Thursday’s 5-4 Supreme Court ruling basically guarantees that US president Barack Obama’s healthcare initiative – Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) – will become a major issue in this fall’s presidential election. This was the gist of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Robert’s opinion that upheld the law. For Roberts, the Federal government’s power to tax […]
LAKE BUENA VISTA, Fla.–Does a fork or dinner knife pose an unacceptable danger to President Barack Obama? One wouldn’t think so, given the hundreds of lunches and dinners he’s attended ranging from state dinners to political fundraisers to run-of-the-mill stops on the rubber-chicken circuit. However, at one such lunch Friday afternoon, guests heard an unusual […]
Why Roberts Did It He’s the custodian of the Court’s reputation. By Charles Krauthammer It’s the judiciary’s Nixon-to-China: Chief Justice John Roberts joins the liberal wing of the Supreme Court and upholds the constitutionality of Obamacare. How? By pulling off one of the great constitutional finesses of all time. He managed to uphold the central conservative […]
By Grace-Marie Turner “We have to pass the bill so you can find out what is in it.” — Former Speaker Nancy Pelosi, March 2010 Now, all the rest of us are going to find out a lot more about what’s in the 2,700-page health overhaul law. The president now must spend the next four months […]
In a shocking and disappointing verdict, the Supreme Court upheld ObamaCare and it’s individual mandate as a tax, ushering in an unprecedented expansion of government power and handing a huge victory in Obama’s Progressive plan to “fundamentally transform America. The Supreme Court ruled 5-4 today. In a complex ruling, the Supreme Court has partially upheld […]
On June 15, police operating under the orders of leftist Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo sought to evict a group of squatters occupying land reported to be privately owned. The confrontation turned violent, leaving 17 dead, including seven policemen. The violent event produced a shock as Paraguay’s political establishment and the legislative body blamed President Lugo […]
by Ranbir An indigenous people mowed down by armed members of the ruling ‘group’. A peaceful demonstration that ends up as a bloodbath. Unarmed civilians mowed down by guns and tanks in order to remind them of their inferior status. This was the situation when 28 Copts were massacred by the Egyptian military under direct […]
Fast and Furious was an American government program authored by the Obama administration to arm violent drug gangs in Mexico with American weapons. Assault rifles and deadly weapons were purchased from gun stores in Arizona and walked across the border to Mexico on purpose. This resulted in the death of scores of people, including U.S […]
“Rescind the mandate.” That is the demand of many public comments submitted by individuals and groups on the Obama Administration’s proposed “accommodation” to the Obamacare anti-conscience mandate. In the midst of widespread outcry over the Administration’s mandate that nearly all insurance providers must cover abortion drugs and contraception, the Department of Health and Human Services […]
by Wayne Allyn Root: Many millions of people who voted for an unknown Obama 4 years ago are angry, disillusioned, turned off, or scared about the future. Voters now know Obama now- and that is a bad harbinger for Obama. An analysis of 9 of the voting block groups that matter in U.S. politics: 1. […]
