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Once-privileged New Yorkers who supported Obamacare are discovering that Obamacare means they’ll be losing some of their privileges: "Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan…They are part of an unusual, informal health insurance system that has developed in New York, in which independent practitioners were able to get lower insurance rates through group plans, typically set up by their professional associations or chambers of commerce… But under the Affordable Care Act, they will be treated as individuals, responsible for their own insurance policies. For many of them, that is likely to...

<p>The New York Times is reporting this news about five years too late, but I guess that’s better than never. Obamacare is forcing thousands of Obama voting, well educated, upper class, professionals from New York City to lose their insurance.</p>

Many in New York’s professional and cultural elite have long supported President Obama’s health care plan. But now, to their surprise, thousands of writers, opera singers, music teachers, photographers, doctors, lawyers and others are learning that their health insurance plans are being canceled and they may have to pay more to get comparable coverage, if they can find it. They are part of an unusual informal health insurance system that has developed in New York in which independent practitioners were able to get lower insurance rates through group plans, typically set up by their professional associations or chambers of commerce....

Joel Pollak was interviewed on the "Dennis Prager Show" and discussed the latest developments in Breitbart.com's ongoing effort to "vet the Prez."

President Barack Obama's nomination to the U.S. Supreme court, Elena Kagan, has been sold to the public as a "moderate" - yes, a little liberal leaning, but moderate none the less. In this first of a series of posts, I look at Elena Kagan's patterns of association. If Elena Kagan is a moderate, why then has she long associated with people connected to three interrelated organizations - the Communist Party USA, the Democratic Socialist Organizing Committee/ Democratic Socialists of America and the far left Washington D.C. think tank, Institute for Policy Studies? Raised on New Yorks' Upper West Side, Elena...

A reporter from the Christian Science Monitor offered the first response to publicist Maria Sliwa's e-mail queries to news organizations about whether they would like to receive a review copy of "The Manchurian President: Barack Obama's Ties to Communists, Socialists and Other Anti-American Extremists." The answer was "no." But it wasn't just "no." The reporter called the book by journalist-author-WABC radio host Aaron Klein and researcher Brenda J. Elliott -- at the time embargoed and thus unread -- a name for toilet paper I'd rather not print. Reflexively, Sliwa hit the delete button

President Barack Obama has nominated Mari Carmen Aponte to become the next ambassador of El Salvador, a decade after she was forced to withdrawal her name from consideration for a similar post following concerns about alleged ties to Cuba, Newsmax.com reports. A former FBI official told Fox News that Aponte’s 1998 nomination by president Clinton began receiving attention after the foreign relations panel questioned her about a past relationship with Roberto Tamayo, who was alleged to have "possible ties to the Cuban government" and made "repeated trips there." Current White House spokesman Tommy Vietor responded, "as has been previously reported,...

Is it possible that as brilliant as our Founding Fathers were, perchance they gave us a little too much credit? Notwithstanding their sagacity, the Founders likely never envisaged a scenario in which the American people would elect a Commander in Chief who is a national security risk.

A Muslim scholar chosen to speak at President-elect Barack Obama's inaugural prayer service Wednesday is the leader of a group that federal prosecutors say has ties to terrorists. Ingrid Mattson, president of the Islamic Society of North America, is one of many religious leaders scheduled to speak at the prayer service at Washington's National Cathedral. Mattson has been the guest of honor at State Department dinners and has met with senior Pentagon officials during the Bush administration. She also spoke at a prayer service at the Democratic National Convention in Denver. Mattson, who was elected president of the society in...

In his life and career in Illinois, President-elect Barack Obama has crossed paths with some notable figures who have drawn scorn and scrutiny. Among them: GOV. ROD BLAGOJEVICH: Obama has maintained a cordial but distant relationship with Blagojevich during the governor's tenure. He has complimented Blagojevich for running "a sound administration" with "the right priorities." He supported his fellow Democrat for re-election in 2006, even though the governor backed someone else over Obama in the U.S. Senate Democratic primary. Obama's circle of major Illinois political allies and supporters is largely separate from Blagojevich's, with two major exceptions. Both Obama and...

As Barack Obama's candidacy for the Presidency of the United States continues its rapid and historic meltdown, I thought I might offer - free of charge, mind you, because I am a kind-hearted man - some strategic advice to The One, Lord Obama the Munificent, so that he can re-gain some sense of traction and focus in these final few hours of the campaign. First, a quick perspective on the dizzying developments of the past month .... As any astute political observer can tell you, the turning point in this Presidential campaign was when Obama approached a humble Ohio plumber,...

The nightmare is beginning. And it is beginning to feel more like the Dawn of the Living Dead than the day after Halloween.

But now, perhaps, the trick is on you. The American people are starting to realize that if you look like a Marxist and act like a Marxist, you are probably a Marxist.

In his books, Obama admits attending "Socialist Conferences" and coming into contact with Marxist literature. But he ridicules the charge of being a "hard-core academic Marxist". Through Frank Marshall Davis, Obama had an admitted relationship with someone identified as a memebr of the Communist Party USA (CPUSA). The 1951 report of the Commission on Subversive Activities to the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii, identified him as a CPUSA member. Obama developed a close relationship, almost like a son, with Davis. Listening to his "poetry" and getting advice on his career path. You will find it briefly discussed in Obama's...

“When there is a gap between one’s real and one’s declared aims, one turns … to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish spurting out ink.” — George Orwell, “Politics and the English Language,” 1946 There are three important truths regarding Orwell’s observation: First, it pertains not to one year or era but to all time. Second, the corruption that underlies it is destructive of much more than discourse. Third, its implicit warning becomes especially relevant when a politician cleverly employs language to elicit a cult-like response from a perfectly faithful flock he anoints as part of a “movement.”

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Don’t be shocked if you see the McCain campaign pull the controversial Rev. Jeremiah Wright out of mothballs in new attacks against one-time parishioner, Barack Obama. McCain advisers say that they see “attack by association” as fair game now, arguing that Obama’s campaign has been using that technique to go after McCain. In particular, the Obama campaign has hammered McCain on the stump and in TV ads on the number of one-time lobbyists working for his campaign. (The McCain campaign is also angry about a Spanish-language TV ad that ties McCain to Rush Limbaugh on immigration, without ever saying that...

Obama held himself above the pack, pretending to be the mulatto messiah — possessing saintly cleanliness. But his artificial vestments have been soiled by a maniac preacher, an America loathing spouse, and a criminal cohort. Each of these relationships are long standing. Obama would have to be blind and stupid to have not seen or heard the echoes of the beliefs and actions of each of these people. Obama knew all of this and simply hoped the toxic associations would not be revealed.

CLAREMONT - There will not be a sequel to the mini-scandal known in some circles as "Flag-gate." Claraboya residents, many of whom were engaged in a fierce neighborhood dispute over tiny American flags during last year's Fourth of July season, have pledged to behave themselves this year. Tom and Nancy Telford, the two neighborhood real estate agents who planted flags last year in their neighbors' front yards with Nancy Telford's business card attached, left off the business cards this year, and mailed out a postcard to their neighbors giving them an advance opportunity to decline a flag. Last year, after...

Many conservatives, including myself, continue to be surprised and impressed by Rudy Giuliani’s poll numbers. To be sure, he’s a very likable candidate, but conventional wisdom insisted that, once he entered the race, his liberal social stances would doom GOP Primary chances. In fact, a new poll shows Rudy Giuliani doing surprisingly well among Evangelical voters. Still, it's early, and fair to say that most conservatives don’t know the extent of Giuliani’s positions. Most conservative voters probably don’t know, for example, that, as Mayor, Giuliani supported -- not just abortion rights -- but partial-birth abortion. (So far, when it has...