Following the health care decision this morning on the Internet as it unfolded with CNN blaring in the background, I was, like most readers here, surprised. Incidentally, while CNN’s Wolf Blitzer was announcing the mandate was struck down and lining up liberal talking heads to comment, the Internet was reporting, correctly, the opposite. Jeffrey Toobin apologies aside for the initial confusion, it is quite evident | Read More »
The big day has finally arrived and all eyes and ears will be on the United States Supreme Court. This is certainly the biggest and most momentous case they have had since Bush v. Gore in 2000. It should come as no surprise that this writer lives and breathes Supreme Court decisions and dynamics, reading everything written about the Court and its members, every opinion | Read More »
The third actor in health care reform is the provider- mainly hospitals and physicians. During the 1990s, there was a general shift towards chain hospitals through mergers and acquisitions. Citing economy of scale, they were permitted unabated. Unfortunately, this tipped the balance towards hospitals in terms of bargaining power with insurers, especially HMOs which saw a decline in popularity after the 1990s. By nature, chain | Read More »
Yesterday, June 18th, the US Supreme Court announced four opinions, and three that involved the federal government and positions taken by the Obama Administration. The fourth decision was a Confrontation Clause case and DNA testimony involving a state trial in which the federal government was not involved. In the three cases- two involving Indian tribes, but having ramifications beyond Indian affairs- the federal government came | Read More »
As everyone knows, the election in November will boil down to a handful of states. Romney needs to take states that Obama won in 2008 obviously. We can quibble about this state or that state being in play, but that subject will be for another entry. Suffice to say, the likely swing states this year will be: Florida, Iowa, Missouri, New Hampshire, North Carolina, Ohio, | Read More »
Recently, POLITICO ran no less than five articles from the likes of Arne Duncan, Lamar Alexander and others regarding education. This is one topic that has not been debated in the national media by Obama or Romney except when it comes to extending low rates for student loans set to expire at the end of June. Even there, debate is lacking in that both agree | Read More »
Of all the issues that really disturb me, it is the opposition to voter ID laws by liberals, Democrats, the Holder Justice Department and civil rights groups. While we theoretically require someone to present ID in order to obtain money on a credit card or a host of other transactions concededly less important than voting, the blanket opposition to these laws confounds the bounds of | Read More »
In the span of less than a month, we have seen some desperation on the part of Team Obama and his dutiful consorts in the media. An analyst on CNN managed to compare Romney’s speech at Liberty University regarding heterosexual marriage as being akin to George Wallace’s declaration in favor of segregation. Commentators on MSNBC managed to up the ante by comparing Ann Romney to | Read More »
Barack Obama’s recent announcement regarding gay marriage during an ABC News interview comes as no surprise to anyone with a modicum of interest in the 2012 elections. This is less a startling revelation and more a calculated effort to motivate his liberal base and, more specifically, their check books. There is no secret that the Left has adopted LGBT concerns as the “new civil rights | Read More »
More in the continuing line of liberal junk that makes one shake their head and say, “Huh?” 1) Why do we have greater security for credit card transactions than we do for preserving the integrity of voting? 2) After Indiana passed a voter ID law, later upheld by the Supreme Court, why did voter turnout increase? 3) If Citizens United should be overturned to remove | Read More »
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