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41% of American Young People Think Luigiâ€™s Drastic Actions Were "Acceptable"

Andrew Anglin •ï¿½December 19, 2024

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Related: Fundraiser to Cover Luigi Mangioneâ€™s Legal Bills Raises More Than $120,000 The country has never been more united. If Donald Trump comes out and says the Obamacare stooge â€œdeserved it,â€ weâ€™ll be off to the races. Note that Trump hasnâ€™t said anything about this. But of course, Trump is saying horrible, gay things. It... Read More

Obamacareâ€™s Unhappy Anniversary

Ron Paul •ï¿½April 8, 2019

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Last month marked nine years since the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (popularly known as Obamacare) became law. Obamacareâ€™s proponents promised that the law would reduce costs, expand access, and allow us to keep our doctors if we liked our doctors. The reality has been quite different. Since Obamacare was enacted, individual health insurance... Read More

Is the Affordable Care Act Unconstitutional?

Andrew Napolitano •ï¿½April 4, 2019

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"If the provisions of the Constitution be not upheld when they pinch, as well as when they comfort, they may as well be abandoned." -- Justice George Sutherland (1862-1942) Here we go again. The legal battle over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act -- Obamacare -- will soon be back in court due to... Read More

Trump and Obamacare

Andrew Napolitano •ï¿½October 19, 2017

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Late last week, President Donald Trump signed an executive order directing the secretaries of the treasury and health and human services to cease making payments to health care insurance companies in behalf of the more than 6 million Americans who qualify for these payments under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, commonly known as... Read More

Ann Jones: Can the Age of Trump Spur Medicare for All?

Tom Engelhardt •ï¿½August 1, 2017

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Over the years, Ann Jones has confronted some of the most daunting and depressing issues on the planet: the abuse of women, African civil wars, the disaster that is Afghanistan, and -- as reflected in her book They Were Soldiers: How the Wounded Return From Americaâ€™s Wars -- the plight of American casualties of the... Read More

Scandinavia in Maryland?

Medicare for All in One State

Ann Jones •ï¿½August 1, 2017

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You may have noticed that quite a few of the formerly united states of America have been choosing to go their own way. My own state, Massachusetts, now blooms with sanctuary cities sworn to protect residents from federal intrusion. Its attorney general, Maura Healey, was among the first to raise the legal challenge to President... Read More

Republican Healthcare Plan Fails the â€˜Jimmy Kimmel Testâ€™

Ron Paul •ï¿½June 26, 2017

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This week the Senate Republican leadership unveiled its Obamacare replacement plan. Like its House counterpart, the misnamed Senate plan retains most of Obamacareâ€™s core features.Both the House and Senate plans allow states to obtain waivers providing relief from some Obamacare mandates, although the waivers in both bills are too restrictive to be of much value.... Read More

The House of Representatives Endorses Obamacare

Andrew Napolitano •ï¿½May 11, 2017

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Last week, the U.S. House of Representatives crafted a partisan compromise bill that endorsed and reinforced the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare. This was done notwithstanding claims to the contrary by President Donald Trump and the House Republican leadership, who want us to believe that this bill, if it becomes law, will effectively repeal and... Read More

Is Health Care a Right or a Good?

Andrew Napolitano •ï¿½March 30, 2017

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The political fiasco that unfolded last week as President Donald Trump and the Republican House leadership failed to pass legislation repealing the Affordable Care Act, commonly called Obamacare, is attributable as much to the failure of politics as it is to the failure of politicians to understand the constitutional role of the federal government. Republicans... Read More

The Ryancare Rout -- Winning by Losing?

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½March 28, 2017

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Did the Freedom Caucus just pull the Republican Party back off the ledge, before it jumped to its death? A case can be made for that. Before the American Health Care Act, aka "Ryancare," was pulled off the House floor Friday, it enjoyed the support -- of 17 percent of Americans. Had it passed, it... Read More

Obamacare Repeal or Obamacare 2.0?

Ron Paul •ï¿½March 19, 2017

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This Thursday, the House of Representatives will vote on a Republican bill that supposedly repeals Obamacare. However, the bill retains Obamacareâ€™s most destructive features. That is not to say this legislation is entirely without merit. For example, the bill expands the amount individuals can contribute to a health savings account (HSA). HSAs allow individuals to... Read More

Donald Trump, Revolutionary

Andrew Napolitano •ï¿½January 26, 2017

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Within four hours of becoming president of the United States, Donald Trump signed an executive order intended to limit immediately the effects of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) in ways that are revolutionary. With the stroke of a pen, the president assaulted the heart of the law that was the domestic centerpiece... Read More

Health Care Hither and Yon

An Invitation to Scream about Socialism

Fred Reed •ï¿½December 8, 2016

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Almost all advanced countries, if not all, have national medical care. It is telling that in the debate over Obamacare, few looked at systems in other countries to see how well what worked. The reason seems to have been a mixture of the classic American arrogance and lack of interest in anything beyond the borders.... Read More

Obama's Victory Lap?

Lots of talk, not much to show

Philip Giraldi •ï¿½November 1, 2016

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In between nearly daily campaign stops shilling for Hillary, President Barack Obama has been promoting his record as Head of State. To Obamaâ€™s credit, he talks nice and appears to be both thoughtful and rational, qualities that were not always evident in his predecessor in office. But the hype about what was achieved in his... Read More

The Right Lessons from Obamacare's Meltdown

Ron Paul •ï¿½August 28, 2016

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The decision of several major insurance companies to cut their losses and withdraw from the Obamacare exchanges, combined with the failure of 70 percent of Obamacare's health insurance â€œco-ops, â€ will leave one in six Obamacare enrollees with only one health insurance option. If Obamacare continues on its current track, most of America may resemble... Read More

Obamacareâ€™s Best Allies: The Courts and the Republicans

Ron Paul •ï¿½June 28, 2015

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By ruling for the government in the case of King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court once again tied itself into rhetorical and logical knots to defend Obamacare. In King, the court disregarded Obamacareâ€™s clear language regarding eligibility for federal health care subsides, on the grounds that enforcing the statute as written would cause havoc in... Read More

Jonathan Gruber: Honest Liberal

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½December 12, 2014

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Brought before a House inquisition, MIT professor and Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber burbled a recantation of his beliefs about how that triumph of liberalism had been achieved. Yet, something needs to be said in defense of Gruber. For while he groveled and confessed to the sin of arrogance, what this Ivy League con artist boasted... Read More

Hobby Lobby Case Is About Rights, Not Contraceptives

Ron Paul •ï¿½December 8, 2013

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One of the most important cases the US Supreme Court will consider this term is Hobby Lobbyâ€™s lawsuit challenging the Obamacare mandate that employer-provided health care plans must cover abortion and contraceptives. Hobby Lobby, a corporation owned and managed by a traditional Christian family, argues that the mandate violates their First Amendment rights. Much of... Read More

Will Obamacare be the Death of Liberalism?

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½November 22, 2013

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By 1968, Walter Lippmann, the dean of liberal columnists, had concluded that liberalism had reached the end of its tether. In that liberal epoch, the 1960s, the Democratic Party had marched us into an endless war that was tearing America apart. Lyndon Johnson's Great Society had produced four "long, hot summers" of racial riots and... Read More

The Shutdown and the Rollout

Andrew Napolitano •ï¿½November 21, 2013

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Here is a quick pop quiz. Which presented more harm to human life and personal freedom: the four-week partial shutdown of the federal government last month or the rollout of Obamacare this month? Obamacare is the greatest single expansion of federal regulatory authority in American history. In one stroke, it puts 16 percent of American... Read More

The First Hustler Runs the Big Con

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½November 1, 2013

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"Nothing is lost save honor." So said Jim Fisk after he and Jay Gould survived yet another scrape in their corrupt and storied careers in the Gilded Age Fisk's dismissal of honor came to mind while watching Barack Obama in Boston smugly explain how his vow -- "If you like your health care plan, you... Read More

A Queen in Obamaland

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½October 25, 2013

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The pots and pans are clanging for the ouster of Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius as the Obamacare website rollout takes on the aspect of that of the Edsel. Yet, though it is a website that has America laughing, Obama's legacy legislation itself could, in its entirety, be in peril. As ex-pilot George... Read More

Goldwater-Rockefeller Redux

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½October 15, 2013

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"History does not repeat itself, but it does rhyme." Mark Twain's insight comes to mind as one observes the panic of Beltway Republicans over the latest polls in the battle of Obamacare. According to Gallup, approval of the Republican Party has sunk 10 points in two weeks to 28 percent, an all-time low. In the... Read More

The Beltway Lies of the Obamacare War

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½October 1, 2013

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"In wartime, truth is so precious that she should always be attended by a bodyguard of lies," said Winston Churchill. What is the truth behind the Beltway lies about these crazy Republicans crashing our government? Twice in the last week House Republicans have voted unanimously to fund the U.S. government. If national polls are to... Read More

Fix Bayonets!

Pat Buchanan •ï¿½September 27, 2013

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After his narrow defeat by Gerald Ford at the Kansas City convention in 1976, Ronald Reagan was seen as a has-been. Came the Carter-Torrijos treaties of 1977, however, which gave away the Panama Canal, and the old cowboy strapped on his guns: "We bought it. We paid for it. It's ours. And we're gonna keep... Read More

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