Arguments by backers of President Obama's health care proposals that the U.S. Congress has the constitutional authority to mandate that individual Americans purchase health insurance through the 16th Amendment to the Constitution, which permits the federal income tax, are incorrect ...
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Dan Rather, From Buckwheats to Watermelons by Bob Parks (bio) Dan Rather, the former CBS newsreader now relegated to HDNet, isn't impressed with President Obama's ability to sell his policies to Congress. Rather recently told MSNBC's Chris Matthews that Obama ...
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  Health Care Fight Defines Parties, Ideologies by R. Dozier Gray (bio) It's no longer time to be dancing on the head of a needle. That's what talk radio host Mark Levin said in the wake of the passage of ...
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Yes, on July 25, 2002, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY) voted to agree to the conference report for the Corporate and Auditing Accountability and Responsibility Act, better known as Sarbanes-Oxley. If you just came back from a deserted island, Rep. Rangel ...
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Washington, D.C.:  The NAACP’s decision to bestow an Image Award on radical activist and former Obama Administration official Van Jones is drawing a stern rebuke from Mychal Massie, chairman of the Project 21 black leadership network. "I understand that it's ...
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Project 21 chairman Mychal Massie criticized the NAACP for giving an Image Award to Van Jones — the former Obama Administration “green jobs czar” who was thrown under the bus by the White House last September. Massie gave a stern ...
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In an article by Ed Carson that includes embedded video of our Tom Borelli, Investors Business Daily's "Capital Hill" Politics and markets blog is reporting that President Obama will fail to get his climate legislation adopted by the Senate this ...
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Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on the differences between conservatives and the White House on the way to improve our health care system: Hat tip: RealClearPolitics. E-mail comments to [email protected] | Subscribe to feed. | Follow the National Center for Public ...
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At yesterday's "Health Care Summit," President Obama frequently expressed opposition to the use of talking points during the conversation. In our biz, that is to say, the non-political public policy arena of the think-tank world, "talking points" are simply a ...
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President Obama's new health care plan will all but guarantee the elimination of private insurance and lead to a single payer government-run health care system, says a new report, "White House Health Care Plan Contains Back Door to a Public ...
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