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The World’s Gone Mad Today

Monday, May 20th, 2013

My title comes from a Cole Porter lyric for “Anything Goes.”  If anything, it’s even more relevant today than when he wrote it 79 years ago.

For instance?  For instance, we dither around while tinhorns in Iran and North Korea threaten to nuke us.  I say that when you’re in an alley fight with thugs, you toss out the Marquis of Queensbury rules and do whatever needs to be done to cripple your opponent.  What you don’t do is ask him time and again what you have to give him so that he...

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John Boehner Should Stop Talking and Start Leading

Sunday, May 19th, 2013

House Speaker Can Start with a Select Committee on Benghazi

It is time for House Speaker John Boehner to step away from the microphone, grab the gavel, and start leading as House Republicans move to investigate the Obama scandals and block the implementation of Obamacare.

The House is now awash in investigations and legislative proposals over the Benghazi and IRS scandals. Boehner needs to take charge.

The Speaker can start by supporting the effort to create a Select Committee to investigate Be...

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Obamacare is about to cost more American jobs

Friday, May 17th, 2013

Lots more:

Premiums Skyrocket, Some Could “Soar More Than 400 Percent” Under ObamaCare

Friday, May 17th, 2013

#RateShock!

How much could you (and everyone else) pay for health care in the years ahead thanks to the president’s health care law? According to the nation’s insurers, a lot more — in the individual market an average of double what we pay now with some rates soaring by more than 400 percent. That’s what the nation’s 17 largest insurers told the House Energy & Commerce Committee. You can see the whole report here.

“Internal cost estimates from 17 of the nation’...

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37 Reasons to Repeal ObamaCare

Thursday, May 16th, 2013

After $1 trillion in new taxes and more than $2 trillion in new spending, three years later the Democrats’ law has failed to deliver on the promise of affordable health care for Americans.

Instead, American families and businesses are facing the tough and costly realities of ObamaCare: higher health insurance premiums, the loss of the health plan you have and like, lower wages, and less hiring and business expansion.  Now, on the eve of the 37th vote in the House to repeal all or some of t...

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