With the ink barely dry from President Obama’s signature, the attorneys general in more than a dozen states went to court. They filed lawsuits challenging the constitutionality of Obamacare’s individual mandate requiring virtually all Americans to purchase health insurance.
On his “Is it legal” segment last night, Bill O’Reilly posed the bottom-line question: What are the [...]
Constitutional Challenge To Obamacare
March 24, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The Stupak Exodus
March 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Do I get credit for using a biblical metaphor in reference to Stupak that doesn’t involve Judas?
For Congressman Bart Stupak’s abortion “deal” — securing an ineffectual executive order signed by the president to ostensibly prohibit the use of federal funds for abortion in accordance with the Hyde Amendment — the pro-life Democrat is now hemorrhaging [...]
HCR – Democrats in Winter – Part Deux
March 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
A few days ago I took issue with the idea that Obama’s Health Care Reform bill would be his “Waterloo” and suggested instead it would be a long, slow, grinding defeat more along the lines of Napoleon’s retreat from Russia. Nothing in the last twenty-four hours has dissuaded me from this view.
I appreciate this puts me [...]
Universal Health Care Action Network
March 22, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Founded in 1992, the Universal Health Care Action Network (UHCAN) supports a single-payer health care system controlled by the federal government. It has partnered in its national campaigns with the George Soros- and Teresa Heinz Kerry-funded Health Care for America Now!. UHCAN’s former Executive Director Ken Frisof worked closely with the Democratic Socialists of America to promote a single-payer system. To view the full [...]
First, Do No Harm…. Second, Do No Harm…. Third, Do No Harm….
March 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Here we are in crunch time and it occurred to me: Why hasn’t the first principle of medical care itself – ”First, do no harm“ – not been the rallying cry of conservative, common sense opposition to federal takeover of health care? Not just rallying cry, but conservatives’ rhetorical cudgel-of-choice to wield against proponents of this massive (395,096-word) and [...]
Breaking Bad on Health Care
March 21, 2010 By Leave a Comment
The pretend “Demon Pass” vote in the House looks like it will pass Sunday. All the ifs, ands, buts and maybes seem to be breaking the Democrats’ way. It is fitting that AMC’s award winning Breaking Bad series has its season opener Sunday night. The show’s protagonist, average and ordinary high school chemistry teacher Walter [...]
HCR and the Long Retreat from Moscow
March 20, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Jim DeMint famously characterized the Health Care Reform bill as President Obama’s Waterloo, a statement that earned him the disdain of every pipe-puffer and low comedian in the MSM Rolodex. While I stand second to none in my admiration for Senator DeMint I have to admit his critics were half-right (representing a one-time 50% improvement [...]
Dear Media Matters: Catholics call them ’sins of omission’
March 19, 2010 By Leave a Comment
Media Matters‘ latest “gotcha” goes like this:
National Catholic Reporter Endorses Health Care Bill
With some pro-lifers trying to make the health care debate an argument over abortion, it was interesting to see the National Catholic Reporter, which knows a thing or two about anti-abortion views, come out in favor of the Obama health care plan.
And then [...]
