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As Scott noted a little while ago, the Obama administration has again pushed back the deadline for individual and small group policies to comply with Obamacare’s requirements. They are doing this, obviously, because they are trying to put off the political fallout when millions of Americans lose the coverage they had, and find that coverage under Obamacare will be more expensive and/or more limited. Which gives a special resonance to the story of Julie Boonstra. Mrs. Boonstra, as you likely recall, is a Michigan resident who suffers from leukemia. She filmed a television ad for Americans For Prosperity in which...

Whiskey Tango Foxtrot? It's getting worse. It's a malignancy. It's a vast right wing conspiracy. In what is one of most ghastly actions I can ever remember seeing from a member of Congress, Harry Reid took to the floor of the Senate and said cancer patients were faking it and called the Koch brothers "un-American." http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSJOLivL-NU "Despite all that good news, there's plenty of horror stories being told. All of them are untrue, but they're being told all over America," Reid says these cancer patients are liars. They're faking it. They're part of a conspiracy. Cancer victim Julie Boonstra, who...

Apparently it's not enough to use the IRS and FCC to shut down the opposition. What does an aspiring democrat Senator wannabe do when he doesn't like an opposition TV ad? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kpjyr1x7mC0Attack the woman cancer victim in the ad, and then threaten to take the station off the air. While Julie Boonstra of Dexter, Mich., struggles to survive leukemia, she now also has to cope with being called a liar by the Democrat who wants to be her next senator. And the campaign of Rep. Gary Peters is also going after television stations airing ads in which her story is...