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The new Obamacare legislation that was forced on unwilling Americans this week specifically mandates that we all purchase health insurance. That is, unless you don’t believe in that sort of thing. That’s right, the current health care bill contains a clause which exempts certain individuals form the requirements and penalties set forth in it. ” EXEMPTIONS FROM INDIVIDUAL RESPONSIBILITY REQUIREMENTS. —In the case of an individual who is seeking an exemption certificate under section 1311(d)(4)(H) from any requirement or penalty imposed by section 5000A, the following information: In the case of an individual seeking exemption based on the individual’s status...

  It is one thing to overturn ObamaCare should we be fortunate enough to A) Have an election (yeah, you heard me), B) Get a GOP President, C) Get a CONSERVATIVE House that will hold Boehner accountable as Speaker to not cave as he did on the budget ceiling debate, and D) get at least 51 votes in the Senate.But how do we rectify the insane “precedent” set out by Roberts that the judiciary has the right to reclassify – even create – a “tax” that was never written in the original law?   Or that you can now be “taxed”...

The majority decision distorts the Constitution to uphold ObamaCare. As bad as ObamaCare is, the decision transcends ObamaCare most perniciously because it expands the power of the Congress to interfere in countless other ways as yet unknown in how we live our lives.John Turley today noted that having decided that the ObamaCare individual mandate is outside the authority of the Congress under the Commerce Clause, the Supreme Court found the requisite authority in the congressional authority to tax. But no sooner had Roberts proclaimed his love for federalism than he effectively killed it. Roberts held that the individual mandate still...

At a time in life when most people are looking forward to retirement, Lawrence B. Bone is heading off to war. The 64-year-old orthopedic surgeon has joined the Army Reserve and leaves for Afghanistan in July.

As fiscal conservatives we have morally and correctly attacked Obama on the record deficits that have now surpassed George W Bush’s record deficits of the time. Will a Present Mitt Romney balance the budget? And if he doesn’t, should we remain quite?

While Roberts has a point that we should elect better politicians, I would argue that it is, in fact, the Court's job to protect us from time to time; framing it as protecting us from ourselves rather than from those we elect is a distinction without a difference as the members of the Court swear, as do other elected federal officials, to support and defend the Constitution, not the people.

(CNSNews.com) – The White House said Friday that the Obamacare insurance mandate tax is a penalty for not having insurance – a statement that directly contradicts what the Supreme Court ruled Thursday. According to press reports, White House spokesman Jay Carney told reporters aboard Air Force One that the penalty was not a tax but a penalty. In a 5-4 ruling issued just one day before, Chief Justice John Roberts stated that the mandate was not a penalty and was, in fact, a tax. “You can call it what you want, but it is affecting one percent of the population....

In a few months, Americans will cast their ballots and make a choice. Do we continue on a path of rising, out of control health care costs? Do we continue with massive tax increases to fund a new two trillion dollar program? Do we continue stifling our economy with a growing government that discourages hiring? Or do we chart a new course and change directions. The Supreme Court may have made their decision, but the American people haven't. Day one. Job one. Repeal Obamacare

BEGIN TRANSCRIPT RUSH: I want to just start out here. I know it's the -- (interruption) what? Snerdley is asking me if there's any glimmer of hope. Well, of course. I'm confining myself to the ruling. Yeah, there's hope. It's game on. It's like I said yesterday, it is time to wrap this around Obama's head as tightly as we can. We've got to tell everybody all over again what this is because the AP is out there -- let me find it. Yeah, Associated Press. They have an article: "10 Things to Know for Friday," today. "What the health...

It's Becoming Clear What Will Save The US Economy In 2012 Joe Weisenthal Jun. 29, 2012, 2:01 PM 2012 really is shaping up a lot like 2011 did. Both started out strong (economically and market-wise). And then both had swoons where everyone started talking about a double dip. But the US economy has a trump card: There are huge secular trends that are mostly impervious to these medium-term swings. Last year the big, secular uptrend was the car industry, which had a monster summer and fall. Here's a chart of annualized monthly motor vehicle sales. You can see how they...

Coca Cola and union members from Teamster Local 1035 have reached an agreement putting an end to a six-week strike. Union workers voted and passed a six-year agreement that includes annual wage increases and additional company contributions to employee retirement plans. The agreement also provides shared responsibility for healthcare costs through employee contributions, Coca Cola said in a statement released Thursday night. Workers will be returning back to the job on Monday morning.

The Navy’s robotic fighter just got one step closer to earning its wings. The X-47B, an unmanned stealth attack jet, has completed the first major phase of flight testing on its way to become the first aircraft to be able to land and take off from the deck of an aircraft carrier –completely autonomously. After its first successful flight on February 4, 2011 at Edwards Air Force Base – a short, 29 minute jaunt to 5,000 feet – the X-47B has now climbed to as much as 15,000 feet. The testing, which concluded on May 15, ran the jet through...

[Lift up your feet. It is getting deep :] Friend -- I'd love to take a moment to savor yesterday's Supreme Court decision, but we don't have time. Already, Mitt Romney and Republicans are out with outright falsehoods about Obamacare -- their favorite distortion being that this is somehow a broad tax on the middle class. In reality, this is all about personal responsibility -- and the "tax" they are trying to scare everyone about is actually a penalty for the 1 percent of people who can afford insurance but still choose not to buy it, leaving the rest of...

Either say "long live the federal government" or die, Mexican government officials hectored Catholics in the early twentieth century, as depicted in the movie, For Greater Glory, an account of the Christian resistance to this persecution known as the "Cristeros war." Is Mexico's past America's future? After four years of in-your-face secularism from Barack Obama, it is not an idle question. "Darn tooting," Barack Obama said to militant feminists when they asked him, after the passage of the "Affordable Care Act," if he was going to force Christians to pay for the contraceptives, sterilizations, and abortifacients of their employees. Under...

"Conservatives won a substantial victory on Thursday. The physics of American politics - actions provoking reactions - continues to move the crucial debate about the nature of the American regime, toward conservativism. Chief Justice Roberts has served this cause."

I posted the same idea some weeks ago. There is a Democrat convention to renominate Precious Dictator in Early September. What if we all just showed up in our Gadsden T shirts? We can't get permits to gather, and we probably can't carry signs--legally--but we can fill the sidewalks and we can shout.

Archaeological research carried out at the Neolithic site of La Draga, near the lake of Banyoles, has yielded the discovery of an item which is unique in the western Mediterranean and Europe. The item is a bow which appeared in a context dating from the period between 5400-5200 BCE, corresponding to the earliest period of settlement. It is a unique item given that it is the first bow to be found in tact at the site. According to its date, it can be considered chronologically the most ancient bow of the Neolithic period found in Europe. The study will permit...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NNCyEC9r_mk&feature=youtube_gdata The part I found interesting is that Schiff claims that the SC said that there's no enforcement mechanism for the individual mandate. That seems impossible to me does anyone know if that's correct or what exactly Schiff was talking about?

FARMINGTON, Pa. (AP) -- U.S. Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts joked that he'll spend some time on an "impregnable island fortress" now that the court has ended a session that featured him casting the decisive vote to uphold President Barack Obama's health care law.

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