As of December 3, HHS has issued waivers exempting employers, unions, etc. representing over 1.5 million people from ObamaCare. ObamaCare is so great that many of the same unions who pushed for it have asked to be excused (static PDF in case the link changes) from it.
As a bonus, it seems that ObamaCare revoked a [...]
A gay Texas couple recently held an e-wedding using Washington, D.C. law. Now who ever would have seen that coming?
It’s amazing to me that Progressives Regressives still pass themselves off has being pro-freedom. As far as I can tell their ideology is about control and little else at this point. Case in point: San Francisco just banned the Happy Meal.
Can you really claim to be interested in liberty while banning Happy Meals? Maybe they’ll [...]
I think our side can serve up a heaping plateful of We Told You So. ObamaCare will, indeed, raise the cost of healthcare.
I can across this in the explanatory comments of the Second Restatement of Torts Law. Restatements are documents produced by the American Legal Institute to describe the current state of laws in certain areas. This comment is in an area on the subject of outrageous conduct relating to the intentional infliction of emotional distress.
The rough [...]
You know conservatives are landing punches when the left starts trotting out the “conservatives are anti-intellectual” argument. The ever-predictable EJ Dionne pulled this one off the shelf today.
It’s not that we’re against the systematic study of ideas. We’re all for it. But for too many intellectuals “systematic study” involves “systematically ignoring” anyone to the right [...]
I received a letter from a private real estate appraisal company which was apparently hired by NJ to perform tax assessments in our township. The letter says the company will be measuring and photographing our houses, and that they will be “conducting an interior inspection”. It further states “it will be necessary…to examine the interior [...]
Woody Allen provides us with yet another example of what the left is really about (power and control). Woody says Obama should “be a dictator for a few years because he could do a lot of good things quickly.”
That’s surprisingly similar to Thomas Friedman’s dreamy column about the awesomeness of one party rule in China. [...]
I had a letter published in today’s Inquirer. Amusingly, Mother Manifesto read the letter in the paper and said “yeah! right on!” before she noticed it was from her son.
It’s amazing how the people who claim to hear the echo of Jim Crow in the tea parties fail to hear the rumble of Marxism on [...]
Just weeks after ObamaCare has been signed into law we’re already starting to hear that the bill is going to raise the cost of healthcare. So it turns out the majority of Americans who were called reactionaries, racists, liars, homophobes, stupid, uneducated, violent and seditious for opposing it were, in fact, right.
Will the luminaries on [...]
I was recently debating a colleague on a variety of political topics. He kept repeating an often-heard lefty refrain, “Republicans want to impose their morality on people”. This is a common talking point and, and best, incomplete.
Setting aside the somewhat esoteric issue of whether all laws are a reflection of morality, is it really [...]
I had the opportunity today to attend the Philadelphia Tax Day Tea Party. It was pretty much what I expected: amusing homemade signs, flags aplenty (both U.S. and Gadsden), pleasant and respectful people. I’d even go so far as to say it was better attended than I anticipated, perhaps a few hundred people. The speakers [...]
The left exaggerates the bad elements of the country’s past (slavery and discrimination, example) as a tool to discredit the better elements (such as limited government and a can-do culture that combined to produce a uniquely prosperous nation). Do they apply the same logic to their own history? To quote John Boehner, “Hell no!”.
The left’s [...]
I heard an interesting interview this morning with PA Attorney General Tom Corbett. He discussed something called a Severability Clause. Apparently severability clauses are typically included in legislation to allow one part of a bill to be thrown out in court without impacting the rest of the legislation. In other words without a severability clause [...]
Now boarding on track 1600, the Fiscal Train Wreck Express, making stops in Kickback Nebraska, Purchased Louisiana and a town near you! Amenities include IRS audits, statist coverage mandates, a crushing tax burden and fiscal instability. Ladies and gentlemen, please note a schedule change: this train will not be stopping at Freedom Junction. All aboard!
Congratulations to Susan McClaren, of Phoenixville, our latest Preening Twit Award winner for this example of leftwing mental puffery.
Imagine what it would be like to be able to see a doctor when one is not feeling well; not to fear care because of cost; and not to be funneled into the overburdened emergency room just [...]
If you ever read the Douglas Adams Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy series you may recall that Adams pokes fun at mankind’s less intelligent tendencies by joking that we’re descended from professional telephone sanitizers exiled from another planet. I’m starting to wonder if he was on to something.
Behold, the California Bureau of Electronic and Appliance [...]
Borepatch has a nice post on progressivism (hat tip to Newbie Shooter). Here’s my current summary of progressive agenda:
1. Guarantee an expansive and virtually unfettered right of individuals to pursue all the meaningless distractions that modern life has to offer.
2. Restrict and regulate the areas of life that actually have real significance (freedom of expression, [...]
New Jersey is a shining example of this. And there is finally some recognition of the fact that NJ is losing many of its wealthiest residents for blindingly obvious reasons: the taxes are too high and the business climate too hostile.
The left, of course, continues to be in denial about a basic fact of the [...]
I have seen repeatedly in the healthcare debate an argument from the left along the lines of “someone who is sick and uninsured isn’t really free”. I always thought that was a bizarre assertion. Well I recently read an article on the Progressive giant, John Dewey and that very formulation played a big role in [...]