By Alieta Eck | May 22, 2013 |
I am a physician in private practice who enjoys taking care of elderly patients. Because most retirees over age 65 who want to be insured have no choice but to enroll in the Medicare program, I have continued to cooperate with the program. Many of my physician colleagues have opted out of Medicare, and I wonder how long I can hold out. As I continue to be presented with new Medicare requirements, it appears I am being given two choices. …
By Mike DeVine | May 22, 2013 |
An Obama Administration that first sought to limit freedom of religion to worship also solicited the content of the prayers of political opponents whose free political speech rights they denied in the Election of 2012.
When Democratic Party-like “satraps” sought to eliminate King Darius’s favorite Jew from influencing the Mede then ruling Persia, they conspired to appeal to the King’s vanity with an ordinance that:
“…whosoever shall ask a petition of any God or man for thirty days, save of …
By Bankrupting America | May 22, 2013 |
Uncle Buck
This week, the White House admitted that senior aides insulated President Obama from the IRS audit, deciding it was best to keep him “out of the loop.” While, the president has insisted numerous times that, ultimately, the buck stops with him, Jay Carney said that the president agreed with the decision of senior staff to keep him in the dark. With top IRS officials pleading ignorance (and the fifth) and given the …
By John Walker | May 22, 2013 |
It will be months before the dust settles on the Obama scandals-the Benghazi Cover-up, the IRS suppression of political opposition, the Justice Department snooping on the media, and the shakedown of insurance companies and healthcare providers by Kathleen Sebelius.
It’s a long list. Congressional committees are falling all over each other with hearings and investigations. Meanwhile, the Obama administration struggles with one implausible explanation after another.
Regardless, the real casualty of the multiple scandals will be Obamacare. The …
By Guest Contributor | May 22, 2013 |
As the Senate convenes a hearing today on issues surrounding corporate tax equity, the Institute for Liberty wants to remind lawmakers that their legislative powers do not exist in a vacuum–and that if we want to have a vibrant, thriving, and job-creating economy, we need to be rewarding those who have created, and continue to create jobs. Our convoluted tax code, and our out-of-control regulatory state, both punishes and hobbles those who haven chosen, time and again, to invest in …
