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Gerald Celente, Founder & Director of The Trends Research Institute makes his predictions for 2013.

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In the end, states may hold the key to stopping the federal government from taking over America’s health care system.

Here is Gov. Nathan Deal, (R-GA), on the deadline for states to decide whether they will implement their own exchange for health insurance.

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What Will the Health-Care Law Cost You?

FBN’s Gerri Willis on increasing taxes and costs for Americans due to the health-care law.

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What The Bleep Could Possibly Go Wrong?

Barbara Bellar is a former nun, a U.S.  Army major, a lawyer, a college professor and a physician. Now Dr. Barbara Bellar wants to be a state senator from Illinois, and she has one question about ObamaCare. Read more…

Congress Of Cowards

The following opinion piece is via The Western Center for Journalism which describes itself as a vigorous watchdog that keeps a check on government abuse and the media. The Center believes strongly in open public debate. It also believes that informed public debate requires quality journalism and reporting.  We have published the entire piece here for your convenience rather than simply the link.  We found it thought-provoking and compelling reading and want to share it with our readers and have taken the liberty to add a couple of links for clarification

This current Congress, the 112th, has shown that they are the tamest bunch of legislators to grace the halls of the Capital since the inception of our Republic. The “go along to get along” mentality has caused an erosion of liberty, the likes of which our nation has never seen. From the moment that Obama burst on the scene, he has threatened Congress in one way or another, challenged their authority at every turn, and usurped a good measure of their Constitutional powers along the way with barely any objection from them.

 Obama has managed to use intimidation upon many of his political opponents with great effect as evidenced by his past political campaigns that have sought to win not by persuasive arguments for the benefit of the people but simply disgracing his adversaries and leaving him the only man standing. This abusive method of electioneering is the Chicago “trademark” of politics that’s been perfected by Illinois politicians for generations and is known as the “Chicago Way.”

Why would Obama change his style now that he is on the national stage?

The better question is: Why has Congress accepted such abhorrent and abusive behavior from our president?

Why have they ignored the glaring question of who Obama is? After all, this man has his finger on the nuclear trigger, and we know essentially nothing about him; not his grades from elementary, junior-high, or high school or his college transcripts from Occidental, Columbia, or Harvard.  We do not have any thesis or any writings to speak of from his college years, no testaments from friends and acquaintances during this time on who and what he is as a person, much less his true self. We have no stories from previous girlfriends on the man himself other than “Julia” who has been admitted to be a composite; we could continue this list in perpetuity, and we would be no closer to knowing anything definitive about the man or his beliefs.

It is as if he is a mannequin in a department store window being dressed for the appropriate season and style for whatever is fashionable at the time to whoever is the latest audience of his fleeting machinations.

How is it that a charlatan who has the thinnest of résumés and an even thinner skin can bamboozle or intimidate our entire Congress?

Why do they continue to do his bidding by approving spending bills that waste tremendous amount of taxpayer funds and resources without any accountability from this administration or from Congress itself? Trillion dollar deficits for every year since 2009 is not anything to be proud of, much less to be complicit in.  Why would they pass the “Presidential Efficiency and Streamlining Act” that eliminates Senate approval for certain presidential appointees, giving even more power to Obama while neutering Congress and willfully abrogating their oversight responsibilities?

 The Fast & Furious scandal is nothing more than an illegal criminal enterprise that has left hundreds of people callously slaughtered by viscous narco-terrorists and all that it results in is a mild and meaningless rebuke of a “Contempt of Congress” citation. Then we have the crown jewel of Obama’s corrupt legislative initiatives: the PPACA (aka ObamaCare) which left the entire rule-making responsibility to federal bureaucrats.

This health care legislation is so egregious that federal agencies are making rules that abrogate basic Constitutional rights by caveat without any recourse of the citizens to seek redress, except in the federal courts for violation of their First Amendment rights. An honorary mention needs to be made to the last NDAA, which eliminated two crucial and pivotal Constitutional guarantees (Habeas Corpus and Posse Comitatus) and allows for the indefinite detention of citizens without charges.  It also sanctioned the use of the military for domestic law enforcement purposes, usurping the police powers constitutionally granted to the various states.

How is any of this in the public’s welfare when Congress completely abrogates any oversight responsibility for the legislation they enact, and the citizens’ only recourse is through the courts?

Obama is acting in a supra-legislative manner by declaring new immigration and other laws in deference to current federal statutes, or redefining what these laws mean and whether he and his administration will or will not enforce them.  These are all “acts” that are impeachable offenses as the Constitution is clear in Article II Section 3 on the duties of the president in these matters. When we look back at the impeachment of Nixon and Clinton on such minor offenses as rising to the level of impeachment against these glaring violations of fundamental law, then the only question that comes to mind is the difference must be in Congress itself.

How is it that we have fallen so far and so quickly into anarchy and that one man, Obama, has the ability to redefine law and morality for an entire nation (and our current Congress stands idly by wringing their hands as we descend into lawlessness?) If history is any judge of these acts, then either a terrible retribution is at hand and will be administered by the rule of law, or the citizens in this nation will act (as they are the ultimate arbiters of our destiny.) If these legislators fail to act, this Congress will be turned out along with Obama at the next election for their acts of cowardice, and their names will go down in history as traitors to our American way of life for their obvious acts of betrayal.

We can hope Romney will usher in a cleansing of the halls of Congress with his election, and men of sterner stuff will be elected along with him as they start the important work of rebuilding a nation torn asunder.

Why would Obama change his style now that he is on the national stage?

ObamaCare and Business Growth: A Not So Beautiful Relationship

On July 11 Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney spoke to delegates at the NAACP Convention in Houston and explained that his plans include reducing government spending by eliminating "every nonessential expensive program I can find, and that includes ObamaCare."

Although several other Romney policy proposals were met with applause, the ObamaCare remark was met with significant booing.

For once, a little courage and integrity from a politician.  Romney's Obamacare message is the same for every audience.

Although President Obama declined the NAACP’s invitation to speak he did send the the bumbling and condescending, boob, Joe Biden in his stead.  Here is a snippet of Biden’s “barn-burner" of a speech.”  Here is the full speech for those looking for greater context.

Tommy Thompson in His Own Words: A Montage of Lies and Deceit

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Tommy Thompson backs an Individual Mandate to purchase health insurance. C-Span, 4/17/06

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Tommy Thompson: Champion of ObamaCare

Michelle Obama Tommy "Nanny-State" Thompson

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Tommy Thompson on ObamaCare: "You're not going to be able to repeal it."

Tommy Thompson supports an individual mandate (Tax)

Paul Ryan on whether former Gov. Tommy Thompson is conservative

Was that an endorsement?

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Turning Point: It’s Constitutional—Supreme Court Upholds Obamacare Mandate as a Tax

This morning a divided Supreme Court largely upheld the Obama administration's health-care law, saying the law's penalty for those who ignore a mandate to carry health insurance counted as a tax and was therefore justified by Congress's constitutional taxing power. As vice president Biden might say, "This is really Bleeping big..."

From Merriam-Webster:

Turning Point (noun)

A point at which a significant change occurs.

A time when an important change happens.

Wake–Up Call (noun)

Something that serves to alert a person to a problem, danger, or need.

Early political commentary on the Supreme Court’s judgment suggests this ruling will take some time to sort out.  One thing is certain however, struggling American families will now have a new tax to deal with.

In an interview with George Stephanopoulos on ABC News Barack Obama insisted that the government forcing people to buy Health Care Insurance was not a TAX.

This man could have had a great career as a car salesman or a carnival barker at the "guess your weight" booth. 

This administration reminds me of a freak show without a tent.

Here the court’s 193 page ruling.

Can Health Care in America Be Fixed?

Regardless of the Supreme Court’s ruling today on ObamaCare, what happens next?

Here is an interesting discussion between Dr. Manisha Sharma from Doctors for America Socialist Doctors for America and John Goodman of the National Center for Policy Analysis and author of the new book “Priceless.”   This debate originally aired FBN’s Stossel, June 21.

Witnesses to History SCOTHUS Decides fate of ObamaCare Tomorrow

 Tomorrow we will all be witnesses to history when the United States Supreme Court delivers its opinion on the Constitutionality of  what has been come to be known as “ObamaCare.”

In a piece this morning entitled The Liberal Naysayers vs. The Federalist Papers J.T. Young at The American Spectator wrote the following:

Tomorrow, the Supreme Court will issue one of the most important decisions in its history. It will decide if the Constitution, as it currently exists and was originally intended, is still superior to the actions of the two other branches of the federal government.

Throughout America's history, there has been no doubt that it is. This week, and especially from our most liberal quarters, this historical foundation will be disregarded -- and in the most extreme outbursts, denied outright. Those protests will only grow louder if the Supreme Court rules, as it should, and overturns the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ObamaCare).

It is therefore worthwhile to keep in mind the opinions of three who helped write, defend, and finally pass the Constitution. James Madison, John Jay, and Alexander Hamilton, collectively authoring The Federalist Papers, offer responses to today's liberals that are, if anything, no less important now than when they originally wrote.

Liberals have already attempted to marginalize the Constitution -- thereby diminishing its role relative to the government -- effectively aiming to decide the case in the court of public opinion before it was ever heard in the Supreme Court. They again will claim that the Constitution cannot keep pace with the exigencies of our modern life. They will say that the federal government is more responsive and knows best.

In response, we should call to mind the words of Madison, writing in Federalist Paper #62: "It may be affirmed, on the best grounds, that no small share of the present embarrassments of America is to be charged on the blunders of our governments; and that these have proceeded from the heads rather than the hearts of most of the authors of them. What indeed are all the repealing, explaining, and amending laws, which fill and disgrace our voluminous codes, but so many monuments of deficient wisdom…?"

The Constitution and the Court remain our last fail-safes against the federal government's mistakes.

Liberals have also sought to deny the role of the Supreme Court in this case. They have said, and the Administration has echoed, that the Supreme Court has no role in the PPACA because it is a duly-passed action of the Congress.

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"The most important choice is to get involved"

 

We bring you this important message from the First Lady from October, 2010, just before the mid-term elections.

Obama 2012—Are You In?

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Democrats Upset Over Justice Scalia's Health Care Comments

Amendment VIII, United States Constitution

Excessive bail shall not be required, nor excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual punishments inflicted (Emphasis mine).

Here is one more example of the Democrats’ hypocrisy.In all honesty, Democrats have not cornered the market on dishonesty or hypocrisy. 

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ObamaCare: Individual Mandate: Obama v. Obama

Here is a viral video from Karl Rove's American Crossroads features clips of President Obama arguing both for and against his healthcare bill. Watch the clip.