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Yes, Obama and the Democrats are entitled to a bit of a victory lap today, after Chief Justice Roberts searched deeply within his political self and found a path to uphold ObamaCare. Sure, the individual mandate was unconstitutional on the

Yesterday, the Congressional Black Caucus released a letter stating they would walk out of the contempt vote against Attorney General Holder. Mr. Holder and the Department of Justice have not complied with the October 2011 subpoena and will not turn

The argument over the constitutionality of the Affordable Care Act may have been settled by the Supreme Court, but today’s fundraising boom for Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign suggests the issue is far from settled with the American people. At 1:46

Wildfires in Colorado have now burned over 180,000 acres.Unfortunately, these fires come at a time when the federal governmenthas a historically low number of air tankers to fight suchblazes. By the government’s own estimates, it currently has undercontract just one-half

Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi tried to give a heartfelt speech about Brian Terry. She claimed they all wanted justice for Agent Terry and stood firmly behind his family. There’s one problem. She completely butchered his name. It sounds like she

The House of Representatives, in a historic move, has voted Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt of Congress for failure to produce subpoenaed documents in the investigation of Operation Fast and Furious. The vote tallies were 255 yeas, 67 nays,

JP Morgan Chase’s loss of an estimated $2 billion on bad credit derivatives bets may actually go as high as $9 billion, according to a data dump timed to get swallowed by coverage of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold

In yet another vote bucking the state’s executive office, New Hampshire’s Republican controlled-legislature overrode Democrat Gov. John Lynch’s veto of a voter ID bill on Wednesday. New Hampshire is now the latest on a growing list of states to require that

The focus on the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision today seems to center around Chief Justice Roberts’ decision to rewrite Obamacare’s individual mandate as a “tax” rather than a mandate. This, of course, is egregious – the Supreme Court does not

After the disastrous Supreme Court ruling this morning on ObamaCare, House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.) said that the House Republicans will schedule a vote on repealing the health care law on July 11, after the House gets back from its recess. Cantor spoke of the

When The Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” was being debated, Democrats objected to the health care legislation being labeled as “Obamacare,” saying it was derogatory and may even carry racial undertones. Even after the law passed, Democrats like Debbie Wasserman-Schultz,

Thank you, SCOTUS. This Obamacare ruling fires up the troops as America’s eyes are opened! Thank God.This proves to be such an unsettling time in America as we undergo the fundamental transformation that Barack Obama promised he would do to

Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, whose Facebook post about “death panels” galvanized conservative opposition to Obamacare before its passing, came out of the gate with another fiery tweet after the Supreme Court, in a 5-4 vote, upheld the individual mandate

Brian Terry’s family claims the family’s lifelong congressman, John Dingell, has abandoned them. They’re upset he invoked Agent Terry’s name to make a case against holding Attorney General Eric Holder in contempt today, while talking to Politico earlier this week.

In July 2005, against the objections of many conservatives, I penned a column excoriating President Bush for selecting Judge John Roberts as his candidate for Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. “President Bush’s Roberts pick disappoints,” I wrote: On Tuesday

The myth is finished. The Constitutional order was shredded long ago by a Congress that does not care about upholding it; an executive branch interested only in growing federal power; and a Supreme Court that sees itself as a super-Congress,

The Supreme Court has ruled that most of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), aka ObamaCare, is constitutional, with the individual mandate actually surviving as a tax. Apparently, this decision means that the federal government can indeed force religious and other

When he signed Obamacare into law in the East Room of the White House, President Barack Obama did not say a word how the law would impose a tax penalty on individuals who did not purchase private health insurance. After

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld Obama’s health care law in a confusing ruling that apparently indicates that it is constitutional as a tax, although the bill never refers to its fines and penalties as taxes. It is therefore more

Chief Justice John Roberts provided the critical fifth vote to uphold Obamacare in its entirety, in a case that will go down as one of the worst and most consequential cases in American history. Now the Taxing Clause of the

Speaker John Boehner: The president’s health care law is hurting oureconomy by driving up health costs and making it harder for smallbusinesses to hire.  Today’s ruling underscores the urgency of repealingthis harmful law in its entirety.  What Americans want is

This morning, Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal wing of the Supreme Court to effectively remove all limits on federal power. While finding the individual mandate unconstitutional under the Commerce Clause, the Court upheld it as part of Congress’

Georgetown University law professor Randy Barnett, whom the Washington Post recently referred to as “perhaps the key legal thinker developing the case against the Affordable Care Act’s individual mandate,” issued a brief but pointed statement on the Supreme Court’s decision

In a statement today in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold ObamaCare, presumptive GOP nominee Mitt Romney said he agreed with the opinion of those Justices who dissented and that he will act to repeal and replace

According to Chief Justice John Roberts and his liberal colleagues on the Supreme Court, Congress does not have to call a tax a tax in order for it to be a tax. Congress can, in fact, create a penalty instead

According to his Twitter feed, Greg Greene is the New Media Outreach Director for the Democratic National Committee. He’s since deleted the Tweet, but nothing ever really goes away on the InterWebNets:  Patrick Gaspard is the Executive Director of the DNC

Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Reince Priebus released the following statement regarding the Supreme Court’s decision on ObamaCare:

In a complex ruling, the Supreme Court has largely upheld the controversial Obamacare law. The Court struck down the individual mandate as an unconstitutional penalty under the Commerce Clause, but upheld it as a permissible tax. It also limited the expansion

(AP) WASHINGTONThe Supreme Court has upheld the individual insurance requirement at the heart of President Barack Obama’s health care overhaul. The court on Thursday handed Obama a campaign-season victory in rejecting arguments that Congress went too far in requiring most Americans

The Breitbart team at the Supreme Court reports that conservative demonstrators vastly outnumber a small group of pro-Obamacare protestors this morning, as the nation awaits the Court’s historic decision on the health reform law. Some of the pro-Obamacare supporters are

During the first stop of the Americans For Prosperity (AFP) “Real Facts, Real Solutions” bus tour in Virginia, a small group of protestors–organized by the Democratic Party of Virginia–held signs accusing AFP of voter fraud. When asked to comment, they

Not content with attacking the impartiality of the Supreme Court and the legitimacy of judicial review, the Obama campaign is already fundraising off today’s decision on Obamacare–with just a few hours to go before the decision is released. An email

James Carville, one of Bill Clinton’s top political consultants, sent a fundraising e-mail yesterday proclaiming that “The Tea Party is Over,” according to the New York Observer.  The letter, written to solicit fundraising money for Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-NY), says

The Mexican government is unhappy with the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling on the constitutionality of Arizona’s S.B. 1070 law–a ruling that was, on the whole, favorable to illegal immigrants. According to CBS, Mexico’s Foreign Relations Secretary said the country was disappointed