I’ve asked before: Is Obama “faithfully executing” the laws of the United States or isn’t he? =========== A year ago President Obama signed the Magnitsky Act, an historic human-rights bill aimed at Russian abuses. [As far as I understand, this is the law of the land.] The Administration has now marked the anniversary by flouting the law and reneging on its promise... Read more
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Suing Over ObamaCare Exemptions for Congress
January 6 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareWill be interesting to see how far this effort is able to go. At face value, it certainly seems to make sense. ========== By RON JOHNSON Jan. 5, 2014 6:06 p.m. ET On Monday, Jan. 6, I am filing suit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin to make Congress live by the letter of the health-care law it imposed... Read more
Obama Repeals ObamaCare
December 29 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareChange has come…. Ruling by executive fiat. ============ It seems Nancy Pelosi was wrong when she said “we have to pass” ObamaCare to “find out what’s in it.” No one may ever know because the White House keeps treating the Affordable Care Act’s text as a mere suggestion subject to day-to-day revision. Its latest political retrofit is the most brazen: President Obama... Read more
What to Do When ObamaCare Unravels
December 25 | Posted by mrossol | American Thought, Health, ObamaCareShort on details – maybe not the author’s objective. But worth the read. ============= By John H. Cochrane Dec. 25, 2013 3:51 p.m. ET The unraveling of the Affordable Care Act presents a historic opportunity for change. Its proponents call it “settled law,” but as Prohibition taught us, not even a constitutional amendment is settled law—if it is dysfunctional enough, and if... Read more
National Lampoon’s ObamaCare Vacation
December 20 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareWhen you’ve never done anything but organize communities, this is what you get. ============ President Obama has responded to the ObamaCare debacle by bringing in Beltway liberal mastermind John Podesta as a senior West Wing hand, and he promptly announced his arrival by likening House Republicans to “a cult worthy of Jonestown” in an interview with Politico. The states running their... Read more
ObamaCare’s Troubles Are Only Beginning
December 16 | Posted by mrossol | ObamaCareOnly beginning. Will you be able to keep your HSA? Will it be pre-tax? Better start asking some questions. ============ By Michael J. Boskin – Dec. 15, 2013 6:24 p.m. ET The White House is claiming that the Healthcare.gov website is mostly fixed, that the millions of Americans whose health plans were canceled thanks to government rules may be able to keep them... Read more
