Posts Tagged ‘obamacare’
600 More Days of Obama
By Alan Caruba As of May 30, 2011, America has 600 days more of rule by President Barack Hussein Obama. He is the 44th President and, while we have had incompetent Presidents in the past, we have never had one determined to destroy the nation. It has taken a year and a half for most sentient Americans to grasp this extraordinary threat. [...]
What We’ve Learned from the Budget Debate
By Phyllis Schlafly Barack Obama's runaway spending is the top issue with grassroots Americans. The problem is a long way from solved, but we've learned a lot from the budget debate. U.S. voters are still vehement in demanding repeal of ObamaCare and the extra spending it includes. Support for Obama's signature legislation has dropped to [...]
How About a National Obamacare Waiver?
By Mike Brownfield, Heritage Foundation If you knew a dangerous virus was about to hit America and that you could beg the government for a vaccine, you’d probably do it, wouldn’t you? That’s just what states and businesses alike are doing right now in preparation for Obamacare. But rather than seeking a vaccine, they’re asking for [...]
Documents Raise Questions about Supreme Court Justice Kagan’s Role in Obamacare Defense
Kagan Directs Staff to “Be Involved” in Crafting Defense of Obamacare Liberty Alerts, Judicial Watch Washington, DC. Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has obtained documents suggesting Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan helped coordinate the Obama [...]
ObamaCare vs. RyanMedicare in 2012
By Ellie Velinska Democrats are jumping on the grenade called ObamaCare defending the party line for two years now. They are not alone anymore. The republicans have their own version of a health care proposal that will cost them many lost elections: the Ryan Medicare. Despite the unpopularity of the idea to leave the future seniors on the mercy [...]
ACLJ to DC Appeals Court: Reinstate Lawsuit & Declare ObamaCare Unconstitutional
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice We are back in court on our legal challenge of ObamaCare. Today, we filed a brief urging a federal appeals court to reinstate our federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of ObamaCare. As you may recall, our suit was dismissed by a federal district court in February. A [...]
Trade Agreements Cost Jobs
By Phyllis Schlafly The first debate of the 2012 presidential race, with personalized, provocative questions planned by Fox News, was good political entertainment, but somehow didn't get around to tackling two of the biggest issues. They are: how do the candidates plan to replace the millions of U.S. middle-class jobs that have gone [...]
Liberty University Challenge to ObamaCare Argued at Court of Appeals
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Yesterday Mathew D. Staver, Founder and Chairman of Liberty Counsel and Dean of Liberty University School of Law, presented the first oral argument at the federal court of appeals in the case Liberty University v. Geithner, argued at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit in Richmond, Virginia. [...]
Federal Healthcare Law Faces its Biggest Challenge Tuesday at Court of Appeals
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel The oral argument in Liberty University v. Geithner will be heard at the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit at 1000 East Main Street, Richmond, Virginia, on Tuesday, May 10, 2011, at 9:30 a.m. ET. Immediately following the Liberty University case, the court will hear arguments in the Virginia [...]
Calling on Appeals Court to Uphold Unconstitutional Finding for ObamaCare in FL Case
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice As we continue to prepare for the latest filing in our federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionally-flawed ObamaCare, I want to inform you about an important filing today in a federal appeals court on behalf of tens of thousands of you - and many members of Congress. Today we [...]
Bachmann Exposes $105 Billion Secret
By Phyllis Schlafly Congresswoman Michele Bachmann, who was a tax lawyer before she was elected to office, has again demonstrated her extraordinary leadership. She discovered $100 billion of taxpayers’ money that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi hid in ObamaCare. When ObamaCare was passed by the Senate on Christmas Eve 2009, Senators had [...]
Federal Healthcare Law to be Argued Next Week at Court of Appeals in Richmond, VA
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Mat Staver will present oral argument at the federal court of appeals on Tuesday, May 10, 2011 at 9:30 am ET, challenging the constitutionality of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, often referred to as “ObamaCare.” The case, Liberty University v. Geithner, will be heard at the United [...]
No Fast Track for ObamaCare
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It rarely happens, but we were hopeful the Supreme Court would fast track the Commonwealth of Virginia's lawsuit challenging ObamaCare. Today, the high court said it would not expedite the matter, leaving it to proceed through the normal appeals court process. We're disappointed, but [...]
Medicare Chief Berwick Uses Free-Market Analogy to Defend Obamacare
Liberty Alerts, Penny Star, CNSNews.com Donald Berwick, administrator for the Centers of Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), on Tuesday used a free-market analogy to defend the Democrats' new health care law, which expands government control over Americans' health-care choices. Berwick said health care is “just like any other [...]
$1 Billion Obamacare Initiative Will “Keep Patients Safe”
Liberty Alerts, Corruption Chronicles Among the more clever provisions of President Obama’s healthcare overhaul is a billion-dollar initiative the administration guarantees will “save lives” by putting an end to “millions of preventable injuries and complications in patient care.” This, in turn, will improve care and lower [...]
So Refreshing; Congress Doing Its Job
By Phyllis Schlafly Republican Members of the House of Representatives, goaded on by TEA Partiers, have made a good start in fulfilling their promise to cut $100 billion out of current spending of taxpayers' money. The House approved 66 amendments, most on roll-call votes by big majorities, to the Act called the Full-Year Continuing [...]
GOP Budget Proposal: ‘Not a Penny’ for Obamacare
Liberty Alerts, Terence P. Jeffrey, CNSNews.com The fiscal 2012 budget proposal unveiled today by House Budget Chairman Paul Ryan (R.-Wis.) offers sweeping reforms in federal spending, including defunding and repealing the health-care law signed last year by President Barack Obama and converting the federal share of the Medicaid program [...]
Backing Virginia’s ObamaCare Challenge at Appeals Court
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice We've filed a critical amicus brief backing the Commonwealth of Virginia's legal challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (PPACA). As you'll recall, U.S. District Court Judge Henry E. Hudson in Richmond ruled in favor of Virginia in December concluding the [...]
Obama, The Great Prevaricator
By Alan Caruba “President Obama told congressional leaders there are no plans to use the U.S. military to assassinate Libyan strongman Muammar Gadhafi — despite the administration’s policy of seeking regime change in the North African country — according to sources familiar with a Friday White House Situation Room briefing.” -- [...]
Anti-Gun ObamaCare Celebrates One Yr. Of Lies and Screw-ups
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America Not since “Rosemary’s Baby” – a ground-breaking film about the birth of the son of Satan – has a one-year-old brought so much bad news during its first year of life. But, believe it or not, ObamaCare turned one-year-old this week. And what a year it’s been! Remember the promises that ObamaCare [...]
Rep. Chris Smith: Defund Obamacare and Planned Parenthood in Next CR
Liberty Alerts, Christopher Goins, CNSNews.com Reps. Steve King (R-Iowa) and Michelle Bachmann (R-Minn.) recently asked the House leaders not to move another CR that permits the $105.5 billion in automatically appropriated funds for the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) spending to go forward. CNSNews.com asked Rep. Chris Smith [...]
Gunnies Take it on the Chin
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America In a defeat for fiscal and Second Amendment conservatives, the House and Senate this week approved a short-term “continuing resolution” (CR) to extend the operation of the government for three weeks -- until April 8. The CR would continue to fund anti-gun ObamaCare, ATF’s illegal multiple sales [...]
ObamaCare Challenge on the Fast Track
Liberty Alerts, American Center for Law and Justice It's an important development in our pursuit to have ObamaCare declared unconstitutional. A federal appeals court today cleared the way for our legal challenge to be put on the fast track - an expedited appeal before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit. This is [...]
Bachmann Exposes $105 Billion Secret
By Phyllis Schlafly Rep. Michele Bachmann (R-MN) has again demonstrated her extraordinary leadership in the U.S. House. She discovered $105 billion of taxpayers' money that Barack Obama and Nancy Pelosi had hidden in ObamaCare. Now Rep. Bachmann wants her colleagues to refuse to pass must-pass bills, such as the Continuing Resolution or [...]
Senate to Consider Anti-gun Funding Resolution on Thursday
Liberty Alerts, Gun Owners of America On Wednesday, the U.S. House ignored the wishes of millions of American voters and passed a do-nothing “Continuing Resolution” (CR) to fund the government for the next three weeks. The CR now heads to the Senate for an expected vote on Thursday. Gun Owners of America has written Senate members to let [...]
Oral Argument Against “ObamaCare” at Court of Appeals Set on May 10
Liberty Alerts, Liberty Counsel Richmond, VA – Liberty Counsel Founder and Chairman Mat Staver will present oral argument on May 10, 2011, at 9:30 AM Eastern Time in the case of Liberty University v. Geithner. The case, which challenges “ObamaCare,” will be heard at the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals at 1000 East Main Street, [...]
Why Obama Will Be Defeated in 2012
By Alan Caruba To this observer, the likelihood of Barack Obama being reelected in 2012 is so remote that I can safely predict it will not happen. Of course, as is commonly said, two weeks, let alone two years, is a long time in politics and all manner of events could intervene, but if one follows the trends in place, he will be a one term [...]
Duped! Relentless Marxist Deception
By Alan Caruba “The American people will never knowingly adopt Socialism. But, under the name of ‘liberalism’, they will adopt every fragment of the Socialist program, until one day America will be a socialist nation, without knowing how it happened.” Norman Thomas, former U.S. Socialist Party president candidate Those of my [...]
Judge Orders ‘Expedited Appeal’ of Obamacare for the Good of the Nation
Liberty Alerts, Susan Jones, CNSNews.com A federal judge in Florida, clearly annoyed by the Justice Department's request for "clarification" of his ruling that the new health care law is unconstitutional, on Thursday granted a stay of his February ruling -- but only if the government files an appeal seeking an expedited review of that ruling, [...]
How to Replace ObamaCare
By Phyllis Schlafly The U.S. House fulfilled its promise when it voted to repeal the law called ObamaCare, which grants 2,000 powers to the Secretary of Health and Human Services. For example, regulators will decide what clinical drugs seniors will be allowed to get. The regulators are empowered to use "comparative effectiveness research" [...]
