A wealthy Hispanic executive who makes a fortune dealing with the Hispanic market is on the march to eradicate the term “illegal immigrant.” Charles Patrick Garcia, writing on the CNN website, lauds the U.S. Supreme Court for eschewing the use
Today, Jay Carney fell into the unfortunate trap of attempting to explain President Obama’s view of Obamacare. If it’s a tax, President Obama’s signature plan is legal, but violates Obama’s campaign pledge not to raise taxes on those earning less
The current top headline on Memeorandum is “Romney’s Tax Confusion.” This morning on CNN I spoke with Don Lemon about the Romney camp’s earlier remark on the tax/mandate battle and Romney’s reported “confusion.” Why doesn’t anyone want to ask about
On a hurriedly-arranged, on-the-record conference call this morning, Gov. Bobby Jindal of Louisiana and former Governor Tim Pawlenty of Minnesota sought to reassure conservatives that Mitt Romney intends to take the fight to Barack Obama. The call followed widespread criticism
The “Fortnight for Freedom,” a national campaign led by the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops (USCCB), concluded on July 4th with a closing mass held at the National Shrine of the Immaculate Conception in Washington D.C. The campaign, designed
The Los Angeles Times, gearing up for their Obama campaign push disguised as objective news reporting, is trumpeting poll results that claim Barack Obama is opening a lead over Mitt Romney because of the Obama campaign’s depiction of Romney has
In an exclusive interview, presumptive GOP presidential nominee Mitt Romney on Wednesday told CBS News chief political correspondent Jan Crawford that the individual mandate in President Obama’s signature health care law, which was upheld last week by the Supreme Court,
On this Fourth of July, we should remember just how little President Barack Obama cares for America. He does not believe the United States is an exceptional nation in any unique sense. He refused to wear a flag pin as
The long-awaited Supreme Court decision on the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act has determined that the individual mandate is an unconstitutional penalty under the Commerce Clause but upheld it as a tax! What we now have is a precedent which
On one of the most important weekends to date in the 2012 presidential campaign, Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan and Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal appeared on ABC’s “This Week” and NBC’s “Meet The Press,” respectively, as Mitt Romney surrogates to discuss
Everywhere you look, Democrats are looking to put space between themselves and the use of the word “tax” to describe the Obamacare individual mandate. And although this was the only way the key component of Obama’s healthcare overhaul survived Supreme
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell appears to be waving the white flag on repealing Obamacare. The Tea Party is ready to fight. The Republican National Committee appears to be ready to fight. But the day after the Romney campaign backed
On Monday, July 2, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott participated in a conference call sponsored by Americans for Prosperity – Texas to talk Obamacare and how it affects the states. During that call, AG Abbot said “the American people lost”
Conservatives should be ecstatic that Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts sided with the four liberal Justices ruling the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is constitutional as a tax, while siding with the four conservative Justices that the law is unconstitutional
As I was listening to the Supreme Court’s decision, I went from the feeling of euphoria and vindication to utter disbelief. I haven’t felt this way since watching the recent Pacquiao fight. The Affordable Care Act was upheld because the
The Supreme Court’s landmark–and controversial–ruling on President Barack Obama’s signature health care legislation last week has expectedly stirred passions and inspired widely varying opinions concerning the court’s 5-4 decision to uphold the Affordable Care Act’s core mandates. Heritage’s Robert Alt and
It’s the Super Bowl, late in the game. It’s third and long, and the team determines that it must run a pass play, as a running play will not likely gain the long yardage needed. The quarterback completes a long
(AP) ELIZABETHTOWN, Ky.It’s on his to-do list, but U.S. Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell says the odds are against repealing the health care law championed by President Barack Obama. The Kentucky Republican said Monday it’s hard to unravel something of the
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has dissolved a committee that was asked to come up with legislation that would require all the men in Israel, whether they be non-religious Jews, ultra-Orthodox Jews, Arabs, Christians, etc., to serve in the Israeli
In an eloquent, heartfelt and powerful op-ed in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal titled “What is the American Creed,” David Gelernter, a professor of computer science at Yale, delineates the ideas that distinguish American exceptionalism and exactly how they are abused
Obamacare is a tax. President Barack Obama lied to the American people when he said it was not a tax, only to turn around and argue at the Supreme Court that it was. Now that Chief Justice John Roberts has
This morning, Mitt Romney surrogate Eric Fehrnstrom announced that the Romney campaign construed Obamacare as an individual mandate rather than a tax: The Governor was clear on many different occasions since the passage of health care reforms in Massachusetts. What
It can be dangerous business trying to read the tea leaves and guess a Supreme Court vote based upon questioning during oral argument. In March many experts believed, based upon the questions asked by the justices, that the so-called “individual
The Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision was the second of two major rulings last week. And the High Court did a bit better as far as the rule of law is concerned when it upheld a major provision of Arizona’s illegal
Rasmussen Reports did extensive polling this weekend — the weekend after the Supreme Court ruled to uphold Obama Care — and found that 52% of Americans still want it repealed. Moreover, 49% believe the bill is bad for the country
