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On the eve of open enrollment for Obamacare, a glitch prevented users from submitting their applications for hours on Saturday.

Three senior House Democrats are pleading with the Obama administration to bend the Obamacare rules to prevent their constituents and millions of Americans from being hit with Obamacare tax penalties.

The White House tweeted multiple times encouraging people to sign up for Obamacare on Sunday, but said nothing of the Christian hostages slaughtered by ISIS.

The White House website suffered security breaches this weekend at the same time President Obama was addressing a Stanford University cybersecurity summit, an unfortunately ill-timed incident for an administration many see as languishing in the fight to protect the nation’s cyber institutions.

As tax season begins conflicting rules over the tax penalties for Obamacare are plunging millions into confusion, especially the working poor who are not eligible for subsidies but do not make enough to afford a new healthcare insurance policy.

Like other forays into politicized science, the Scott Walker flap is about tribalism, not rational debate.

About 100,000 households received erroneous tax forms from California’s Obamacare exchange. Covered California admitted that their customer data didn’t match what health insurance companies had on file.

If there is no way to keep government honest, then it is incumbent upon us to keep it weak. Right now, the U.S. has the worst of both worlds: Strong, yet too often dishonest, government.

Office supply retailer Staples is pushing back against President Obama, after he attacked the company’s stance on part-timers and ObamaCare.

In response to a question about the office supply store Staples, President Obama says he’s tired of hearing about companies cutting hours and wages from part-time employees as a result of Obamacare.

The slow-roll implementation of Obamacare threatens to close U.S. commercial ports on the West Coast.

Someone on Capitol Hill has taken notice of the lawsuit Judicial Watch filed last fall challenging members of Congress who are taking advantage of health benefits they are not entitled to claim. That someone is Sen. David Vitter (R-LA), who now chairs the Small Business & Entrepreneurship Committee.

Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal (R) is fast becoming one of the most vocal enemies of the Common Core standards. A potential 2016 presidential candidate, Jindal slammed the controversial education initiative during a speech in Washington, D.C., Thursday, asserting that the standards were created by “the elite in D.C.,” who “think they know better than we do.”

One of the largest data breaches in history was revealed Wednesday, as health insurance giant Anthem Inc. acknowledged its computer system was violated starting on December 10. The company noticed the breach on January 27 and verified it two days later.

Democrats seized on Tuesday’s Obamacare repeal vote in the U.S. House of Representatives to raise cash, sending a slew of fundraising spam to their email lists, raising the alarm–and raising potential millions of dollars from alarmed supporters.

Jonathan Gruber, the architect of ObamaCare, may face more questions from the House Oversight Committee.

Representative Alcee Hastings (D-FL) referred to Texas as “crazy” and said that Florida was “in many respects, coming close to being just as crazy” during a hearing on Monday. After Representative Michael Burgess (R-TX) criticized the Obama administration for not

End of sequestration signals explosive new spending splurge in Washington; The Iraq war had nothing to do with the federal deficit; Government receipts plunged when the bubbles burst; The high federal deficit is caused by bubbles bursting, not the Iraq war

Despite President Barack Obama’s promise that Obamacare plans would cost less than the average cell phone or cable bill, a new study finds that nearly half of the nation’s uninsured say Obamacare is too expensive.

A substitute teacher is not necessarily someone who most people think of as a full-time employee but school districts are grappling with the reality that the federal government considers anyone who works an average of 30 week hours as one. As a full-time employee, they are eligible for employer provided health insurance coverage in a company of 50 full-time employees or more, as mandated through the Affordable Care Act (ACA), also known as Obamacare.

Indiana Governor Mike Pence defended his state’s healthcare plan and urged Congressional Republicans to defund the president’s executive action on immigration while supporting improvements in areas such as “highly-skilled workers” on Thursday’s “Laura Ingraham Show.” Pence re-iterated his opposition to Obamacare

Indiana Gov. Mike Pence is the most recent Republican governor to buy into President Obama’s push to expand Medicaid.

A lawmaker in New Hampshire wants to open up his state’s insurance market by allowing companies from other states to sell policies there.

A British newspaper is doing the math and explaining exactly what ObamaCare is likely to cost American taxpayers over the next 10 years. The human costs, of course, are incalculable but much higher.

On Monday Darcie Johnston, head of Vermonters for Health Care Freedom, told Breitbart News that Gruber may have a “phantom billing” problem. It centers around whether Gruber actually paid $80,000 to assistants. In addition to the state of Vermont, the state of Minnesota, the House Government Oversight and Reform Committee have confirmed and the Inspector General’s Office of the Department of Health and Human Services is considering conducting inquiries into Gruber’s billing practices and consulting contracts.

Vice President Joe Biden wrapped up his California visit on Friday by telling doctors that the Affordable Care Act, or Obamacare, had “ended the debate” about whether health care is a privilege or a right, according to the Orange County Register.

“Washington is broken and our country is in serious trouble and total disarray,” said Donald Trump at the Iowa Freedom Summit on Saturday. There is a reason for America’s demise, the Real Estate and Construction mogul informed: “Politicians are all talk and no action. And it’s constant it never ends.”

The odds that Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber may face charges for padding invoices are going up. Gruber has been paid $160,000 by the state of Vermont, $80,000 of which is for 800 hours of work he claimed in an invoice was performed by unnamed research assistants. But so far Gruber has failed to provide evidence that these research assistants actually exist and did in fact perform work under the contract.

Talk radio host and author “The Liberty Amendments,” Mark Levin predicted Congressional Republicans will not defund the president’s executive action on immigration or Obamacare this year on Wednesday’s “Hannity” on the Fox News Channel. “When it comes to Obamacare, why

There is a lawsuit that could bring President Obama’s federal healthcare crashing down under the weight of its own lawlessness. Judicial Watch filed an amicus brief in support of plaintiffs who are making the plain, obvious point to the United States Supreme Court that President Obama (or any other president) should not be permitted to rewrite federal statues in brazen violation of the U.S. Constitution’s separation of powers.

Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) delivers a response to President Barack Obama’s 2015 State of the Union address. Senator Paul prescribes several policy changes for the federal government, including congressional term limits, tax cuts, and free-market healthcare reform.

Remember all those promises about how the ObamaCare website, HealthCare.gov, would be a veritable Fort Knox of data integrity, a super-secure environment where your personal information would be treated like delicate, priceless treasure? Never mind all that! The more your rulers know about you, the better they can predict or manipulate your actions. It was inevitable that data harvested from ObamaCare applications would be stored and put to later use.

Representative Steve Russell (R-OK) touted votes that the new Republican Congress had already taken on Obamacare, Keystone XL, and the president’s executive action on immigration during the GOP Weekly Address on Saturday. Transcript as Follows: “Good morning. I’m Steve Russell,

Embattled Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Administrator Marilyn Tavenner is resigning her post overseeing Obamacare just months after she admitted that the Obama White House’s highly publicized 8 million Obamacare enrollment figure was inflated by at least 1.3 million.

The Obama administration’s relentless efforts to punish the American people for defying its wishes continue, as the Internal Revenue Service throws a massive temper tantrum about “budget cuts” and tells terrified Obamacare victims they’re on their own this tax season.

Conservative movement leaders are unveiling the mandate they say Republicans have heading into this new Congress, after voters gave them a majority in both the House and Senate for the first time during President Obama’s tenure.

The document, obtained exclusively by Breitbart News, details how the conservative leaders expect Republicans in Congress to “stop” Obama’s “fundamental transformation of America,” something they say the American people made clear in the 2014 midterm elections with such resounding GOP victories.