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The U.S. Constitution vests the legislative, executive, and judicial powers in separate branches of the government that are supposed to police each other. But what if one of those branches violates the law in a manner that personally benefits the members of another branch? That’s what has been happening since the day ObamaCare became law in 2010. For more than five years, the executive branch has been issuing illegal subsidies that personally benefit the most powerful interest group in the nation’s capital: members of Congress and their staffs. When congressional Democrats passed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA),...

The following is a reprint of an article originally published on Dec. 23, 2009. In the nights before Christmas in 2009, the Obamacare health care bill was beginning to work its way through Congress. This is a look back at that process. It must be Christmas with all the presents floating around. The health care bill just cleared its first hurdle through the Senate and the amount of special favors and outright bribes for powerful senators and swing states is (expectedly) outrageous. The most egregious are as follows: The "Cornhusker Kickback" - For Sen. Ben Nelson, D-Neb., "a provision exempting...