Fun With ObamaCare Exchanges: Colorado Version
Colorado’s exchange, Connect For Health Colorado, has a function that allows you to shop for policies without first setting up an account. To see it, go here and then select “Find a Plan.” I gave it a test run by entering a date-of-birth in 1984—i.e., age 29—, 1 person to ...
Obama Closes Grand Canyon, Proves His Administration Doesn’t Care About the Little Guy
The Grand Canyon is closed. Not really, but the federal government has cut off access to this grand work of nature. It's part of a pressure campaign to convince the American people that it really can't do without a bloated federal government. Unfortunately for President Obama's propaganda efforts, with 83% ...
Fun With ObamaCare Exchanges: D.C. Version
I haven’t yet tried setting up an account on the Washington, D.C. exchange, but I have tried its calculator function. A few days before the D.C. exchange opened, Reuters reported that it would “be unable to calculate the size of federal subsidies.” And, guess what? It can’t. Or, more accurately, ...
No Jobs Report Doesn’t Mean Obama Can Hide Economic Decline
Under normal circumstances, the first Friday morning of every month is when the federal Bureau of Labor Statistics releases its report on the previous month’s employment statistics. But it’s far from normal circumstances right now in Washington, D.C. Due to President Obama’s refusal to negotiate with those who seeking reform ...
Fun With ObamaCare Exchanges: Federal Version, Pt 2
Sigh. I tried to sign in to the Federal Exchange again and what should appear but this now almost iconic webpage: After about 20 minutes, the log-in page came up. I put in my username and password, which yielded this result: I doubt that I entered the wrong information, but ...
Fun With ObamaCare Exchanges: California Version
Thanks to a twitter exchange, I decide to check out the shop/comparison tool at the Covered California site (yes, it does work!) I entered in the following information: age 29, 1 person in the household, $40,000 annual income, zip code 92618 (Los Angeles area). These were the cheapest plans: So ...
Is it the Onion… or is it Slate?
Sometimes the left approaches satire in its ongoing propaganda campaign to make the partial government shutdown seem worse than it is. Take Amanda Marcotte's October 1 Slate article "Government shutdown: From WIC to the panda cam, seven ways the shutdown will hit women hardest," no doubt a continuation of the ...
Black Activists Support Former BET CEO’s Comments Against Obama Class Warfare
Washington, D.C. - Members of the Project 21 black leadership network are supporting comments made by black businessman Robert Johnson, who took President Obama to task this past weekend for using class warfare to promote his policy agenda. "When it comes to soliciting support for his policies, President Obama's class ...
Anti-Chemical Activists Target French in Battle Against BPA
What do anti-chemical activists do when they can’t persuade the U.S., the E.U., and other government bodies to ban a safe chemical they’ve been targeting for years? They try France. And the ploy may work. But in a piece for the influential European news site, Euractiv, I caution against a ...
Another Day, Another Hogberg Interview on Fox News
For the third straight day, “Special Report” on the Fox News Channel featured the National Center’s Dr. David Hogberg on the issue of ObamaCare implementation difficulties and rising costs to consumers. In this segment that aired on 10/2/13, Dr. Hogberg points out that young people — the financial bedrock of ...
Free-Market Proponents Laud Sears for Taking a Stance Against Trade Association’s “Sustainability” Folly
National Center for Public Policy Research Urges Sears CEO Edward Lampert - Who Stated that America is Already "Overregulated" - to Resist Further Pressure from Zealous Environmentalists Hoffman Estates, IL / Washington, D.C. - Policy experts with the National Center for Public Policy Research are praising Sears CEO Edward Lampert ...
Dr. Hogberg on Fox News Channel… Again
For the second day in a row, Dr. David Hogberg’s interview with Fox News Channel correspondent Jim Angle was featured on the network’s “Special Report” program. Yesterday, the interview was featured in the program’s lead story. This time, Angle picked up and used Dr. Hogberg’s term of “death spiral” to ...
Nanny State Failure in Action in the Big Apple
It is too late to blame obesity on global warming? New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg will be infamously remembered for his efforts to impose many nanny-state policies on those he governed, such as his successful ban on trans fats from the city’s restaurants and his unsuccessful crusade against the ...
The Smithsonian Has a Billion Dollars, So Why Is It Closed?
All the Smithsonian Museums are closed due to the government shutdown... What a fraud. We should call on everyone to stop donating to the Smithsonian. Yes, it gets a substantial amount of funding from the federal government. But it also got nearly $150 million last year from other sources and ...
We Want Health Insurance! When Do We Want It? Next Week!
Yesterday this twitter exchange occurred between the Washington Examiner’s Phil Klein and New York Magazine’s Jonathan Chait: Is the difficulty logging in due to loads of people who want insurance? Megan McArdle has some doubts. For the sake of argument, though, let’s assume that it is related to “pent-up consumer ...
Fun With ObamaCare Exchanges: Federal Version
Well, after numerous attempts I finally managed to create an account at the Federal Exchange. I finally answered all of the security questions, it said my account was finished, and so I hit the “continue” button. YAY!!!!….uh-oh: Sigh. So, I then returned to the website, waited, and then tried to ...
Western Churches Neglect Causes of Radical Islam’s Rise In Africa, by Archbishop Council Nedd II
How did radical Islam become a legitimate threat in sub-Saharan Africa? Should we care? Perhaps, because one possible reason stretches beyond the African continent. It may eminate from our own houses of worship. After the recent shopping mall attack in Nairobi, Kenya by the Muslim terrorist group Al Shabaab, counterterrorism ...
ObamaCare: Academia vs. the Real World, by Christopher Arps
As ObamaCare clears a major hurdle in its implementation and begins enrolling individuals into the new entitlement, it's interesting to see how much has been delayed, dropped or hastily fixed (or has remained broken, in the case of some insurance exchanges) at this late date. And, with lawmakers continuing to ...
It’s Time for President Obama to Do Something that Works for the Economy, by Derryck Green
Dear Mr. President: With all due respect, your economic stewardship has been a nightmare. Whether our nation's lingering peril comes from your misunderstanding of basic economic principles, your rigid and religious-like devotion to political progressivism or because the economy simply isn't your priority, credit and fault nonetheless begins and ends ...
Are Black Americans Being Sold Off? by Stacy Swimp
Slavery didn't suddenly begin with Europeans carting Africans en masse to the Americas. Slavery has a long and evil history that has touched almost the entire planet at one point or another. Depending on how one looks at it, the buying and selling of people hasn't really ever stopped. It ...
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