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<p>I have always wondered how it felt to be a committed Communist in the former Soviet Union, when the system collapsed and the Berlin Wall fell.</p> <p>Now I know.</p> <p>Yesterday, the Supreme Court of the United States of America tore up the social contract between America and her citizens. They concluded that it was legal and Constitutional to force a citizen to buy a government-sanctioned product or service.</p>

It seems that courts today have strayed from actually looking at, and interpreting, the law. Court rulings are made more on political leanings. You have conservative court officers who issue rulings based on conservatism and liberal court officers who rule based on their liberalism. When a case comes before an upper court (Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, State Supreme Court, U.S. Supreme Court) one can guess which judges or justices will rule which direction based on their personal political feelings. To heck with the Constitution, or the law as passed. Thus, the courts have become no different than a governing...

Do Americans – do you -- really understand the gravity of what happened in the Supreme Court yesterday? Do you have any idea at all how the power of the Imperial Federal Government of the United States has been exponentially increased? Answer? No, you probably don’t. You really can’t be faulted for that, I guess. After all, our wonderful government school system was designed to educate you, but only to the point that you don’t become a threat to your political rulers. The American people are a product of those schools, and the American people are, by and large, acting...

Roberts first concluded that the individual mandate was not a tax when it came to jurisdictional issues under the Anti-Injunction Act (thereby allowing the court to decide the case). But, like the Decepticon villains in a "Transformer" movie, the mandate could convert into a tax for constitutional authority purposes. This flew in the face of the Affordable Care Act's history and language. President Obama himself once insisted the law didn't impose a tax.

This article pretty much sums up the left's view on the future of Obamacare. Here is the key Excerpt: "Scrapping the law, in other words, should be a pretty easy lift for Republicans—if they win the election. But if they lose, as provisions of the law roll out during Obama’s second term, they’re likely to find that it’s very difficult to take popular benefits away from people who already have them. By declining to do Republican politicians’ work for them, in other words, John Roberts just made 2012 a very consequential election."

As a junior senator, Barack Obama voted against John Roberts' nomination to the Supreme Court, fearing he would favor the powerful over the weak.

My fellow citizens, Indeed we know that the ruling opinion of our highest court yesterday has compelled us to examine, among many things (from tax law, to govt. coercion of citizens to act, to enumerated powers, to the role of the judiciary et cetera). It is my opinion that the Chief Justice of the United States stepped outside the bounds of his sworn oath to rule on Constitutionality of cases presented and adopted the (unconstitutional) role of re-writing the statute entirely; as rightly stated in the Dissent of Justice Kennedy. Despite our anger (righteous indignation in my view), great disappointment...

Isn't there some sort of legal precedent that taxes have to be applied equally? Does yesterday's ruling invalidate the "waivers"?

It appears that We-the-People, the US Constitution and the USA are now sunk. CJ Roberts has now shown his true stripes as a leftist. In order to do away with the true argument that the Congressional ruling establishing ObamaCare would be charged as a fee for being born and living in the USA, Roberts changed ObamaCare to a tax—which Obama had argued previously and intensely stated was NOT a tax—in order to mollify and please his true leader. However, during the oral arguments, Obama’s lawyers ruled it IS a tax. In what I view as an act of brazen disregard...

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Doug O’Neill has been the face of horse racing for the better part of two months... On this day, O’Neill was just a regular horseplayer all excited about cashing a Kentucky Derby future-book ticket. Okay, so he wasn’t a typical bettor, as he was holding the only 200-1 ticket on I’ll Have Another bought at the Buffalo Bill’s race book, but since he was clean-shaven, he could have walked in incognito if the three Vegas sports reporters waiting for him hadn’t been tipped off to his arrival. O’Neill’s $100 ticket was bought at 4:48 p.m. Pacific on Feb. 3, the...

Conservatives and libertarians are despondent today, bemoaning the perfidy of Chief Justice Roberts in his failure to join four other justices who were willing to strike down the entire monstrosity we call Obamacare. It is, indeed, a hard bullet to chew. Perhaps we can console ourselves by entertaining thoughts about some worthy aims this newfound strange and wonderful to overcome all other constitutional hurdles to a police by just calling something a tax! I'll start with two conservative objectives that could be advanced: Gun ownership. Numerous studies have shown that widespread gun ownership deters crime. Those who don't own guns...

This is a huge story: On Wednesday, Barclays won the race to reach a deal with U.S. and British regulators, beating UBS, which was reportedly the first bank to begin cooperating with international antitrust authorities. Barclays agreed to pay at least $450 million to resolve government investigations of manipulation of Libor and the Euro interbank offered rate (or Euribor): $200 million to the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission, $160 million to the criminal division of the U.S. Department of Justice and $92.8 million to Britain's Financial Services Authority.I wrote about the Libor investigation in the current issue of Rolling Stone,...

It has traditionally been liberals, not conservatives, who have looked to the courts to implement their policy preferences. Whether it was racial and sex preferences, abortion, gay marriage, capital punishment or the "rights" of illegal aliens, liberals have attempted to move the country left by judicial fiat. Judges, after all, are highly educated elites. The political views of people with advanced degrees tend to be liberal. It's far easier to seduce a few robed lawyers to issue congenial rulings than it is to undertake the hard and lengthy work of persuading millions of voters to elect people who agree with...

U.S. consumer spending was flat in May for the first time in five months as Americans eased off on vehicle purchases amid tepid wage growth, but subsiding inflation pressures should keep demand supported. The Commerce Department said on Friday April's consumer spending was revised down to show only a 0.1 percent rise instead of the previously reported 0.3 percent gain.

John Roberts is not a “traitor to his philosophy.” He is not a liberal. He is, above all else, a very strict originalist, and the Chief Justice of a Court that is acutely aware – and wary – of its role in politics. Understand that his opinion, though certainly not ideal for the Right, contains more good news for conservatives in its pages than it does on its face. So let’s take a look at his surprising opinion – the controlling opinion, as it’s called, which sets precedent and “say[s] what the law is,” as Marshall said so long ago.The...

Have any of you heard of VOTER homes before? I suppose it is technically legal but....

So the seemingly unexplainable happened yesterday, the US Supreme Court upheld Obamacare. Republicans have promised an immediate repeal should they sweep the elections come November, but that's not a slam dunk. It should be, but we know their track record. If the Republicans don't sweep both Houses of Congress and the White House (including enough votes to avoid a fillibuster in the Senate), what happens next? What can we expect to see with the implementation of this law? Little things, big things...describe it here. I think that new identification will be coming down the road ASAP. This won't be in...

Then the news will be Romney raises X million within 24 hours of ruling. This should grab some attention, particularly wind sock politicians.

  Friday, June 29 Is Tweet Like An Alien Day Perhaps more marketing, than Science, it still may be your one shot to make "contact". Between 8 p.m. EDT Friday (June 29) and 3 a.m. EDT Saturday (June 30) Tweets tagged with the hashtag #ChasingUFOs will be combined into a single message and beamed in the direction of the so called "Wow" signal. It's timed to coincide with a new National Geographic series, "Chasing UFOs."They'll be transmitted on Aug. 15th. Heck, it isn't like it costs anything. I think I'l go with, Vote Romney. Because, well you never know. And there's...