Tag Archives: 111th Congress

Associated Press: Mark Sherman- Explaining Supreme Court’s Health Care Ruling

What I get from Mark Sherman, is that the challenge to the Affordable Care Act in King V Burwell, is that the challengers were saying that the subsidizes through the health care exchanges in the ACA are unconstitutional, because they … Continue reading

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Reason Magazine: ‘How Medicaid & ObamaCare Hurts The Poor’

Source:FreeState Now It’s not that we have a Federal health insurance program for the poor that’s the problem. But how it’s setup and run that is the problem because Medicaid was never setup to be run affordably and efficiently. The … Continue reading

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CATO Institute: Ilya Shapiro: ‘ObamaCare’s Medicaid Expansion Violates Federalism’

Source:FreeState Now I would’ve gone farther to bring down healthcare costs with things like preventive care, taxing junk food and drink, getting junk food and drink out of public schools, encouraging people to eat healthy and exercise, mandatory physical education … Continue reading

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American Thinker: Jim Yardley: ‘A Different View of Paternalism’

Source:The New Democrat  There are two forms of paternalism at least as I see it. One that obviously comes from our parents as shocking as that may sound and I believe the only people it should come from. And as … Continue reading

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CBS Evening News: Ben Tracy: Tea Party Effect on the GOP

Source:FRS FreeState A lot of Republicans, especially incoming House freshmen, won in the Congressional races last night.  Many of the incoming Republican Representatives were also members of the Tea Party.  That’s the glass half full analysis of the effect that the Tea … Continue reading

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Associated Press: Mark Hamrick: Gridlock Congress Could Threaten Economy

Source:FRS FreeState A few nights ago, this blog  predicted that the House Republicans would pick up 45-50 seats and win control of the chamber.  It also predicted that Senate Democrats would lose seats but retain control.  I was 2/3 right. … Continue reading

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CBS Evening News: Katie Couric: Return to Moderation?

Source:FRS FreeState Return to moderation?  As a liberal, I know exactly where I stand on the current issues of the day. I don’t call myself an expert on anything.  Others can judge that for themselves.  I do know where I … Continue reading

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CBS Evening News: Nancy Cordes: Democrats Final Push

Source:FRS FreeState I think that this video makes it pretty clear that President Clinton tried to talk Representative Kendrick Meek into stepping out of the U.S, Senate race in Florida.  It’s also clear that he tried to talk Rep. Meek into throwing his support behind … Continue reading

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Associated Press: President Obama Urges Democrats Not to Get Discouraged

Source:FRS FreeState If Democrats fail to get their voters out in the mid-term elections, then there’s no doubt they’ll lose their majority in the House and be in danger of losing their majority in the Senate as well. Democrats are … Continue reading

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The White House: President Obama Nominates Elena Kagan to Supreme Court

Source:Free State MD When U.S. Justice Paul Stevens announced his retirement from the Supreme Court, I saw it as another opportunity for President Obama and Liberal Democrats, of which I’m one, to appoint another liberal Justice to the Supreme Court … Continue reading

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