Economics · Health Care · Liberty · Politics
ObamaCare on the Brink
The most significant entitlement increase since the Great Society will be operating on the honor system. Here is where the technocrat’s mask slips, and the ideologue smiles through.
Tagged: Obama administration
Not so bright lights
So-called “renewable energy” is not clean, renewable, reliable, affordable or sustainable… “Renewable energy” is a sexy term used to drive public policies and spending.
Budgets/Taxes · Economics · Featured · Politics
How Does President Obama’s Economic Recovery Compare To Those Of Other Presidents?
The dramatic contrast between the results of Obama’s policies and Reagan’s policies have already resolved the debate our current president is having talking to himself on his “economic tour.”
Featured · Health Care · Politics
Five Lessons From Obamacare Supporters
[T]here is now more willingness than ever of the lefty health policy types to admit that Obamacare solves very little in terms of what it is aiming to achieve.
Featured · Health Care · Politics
WATCH: Heartland’s Ben Domenech Talks Obamacare on The Blaze TV
Heartland’s Ben Domenech recently appeared on The Blaze TV to debate the tactics the GOP should employ in its efforts to combat Obamacare and its effects.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
Does the Doctor Need a Boss?
The idea that a Washington bureaucracy should determine how much and what kind of integration an industry should have is more than a little troubling, but that seems to be what Einer Elhauge would like to have ObamaCare’s Independent Payment Advisory Board do, and do it through regulation alone — no more messy congressional squabbles.
Featured · Legal Affairs · Media · Politics
The Meaning of the Zimmerman Trial
We need more of the common sense, free of intellectually corrupting “political correctness,” displayed by the Zimmerman jury among our national leaders.
Economics · Featured · Health Care · Politics
WATCH: Heartland’s Ben Domenech on the President’s Obamacare Campaign
Ben Domenech, Heartland’s Health Care Research Fellow, and Managing Editor of Health Care News, appeared on The Blaze TV yesterday as part of a panel to talk about President Obama’s campaign-like speech on Obamacare.
Featured · Health Care · Legal Affairs · Liberty · Politics
The Lawless President
Official, governing opinions of the Office of Legal Counsel of the U.S. Justice Department state that the President has the power to decline to enforce laws he believes are unconstitutional. “But these opinions have always insisted that the President has no authority…to ‘refuse to enforce a statute he opposes for policy reasons.’”
Economics · Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
As The Earth Cools, Obama’s Still Distracted By A Fraudulent Warming Narrative
People who believe in catastrophic anthropogenic global warming do so because psychologically they want to believe in it! There are two fundamental reasons for that desire, or need to believe: money and power.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Liberty · Politics
The Shot Heard Around the World–Revisited
When considering history of the United States, it is obvious President Obama’s orders cause greater harm to our citizens than taxes mandated by George III back in the 1770s.
Party Time for Corporations Who Love the Regulatory Favoritism Game
President Obama’s speech last week that re-emphasized his commitment to reduce US carbon dioxide emissions brought dismay to those who appreciate affordable energy, but it sparked a celebration among corporate types who have long sought caps and taxes on CO2.
Environment/Energy · Featured · Politics
Obama’s Climate Action Plan: Emphasize What Won’t Work; Penalize What Works
The fact that natural gas is only given cursory mention, rather than being an integral part of Obama’s National Climate Action Plan, exposes his true motives—which, I believe, are not really about carbon emission reductions, but rather furthering America’s declining international status. Why else would he emphasize what has proven to not to work and eschew what we know to be effective?
Economics · Featured · Politics
‘Welfare State’ Doesn’t Adequately Describe How Much America’s Poor Control Your Wallet
The term “welfare state” does not begin to encompass the totality of America’s commitment of resources to aid the poor. It is more like a vast empire bigger than the entire budgets of almost every other country in the world.
Obama’s Climate Obsession
Yes, the United States of America is being run by a man who believes that transferring $25 from every man, woman, and child in America to third world countries in the name of “climate assistance” is progress — and is just the beginning.
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Readable Links- Major Sports Organizations Discuss Climate Change with Bicameral Task Force
- Will Liberalism Implode? | RealClearPolitics
- Obama’s Humpty Dumpty fix: Health insurance market should put itself back together again
- Millennials: Obama Thinks You’re Stupid | FreedomWorks
- The Bureaucracy on Autopilot
- Jonah Goldberg - Obamacare Schadenfreudarama
- House Democratic Leaders: We Will Not Apologize to Americans Losing Their Health Insurance
