The Other McCain

"One should either write ruthlessly what one believes to be the truth, or else shut up." — Arthur Koestler

As Long As We’re Viewing ObamaCare With Integrity, What About Social Security?

by Smitty The main reason I figured the SCOTUS was going to find ObamaCare Constitutional was that punting it could open up challenges to the rest of the Progressive project, e.g. Social Security. Progressivism is antithetical to liberty as we know it. The silver lining crew is attempting to find something good in the Thursday’s whuppin’. […]

Mataconis: Less Guano, Please

by Smitty Mataconis takes Podhoretz to task for asserting that the Chief Justice contradicted himself by discussing ObamaCare in terms of the Anti-Injunction Act for purposes of standing, and then turning around and finding ObamaCare Constitutional as an exercise of tax power. Clearly, Roberts is discussion two very distinct issues in these different section of […]

Save The ObamaCare Adrenalin For GOTV Efforts

by Smitty Surveying the blogs, there is as much certainty about how to interpret Chief Justice Roberts after the fact as there was about the ObamaCare decision prior to issue. Clearly, John Roberts is a strong contender for the All-Time Shrewdest Judas award. While we can all berate Roberts for not simply doing the minimal […]

Michele Bachmann ObamaCare Decision Response At The SCOTUS

by Smitty “. . .Justice Kennedy, who read from the dissent from [the majority] opinion, and he stated quite emphatically that what happened today is that the Supreme Court in effect re-wrote the ObamaCare legislation. In effect, with their opinion, being a legislative court, as opposed to allowing Congress to make that decision.” “One of […]

Life Sucks: Supreme Court Upholds ObamaCare and … It’s Moving Day

Also, Rick Locke has Stage 3 lung cancer, as if we didn’t have enough wretched bummers to go around today, huh? Headlines from Memeorandum: Supreme Court upholds health care law — MSNBC Health care ruling: Individual mandate upheld by Supreme Court — Politico Supreme Court Lets Health Law Largely Stand — New York Times No joy […]

Wonder If Anything Important Happens At The SCOTUS Today?

by Smitty Stacy has been too occupied of late to bequeath his wisdom upon the country. Today, hopefully, will be our Progressive nadir. The point were we read Madison in Federalist #62: It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws […]

Reading Meghan So You Don’t Have To

— by Wombat-socho The right half of the blogosphere owes an enormous debt of gratitude to Betsy Woodruff, William F. Buckley Fellow at the National Review Institute, for she has done something few of us would have the courage to do. Yes, ladies and gentlemen, for our sake Ms. Woodruff took upon herself the vile, […]

Germans Don’t Grasp Separation Of Church & State, Federalism

by Smitty Mrs. Other Smitty sends a Der Spiegel link that offers an external view of what remains one of the signature issues of this country, ObamaCare: Germans Can’t Fathom US Aversion to Obama’s Healthcare Reform Read the whole thing, but let me answer their section headings: System Only Works if Everyone Takes Part The […]

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