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“Bare-bones” employer health insurance plans coming thanks to #ObamaCare

Posted by: ST on May 20, 2013 at 7:46 pm » 5 Comments

The Wall Street Journal reports on what National Review Online’s Veronique de Rugy calls one more in the law of ”unintended consequences” to the implementation of our President’s “signature law” – ObamaCare (via Memeorandum -bolded emphasis added by me): Employers are increasingly recognizing they may be able to avoid certain penalties under the federal health law by offering [...]

 

#IRS scandal: Granting tax-exempt status to pro-life groups *if* they agree not to protest Planned Parenthood

Posted by: Phineas on May 15, 2013 at 5:51 pm » 6 Comments

**Posted by Phineas But they’re absolutely, totally, without a doubt non-political. And don’t you dare say otherwise, wingnut! IRS officials refused to grant tax exempt status two pro-life organizations because of their position on the abortion issue, according to a non-profit law firm, which said that one group was pressured not to protest a pro-choice organization [...]

 

The Obamacare Chronicles: 129 laid off from Missouri hospital due to wonderful new health bill

Posted by: Phineas on May 15, 2013 at 1:01 pm » 3 Comments

**Posted by Phineas At this point, there’s not much we can do about it, folks. Losing a Supreme Court decision and the 2012 election guarantees that Obamacare will go into full effect on January 1st, 2014 – Happy New Year! All we can do for now is observe and take note of the pain (some of [...]

 

Charlotte abortion clinic w/ history of safety issues set to re-open Wednesday

Posted by: ST on May 14, 2013 at 10:11 pm » 2 Comments

In light of the recent events surrounding the Kermit Gosnell trial, I found this interesting: For the second time in six years, a southeast Charlotte abortion clinic has reopened a short time after the state forced it to shut down because of safety issues, most recently the improper administration of a drug that terminates pregnancies. [...]

 

#Gosnell: Guilty. Should he get the death penalty?

Posted by: ST on May 13, 2013 at 8:23 pm » 10 Comments

At last, justice for some of the many babies “Dr.” Gosnell murdered – and for his adult victim as well. Via Life News: The jury in the murder trial of abortion practitioner Kermit Gosnell returned a verdict and found him guilty on three of the four first-degree murder charges he faced. Gosnell was found guilty [...]

 

#Scandalpalooza: #Benghazi cover up, IRS targeting, HHS shake downs, AP records …

Posted by: ST on May 13, 2013 at 6:46 pm » 5 Comments

The White House is running out of excuses and places to hide from probing conservative journalists and even some mainstream media reporters after a wave of embarrassing but predictable scandals have broken wide open in the last week.  Here they are (so far): 1) Benghazi: Accusations of a cover-up have been being made since the [...]

 

Oh, no. This won’t set off conservative and libertarian alarm bells at all.

Posted by: Phineas on May 11, 2013 at 9:31 pm » 7 Comments

**Posted by Phineas I mean, what’s so threatening about a biometric database of all adult Americans being in the immigration bill, citizen? The immigration reform measure the Senate began debating yesterday would create a national biometric database of virtually every adult in the U.S., in what privacy groups fear could be the first step to a ubiquitous [...]

 

3D printed guns scare progressives, so of course they want to ban them

Posted by: Phineas on May 7, 2013 at 1:01 pm » 4 Comments

**Posted by Phineas Because the future is frightening. First, a BBC news video to show you what the fuss is all about: The Telegraph describes it thus: Instructions for making The Liberator, a plastic handgun that could escape detection by conventional airport security, were today made freely available to download from the internet by anti-government [...]

 

Blue Cross Blue Shield: “Unusually large rate increases” ahead as a result of #ObamaCare

Posted by: ST on May 7, 2013 at 10:12 am » 6 Comments

Via the Raleigh News and Observer (bolded emphasis added by me): In a signpost pointing to health insurance changes under the nation’s new health care law, North Carolina’s largest insurer has warned of steep rate increases for customers who have typically paid below-average premiums. A third of Blue Cross and Blue Shield’s customers who buy [...]

 

House Minority Pelosi leader “prays” Hillary Clinton will run for President in 2016

Posted by: ST on May 3, 2013 at 10:32 am » 12 Comments

Ugh: Nancy Pelosi is reaching out to a higher power to get Hillary Clinton to run in 2016. “I pray that Hillary Clinton decides to run for president of the United States,” Pelosi (D-Calif.), the House Minority leader, said during a public appearance in Little Rock, Ark., according to The Arkansas Democrat-Gazette. “Nobody has been first lady [...]