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A top surrogate for President Obama insisted Friday that the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act was not a tax — despite the fact that the Supreme Court narrowly preserved the law on those grounds. "Don't believe the hype that the other side is selling," Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told reporters on a conference call. "This is a penalty," Patrick said. "It's about dealing with the freeloaders." The Supreme Court upheld the entirety of the health care law Thursday on narrow grounds, declaring that the individual mandate was legal under Congress' taxing powers. In the wake of the decision,...

www.FinancialSurvivalNetwork.com presents As everyone knows Obamacare was upheld today. The purported conservative Chief Justice, John Roberts, writing for the majority ruled the health insurance mandate was legal, in spite of arguments before the Court, stating that if the government can force you to buy insurance, they can force you to eat broccoli as well. Because after all, it is good for you. We've stated many times on the Financial Survival Network that any time you go to court, it's a "crap-shoot." And this time was no different. While we admit to being surprised, based upon the oral arguments presented, we're...

Hillsdale College Announces “Read The Declaration” Campaign Seeks Largest-Ever Nationwide Reading of the Declaration of Independence MEDIA CONTACT: Joe Cella 703-286-9677 jcella “at” hillsdale.edu Hillsdale, Michigan - Hillsdale College launched a national “Read the Declaration” campaign earlier this month which encourages Americans to celebrate Independence Day, July 4, by reading the entirety of the Declaration of Independence out loud with their friends and family. The College asks people to commit to this reading by visiting www.readthedeclaration.com. Those who do will also receive a free booklet containing the full text of the Declaration and the Constitution. The campaign has more than...

Thursday was destined to be an historic day for American liberty, and it was, though the new precedent is grim. The remarkable decision upholding the Affordable Care Act is shot through with confusion—the mandate that's really a tax, except when it isn't, and the government whose powers are limited and enumerated, except when they aren't. One thing is clear: This was a one-man show, and that man is John Roberts. Snip According to Chief Justice Roberts, the penalty is merely a tax on not owning health insurance, no different from "buying gasoline or earning income," and it thus complies with...

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Gay rights activists say actor Chuck Norris is a "fame-hungry has-been" with a double standard: Norris is accusing President Obama of trying to promote a gay agenda within the Boy Scouts of America, yet has not criticized Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney for saying gays would be welcomed within the scouting organization. Norris wrote an opinion piece this week blasting President Obama and portraying him as a puppet master working behind the scenes to create a "pro-gay Boy Scouts of America" and promote an increasingly pro-gay agenda. In response, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation issued a statement calling...

Esteemed Chief Justice John Roberts yesterday opened a new watering hole in the District of Corruption. This was a surprise move, according to close personal friends Eric Holder and Barack Obama. Un-named sources close to Roberts say that the original name had to be changed from Traitor John's Bar and Grill to Traitor John's Bar and Supreme Tax Court due an unexpected shortage of Federalist Steaks, Robert's personal favorite meal. Yesterday, the Government declared Federalists to be an Endangered Species, and thus effectively converted the Grill into the Supreme Tax Court that should last for at least two generations of...

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In the past twenty-four hours I have gotten a lot of heat from friends over my take on what John Roberts did. What’s done is done and I really could not get all worked up about it because Obamacare in the Courts has been such a distraction. Yet again the GOP expected a court to save them from something they did not like. The GOP has largely turned its nose up at the tea party, which is its salvation. The tea party movement provided the GOP with the energy, man power, and money to take back the House in 2010...

CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: Why didn't Congress call it a tax, then? SG VERRILLI: Well - CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS: You're telling me they thought of it as a tax, they defended it on the tax power. Why didn't they say it was a tax? SG VERRILLI: They might have thought, Your Honor, that calling it a penalty as they did would make it more effective in accomplishing its objective. But it is — in the Internal Revenue Code it is collected by the IRS on April 15th. I don't think this is a situation in which you can say - CHIEF...

After extensive research, I found a precedent in medieval English law that makes about as much sense as Chief Justice Robert's decision. I have taken the liberty of applying Robert's logic to that historical narrative for that case: CROWD: Obamacare! Obamacare! We've got Obamacare! VILLAGER #1: We have Obamacare, can we uphold it? CROWD: Uphold it! Uphold it! BEDEMIR: How do you know it’s Constitutional? VILLAGER #2: Because Pelosi said so?. BEDEMIR: Bring it forward. WITCH: I'm not a tax. I'm a mandate. BEDEMIR: But you are dressed as a tax. WITCH: They dressed me up like this. VILLAGER #2...

http://www.virginia.edu/uvatoday/newsRelease.php?id=18970 Faculty Experts React to Supreme Court Decision on Health Care June 28, 2012 — Several University of Virginia professors offered early reactions Thursday to the U.S. Supreme Court's 5-4 ruling upholding the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. The health care opinion comprised three Supreme Court cases: National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius; Florida, et al., v. Department of Health and Human Services; and Department of Health and Human Services v. Florida, et al. Richard Bonnie Law professor "The chief justice's pivotal opinion upheld the individual mandate as a valid exercise of Congress' taxing power. If the dissenters...

Leaders of the 17-nation eurozone announced on Friday a plan to rescue their failing banks with cash normally reserved for fledgling governments. When the “recapitalization” (i.e. bailout) plan was unveiled, markets responded very, very well. However, despite the positive market reaction, at least one veteran businessman thinks the deal is a big mistake. In fact, he thinks it’s only making things worse. According to Quantum Fund co-founder, free market advocate, author, and regular lecturer of finance at the Columbia University Graduate School of Business Jim Rogers, the EU’s decision to recapitalize its banks won’t do anything to fight off the...

COMPTON A 15-year-old boy will be arraigned Friday morning on murder charges in the fatal shooting of an infant boy while he lay in his father’s arms outside a South Los Angeles home. Police arrested Donald Ray Dokins Wednesday after he allegedly shot 1-year-old Angel Cortez, according to the L.A. County District Attorney’s Office. Mauro Cortez was reportedly standing outside of a house, holding his baby Angel, in the 105000 block of South Hikory Street on June 4, police reported. Cortez told police a teen boy rode up on a bicycle, fired several shots at him with a handgun and...

Just thinking out loud.... If Brian Terry had been a black man: - Would the MSM have ignored his murder? - Would the Congressional Black Caucus have walked out on the Contempt of Congress vote? - Would Holder have swept it into the DOJ dustbin and refused to give his family closure? - Would Obama have seen his 'brother' in Brian's face? - Would Carney have forgotten his name?

John Roberts is said to be quite concerned about the way in which history will view his tour of duty as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Well he doesn’t have to worry any longer, for his remarkable decision allowing Congress to impose a tax improperly and in a previously unconstitutional manner will secure his place in Court history for all time. Very few—including Obama himself—believed the scheme of presenting the individual mandate penalty as a tax would pass constitutional muster. The DOJ included a “the penalty is actually a tax” argument in an ObamaCare brief to the Supreme Court,...

A top surrogate for President Obama insisted Friday that the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act was not a tax — despite the fact that the Supreme Court narrowly preserved the law on those grounds. "Don't believe the hype that the other side is selling," Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick told reporters on a conference call. "This is a penalty," Patrick said. "It's about dealing with the freeloaders."

With so many assaults on the boundaries of governance and sovereignty in the news lately, reflecting on the career of writer and Hollywood director Nora Ephron, who died this week at 71, may seem off-topic. But upon reading through many glowing Ephron appreciations, I realize that in her work lies another broken boundary. It is a cultural one, and every bit as significant as lines on the map or in the Constitution. In a scene from her most famous movie, “When Harry Met Sally” (1989), Ephron brought to mainstream, predominantly female audiences the spectacle of a professional actress (Meg Ryan),...

China’s nuclear warhead stockpile is more than twice as large as U.S. intelligence estimates and could include as many as 3,000 warheads, according to a retired Russian general and former strategic forces commander. Col. Gen. Viktor Yesin, the former head of the Strategic Rocket Forces, revealed in a May 2012 article that based on estimated stocks of up to 70 tons of uranium and plutonium, Beijing has enough material for 3,600 nuclear warheads. Based on the fissile material, “there are probably 1,600 to 1,800 warheads in the Chinese nuclear arsenal,” Yesin stated. “According to assessments, 800 to 900 warheads...

On the same week that the U.S. House of Representatives found him in criminal contempt, the nation’s embattled Attorney General professed solidarity with a radical leftist Latino group, proudly celebrating its socialist mission of “uno para todos, todos para uno” (all for one and one for all). It wasn’t enough for Eric Holder to earn the accolade of being the nation’s first sitting Attorney General to be found in criminal contempt by Congress for stonewalling the investigation of a disastrous experiment conducted by his office. Known as Operation Fast and Furious, the project allowed Mexican drug traffickers to obtain U.S.-sold...