper’ clause in the U.S. Constitution.
