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It didn't take long after ObamaCare was upheld by the Supreme Court for CNN to browbeat Republicans about accepting defeat and getting behind the law. Anchor Brooke Baldwin asked Sen. Roy Blunt (R-Mo.) on Thursday afternoon why he was still fighting a law opposed by a majority of Americans. "You lost in 2010 when this law was passed, you lost again today. Yet you are still pushing for the repeal of this law. Doesn't that make you look kind of like a sore loser?" Baldwin obnoxiously asked.

The U.S. Su­preme Court up­held the con­sti­tu­tion­al­ity of Pres­id­ent Obama’s health­care law Thursday, rul­ing the gov­ern­ment may im­pose tax pen­al­ties on per­sons who do not have health in­sur­ance. Supreme Court opinion on Obama’s healthcare law

The Supreme Court’s decision, announced Monday, in Arizona v. United States opens the way for sensible reform of our immigration laws.Barack Obama and his administration have taken heart that the court overturned Arizona’s state penalties for illegal immigrants. The idea is that states can’t pile higher penalties on top of those voted by Congress, just as states can’t deport people whom Congress allowed into the country.But the much more significant part of the case was the unanimous 8–0 (Justice Kagan not voting) ruling upholding the Arizona provision authorizing state and local law-enforcement personnel to help enforce federal law by...

They chanted. They marched. They sat cross-legged on the two-lane highway in front of the Montgomery County Correctional Facility in Lower Providence Township on Thursday, closing it to traffic for more than 90 minutes. "No papers, no fear, immigrants are marching here!" the three dozen or so demonstrators shouted. "Hey, Obama, don't deport my mama!" After a police lieutenant with a bullhorn asked the protesters three times to disperse, officers swooped in on foot and on bicycles, and made three arrests. Handcuffed and taken into custody were Jose Luna, 23; Erika Guadalupe Nunez, 21; and Sheila Quintana, 19. Luna is...

The one with no sin, will judge.

On the eve of the Supreme Court’s health care ruling Thursday morning, a Democratic group has uncovered what it said was fresh evidence of Mitt Romney’s one-time embrace of the individual insurance mandate that he now scorns. Video of Mr. Romney from a March 2006 news conference when he was governor of Massachusetts shows the presumptive Republican nominee praising the passage of an individual mandate in the legislature as an “essential” part of the reforms he advocated. “With regards to the individual mandate, the individual responsibility program that I proposed, I was very pleased that the compromise between the two...

The United States gave China a six-month reprieve from Iran financial sanctions on Thursday, avoiding a diplomatic spat with a country whose support it needs to try to quell violence in Syria and rein in Tehran's nuclear ambitions. With Thursday's decision to grant exceptions to China, which buys up to a fifth of Iran's oil exports, and Singapore, which buys Iranian fuel oil, the Obama administration has now spared all 20 of Iran's major oil buyers from its unilateral sanctions. The sanctions themselves are designed to pressure Iran to curb its nuclear program, which the West believes aims to develop...

It was a standing room only crowd at the Community Center in De Beque Thursday night as nervous residents learned how to protect their property from the advancing Pine Ridge wildfire.

A crisis summit to save the European Union’s single currency broke up in disarray early this morning after Italy and Spain threatened to block “everything” unless they got immediate eurozone aid to bring down their borrowing costs. David Cameron left the Brussels summit at 1am local time, with nine other non-euro EU leaders as the 17 other eurozone member states continued in an emergency session to try and overcome the deadlock. Spain and Italy blocked a flagship €120 billion “growth pact” as Mario Monti, the Italian Prime Minister, warned that there would be gridlock unless the EU mobilised its bailout...

The Supreme Court’s decision to let the core elements of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act stand kicks the fate of the Obama administration’s signature initiative where it properly belongs—into the domain of politics—where a Romney administration would still have ample opportunity to dismantle the main elements of the law. One thing President Romney probably couldn’t do, however, would be the politically expedient step of simply repealing the legally controversial and politically unpopular fine levied on people who decline to purchase health insurance. Both Romney (who embraced a mandate as governor of Massachusetts) and Obama (who opportunistically opposed a...

April 5, 2012 The Real Reason Obama Attacked The Supreme CourtI.M.Citizen Barack Obama disrespected the office of the presidency with a speech he gave earlier this week. His challenge to the Supreme Court’s authority was wrong. They represent an equal but separate power of our government. It is not his place to challenge that authority. Further, to do it while they are considering his case (Obama-care) was unprofessional, undignified and shameful. It is a new low. And, though you’ll never read it in “proper” publications or hear it spoken by talking heads, most of America is asking a simple question,...

ABC News spent all of 30 seconds on the first cabinet member to ever be held in contempt: [VIDEO AT SITE] Shocking right? I mean the there is no MSM bias right? Imagine if this had happened during Bush's tenure....the media ran non-stop stories about the desk jockey at the CIA getting outed but the Attorney General of the United States being held in criminal and civil contempt? Yawn. Pathetic. The House of Representatives voted to hold Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress Thursday for failing to provide documents relating to the Fast and Furious gunwalking program. The...

"In Israel, when doctors went on strike, health outcomes were better. Though I'm not advocating that." - Jan Schakowsky (D-IL)

Today the Supreme Court struck down portions of Obamacare as unconstitutional --states cannot be "dragooned" into expanding their Medicaid programs according to the law’s dictates. However, a list of 50 particularly onerous or egregious provisions in Obamacare (with sections from the statute duly noted) reveals just how much of this bad law remains. By the most generous interpretation, the Court struck down only four of the 50 egregious policies, illustrating why Congress should immediately repeal the entire measure once and for all.  Among many other bad policies, the law:1.      Imposes $800 billion in tax increases, including no fewer than 12...

Former International Monetary Fund chief Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is facing a probe into his alleged involvement with a prostitution ring in France, and his wife have separated, a source said. Anne Sinclair, a wealthy heiress who recently relaunched her media career as a news editor at the Huffington Post's French edition, and Strauss-Kahn separated about a month ago and they are living in separate residences in Paris, said the source, who is close to Strauss-Kahn. The weekly magazine, Closer, earlier reported in its online edition that Sinclair threw Strauss-Kahn out of their home in central Paris. Strauss-Kahn is under investigation...

TheU.S. Supreme Court’s decision Thursday to uphold all but one part of the 2010 healthcare law produced some strong reactions. Supporters declared victory and opponents vowed to keep fighting. That much was to be expected. But Kentucky Republican Sen. Rand Paul’s rant against the high court’s ruling was a surprise of sorts. The physician-turned-elected-official appeared to suggest that the court needs a legal lesson or two. “Just because a couple people on the Supreme Court declare something to be ‘constitutional’ does not make it so. The whole thing remains unconstitutional,” Paul said in a statement. “While the court may have...

Former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi may have finally admitted that she and other Democrats lied about the individual mandate. Having just been backed into an inescapable corner by no less an eminence than the United States Supreme Court, which explicitly said that the only way for the individual mandate to pass constitutional muster would be to recast it as a tax, Pelosi may have finally realized she has to acknowledge that reality when questioned by the Daily Caller’s Nicholas Ballasy, while trying as much as possible to dodge the issue by branding any discussion of the mandate’s nature as “Washington...

British government officials said they are considering a program of having supermarkets use customer loyalty card data to offer tailored advice on better diets. David Halpern, the head of the Behavioral Insights Team, part of the prime minister's team known as the "nudge unit" -- which applies behavioral science insights to policy problems -- said supermarkets have more data than doctors have on their customers, and this information should be used for healthier eating, the Daily Telegraph reported. The program involves shoppers who buy large amounts of snack food, alcohol or unhealthy products being identified and offered advice on healthier...

LOS ANGELES - California was among the nation's first states to boldly endorse President Barack Obama's federal health care law after it was adopted two years ago. On Thursday, state officials were among those breathing the loudest sighs of relief when the Supreme Court declined to strike it down.

The article below about Modern Multicultural Sweden (and Denmark) was written for yesterday’s print edition of the Danish newspaper Ekstrabladet by Bent Falbert, the retired editor-in-chief of the paper. Steen sent us a pdf of the piece, so I don’t have a URL for the original. But our Danish correspondent Kepiblanc has kindly translated it: Sweden explodes Sweden is becoming a great nation. Her population recently passed 9.5 million. During the past seven years it grew by 500,000 persons, among them almost 400,000 immigrants, mainly Somalis, Afghans and Iraqis. The explosion goes on. A new Swedish ruling implies that...