By John C. Goodman | Wednesday January 30, 2013 at 11:52 AM PDT | 4 Comments
Probably not. No promise was repeated more often by Barack Obama than the pledge that, “If you like the plan you are in, you can keep it.” For the vast majority of people, however, this promise almost certainly will not be kept. Here’s why. Your Employer May Be Forced to Switch to Another Plan...
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Tags: Healthcare, Insurance, Medicare, Regulation
By Melancton Smith | at 10:08 AM PDT | 4 Comments
Earlier this week, I posted about the recent Court of Appeals decision finding that Obama violated the Constitution when making “recess appointments” when the Senate was not in recess. Well, over at Breitbart, there is an article on the response from the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB). At base, the NLRB has decided to...
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Tags: Business, Constitution, Corruption, Economics, Labor, Law, Politics, Power, Progressivism, The State, Unions
By Anthony Gregory | at 9:38 AM PDT | 26 Comments
An article at Truth Out by Thom Hartmann argues that the Second Amendment was ratified to preserve slavery, particularly to empower the state militia that used arms to enforce the institution through slave patrols. I wrote to Jeffrey Rogers Hummel, an historian who has written at some length about the history of American militia...
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Tags: American History, Constitution, Gun Control, Law, Personal Liberty
By Melancton Smith | at 5:08 AM PDT | 0 Comments
Today, the AP has an interesting article up about a lawsuit brewing in California. It seems that a private, Christian school asked all its teachers to supply a letter of reference from the teachers’ pastors and to also provide the school with a written statement of their faith. Two teachers have refused to do...
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Tags: Bible, California, Children, Christianity, Constitution, Religion