Reaction from Wall Street Journal’s Steve Moore A new and independent analysis of ObamaCare warns of a ticking time bomb, predicting a second wave of 50 million to 100 million insurance policy cancellations next fall — right before the mid-term elections. The next round of cancellations and premium hikes is expected to hit employees, particularly of small businesses. While the administration has tried to downplay the cancellation notices hitting policyholders on the individual market by noting they represent a relatively small fraction of the population, the swath of people who will be affected by the shakeup in employer-sponsored coverage […]
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ANALYSIS: 50 to 100 million insurance cancellations coming
November 20, 2013 by
A State with No Republicans
November 20, 2013 by
A State with No Republicans â âUTOPIAâ Makes you want to move there, doesnât it? A wonderful state with ZERO Republicans â none holding government offices. Itâs the State of Illinois. Some interesting data on the âstateâ of IllinoisâŚ. There are more people on welfare in Illinois, than there are people working. Chicago pays the […]
Why the Communists Killed Kennedy
November 20, 2013 by
The mediaâs love affair with Fidel Castro apparently outweighs their love for President John F. Kennedy and his Camelot era. Otherwise, the communist role in the Kennedy assassination would be prominently noted during the 50th anniversary coverage of the JFK assassination. Assassin Lee Harvey Oswald was a communist member of the pro-Castro Fair Play for Cuba […]
‘Uh oh!’: Obamacare website CRASHES as HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius holds Florida photo-op
November 20, 2013 by
Kathleen Sebelius, the secretary of Health and Human Services and the White House’s chief Obamacare cheerleader, was left ashen-faced during a photo-op on Tuesday when volunteers helping Floridians use healthcare.gov were faced with a website that didn’t work. While reporters trailed her during a tour of a Miami hospital, one noticed that the site was […]
Obama the Dictator
November 20, 2013 by
President Barack Obama says he can âfixâ the millions of canceled health insurance plans with an administrative change. Heâs claiming more executive power â power for himself â than the Constitution allows and playing fast and loose with the truth. The culprit behind the cancellations is not administrative regulation, as Obama asserts; itâs Section 2702 […]
N.J. Senate approves bill granting in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants
November 20, 2013 by
State Sen. Teresa Ruiz (D-Essex) listens as the senate debates bill (S2479), which would offer in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants who grew up in New Jersey. (Patti Sapone/The Star Ledger) TRENTON â A bill to offer in-state tuition to undocumented immigrants who grew up in New Jersey is continuing its progress […]
SURVEILLANCE
November 20, 2013 by
The surveillance goes even further than Snowden has thus far disclosed. Over the years, I have accumulated considerable information about all the ways surveillance is conducted — by government, military, and the private sector. Just the names and acronyms alone would fills a couple pages. Amongst these is the following. Intel’s CPUs now contain a second, […]
Google agrees to pay states $17 million in browser privacy settlement
November 20, 2013 by
Google has entered into a $17 million settlement with 37 states and the District of Columbia after the company was found to circumvent privacy settings in Apple’s Safari browser. Between 2011 and 2012, Google secretly stored web tracking cookies in Safari, overriding Apple’s default settings that forbid third-party cookies from being installed. “By tracking […]
Parents’ Worst Common Core Fears Materialize
November 19, 2013 by
Sachem High School East, Long Island / Credit: Ursula MooreHide More image problems for Common Core State Standards. On Long Island earlier this month a hacker apparently was able to access records kept at the Sachem School District offices and leak personal student data to a web forum. The records included medical and disciplinary reports. […]
Homeschool group, Catholic education watchdog among those concerned by Common Core standards
November 19, 2013 by
Once deemed inevitable, the new national âCommon Coreâ education standards are being challenged by grassroots pressure in states across the country amid concerns that the standards are insufficiently rigorous and represent a troubling overreach by the federal government. In Tennessee, one group of citizens fighting the standards are parents who home-school their children. According to […]
EPA âShuts Downâ Lead Refiners: Administrationâs Back Door to âDisarmâ the People
November 19, 2013 by
It seems virtually every federal government agency, at least under this president, is a rogue agency. Thatâs not quite accurate. You see, when one hears the word rogue, it conjures up thoughts of abandoning oneâs directive. âOh him â he went rogue. We can no longer control himâ. That type of thing. So thatâs not […]
Yes, Obama Lied About Keeping Your Insurance, And Here Is Why It Matters
November 19, 2013 by
If you asked my wife if she had ever lied to me, she would probably say, ‘no.’ And for the issues that really matter she is right: My wife has never intentionally told me something important that she knew wasn’t true. But, technically, in the course of a almost 15-year relationship, she has told some minor fibs. For example, for my 30th birthday we agreed to have a quiet diner with a few friends at a resteraunt in downtown DC. But on the day of the dinner, one of those friends, who lived near my office at the time, […]
Declassified Documents Reveal Government Spying on Patriots as a Threat
November 19, 2013 by
Declassified documents provided by the Obama administration dictate how the National Security Agency (NSA) has been given the green light by the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) to monitor Americans – dating back to the Bush administration . Much of the information has been redacted, yet there is still a clear path of how the Bush administration created surveillance programs without judicial oversight which conducted operations outside of legal authority. Suspects of terrorism had their entire lives under surveillance. NSA-Work-Files-600×337 James Clapper, director of National Intelligence (NI) explained that Obama told him to “make public as much information as […]
Gitmo good life: U.S. spends millions on landscaping, art classes for terror detainees
November 19, 2013 by
Bookworms: Guantanamo detainees are given reading material as they learn about horticulture, nutrition, various art techniques and other skills as part of a $5 million U.S. program. (Associated Press) Thanks to a multimillion-dollar federal contract, Guantanamo Bay prisoners can enroll in seminars to learn all about basic landscaping and pruning, calligraphy and Microsoft PowerPoint while the U.S. figures out what to do with them. Prisoners also can get in touch with their artistic sides. “At a minimum, the art seminar shall include water color painting, charcoal sketching, Arabic calligraphy, acrylic painting and pastel painting,” contract records reviewed by The […]
White House, HHS warned about ObamaCare website in March, documents show
November 19, 2013 by
ocaresitenew12.jpg The Obama administration was warned as early as March about potential risks with the implementation of HealthCare.gov, according to documents released by the House Energy and Commerce Committee Monday night. Key administration officials at the White House and Department of Health and Human Services received briefings this past spring from McKinsey & Co., a private consulting firm that reviewed more than 200 documents and conducted interviews with HHS staff to identify potential problems before the Oct. 1 rollout. A report prepared by McKinsey in late March discussed several issues that could hamper the implementation of ObamaCare, including […]
Obama Omitting âGodâ in Gettysburg Address not Surprising
November 19, 2013 by
Not only did President Obama snub the ceremony for the 150th anniversary of the Gettysburg Address today, he ignored and omitted the words âunder Godâ in his rendition of President Lincolnâs Gettysburg Address, filmed by documentary filmmaker Ken Burns. After five years of tearing down religious liberty, it is neither surprising nor unexpected that President […]
Introducing Trail Life USA
November 19, 2013 by
More than 1,200 former Scoutmasters, Eagle Scouts, parents, church leaders and former Boy Scout of America (BSA) professionals gathered tonight for the inaugural Leadership Convention of a youth character development organization in Nashville. The conventionâs theme was âHonoring the Legacy ⌠Raising the Standard.â Forty-four (44) states were represented, including Alaska and Hawaii. The name […]
OBAMACARE: THE FIX IS IN!
November 19, 2013 by
In August 2009 I read and analyzed the 1100 pages of HR 3200 that was the original version of the Affordable Care Act. I wrote an article about the proposed legislation that became the first one posted on this blog. That article has recently resurfaced several times and gone viral as an email. Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Of […]
Who is the real victim of harassment?
November 18, 2013 by
Miami-Dade civil rights complaint against public school whistle-blower dismissed Those who blow the whistle and interrupt the status quo are either met with respect or hostility from others.  In the case of Cleveland âCleveâ Roberts III, the PBS Coach at Miami Norland Senior High School and Trevor Colestock, Library Media Specialist at Miami Norland SHS and a […]
Students suffer ObamaCare sticker shock as premiums soar, plans get cut
November 18, 2013 by
bowiestate.jpg While millions of Americans are watching their individual polices get canceled due to ObamaCare regulations, the new health care rules are also having a major impact on college campuses. For decades, universities and colleges have offered students bare-bones policies. But because of the Affordable Care Act, those policies no longer cut it – and universities are forced to decide whether to offer significantly higher-cost plans or cancel coverage altogether. The new rules affect a broad swath of American schools, especially the small ones. At Bowie State University in Maryland, the cost of student health insurance policies went from […]
A List Of 23 Famous Obama Quotes That Turned Out To Be Broken Promises Or Cold-Hearted Lies
November 18, 2013 by
How many lies can one president tell and still retain any credibility? What you are about to see is absolutely astounding. It is a long list of important promises that Barack Obama has broken since he has been president. If he had only told a few lies, perhaps the American people would be willing to overlook that. After all, pretty much all of our politicians our liars. Unfortunately, many of the lies that Obama has told appear to have been quite cold-hearted in nature. For example, Barack Obama repeatedly made the promise that “ you will be able to […]
Is Obama Purging the Military of Dissent? – Watch Video
November 18, 2013 by
Those suspicions, in turn, reflect a widely known open secret: Obama is not well-liked, in general, by the military. Partly that is because the military tends to be conservative, and to vote Republican. But it is also because of the way in which the president has used the military as props in his political campaigns while showing little real concern for the welfare of the troops or their success in the field of battle. The most recent example was President Obama’s response to the Navy Yard shootings in September. Even as the attack was ongoing, Obama held a campaign-style […]
Common Core Roll Out As Disastrous As Obamacare Roll Out
November 18, 2013 by
As an adult, could you answer the following math question? You are shown four black squares that are linked to three white squares and then presented with the question âWhich is a related subtraction sentence?â The question has four multiple choice answers that are all addition problems. If you are confused as I am with […]
Education Sec. Arne Duncan Makes Wild Claim About Why Some âWhite Suburban Momsâ Oppose Common Core
November 17, 2013 by
U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan reportedly said on Friday that some of the opposition to the controversial Common Core State Standards is derived from wealthy white mothers upset to learn their children are not as bright as they thought. According to the Washington Post, Duncan told a group of state schools superintendents he found […]
Why Dems better hope Obama’s lying
November 17, 2013 by
STORY HIGHLIGHTS S.E. Cupp: Repeated snafus in health exchange rollouts make it seem Obama’s playing it by ear Cupp: He’s either lying about not knowing exchange website not ready, or he’s incompetent She says lying would be better it’s politically survivable. Incompetence is more damaging Cupp: Dems tout ability to make government solve problems. Botched […]
Thousands of Doctors Dropped from Medicare Advantage
November 17, 2013 by
The insurer said in October that underfunding of Medicare Advantage plans for the elderly could not be fully offset by the company’s other healthcare business. The company also reported spending more healthcare premiums on medical claims in the third quarter, due mainly to government cuts to payments for Medicare Advantage services. The Journal report said that doctors in at least 10 states were notified of being laid off the plans, some citing “significant changes and pressures in the healthcare environment.” According to the notices, the terminations can be appealed within 30 days. President Obama promised every American they could […]
Have Ya Noticed? Obama and the Democratic Party Are Lawless
November 17, 2013 by
So, Obama gave a speech on Thursday where he announced that he was going to unilaterally authorize insurance companies to ignore the law and sell health insurance policies that have been canceled and/or are illegal under Obamacare. Pundits and legal scholars have noted the unconstitutionality of this and wondered if anyone would stop Obama from […]
Penalty for Marriage in Obamacare
November 17, 2013 by
Obamacare signing The Atlantic reports that in practice, this means that a married couple in New York making more than a combined $62,040 gets no subsidies from Obamacare . But two people who live together without getting married? They can make up to a combined $91,920 and still get subsidies from the government. The government has a clear and compelling interest in promoting marriage: Virtually all of the research shows that stable marriages increase economic output, reduce poverty, shrink income inequality, lower rates of incarceration and drug use, and spur the creation of future taxpayers (aka babies). The tax […]