A Devastating Blow to Obamacare

Heritage 

The government’s position amounts to an argument that the mere fact of an individual’s existence substantially affects interstate commerce, and therefore Congress may regulate them at every point of their life. This theory affords no limiting principles in which to confine Congress’s enumerated power….

The federal government’s assertion of power, under the Commerce Clause, to issue an economic mandate for Americans to purchase insurance from a private company for the entire duration of their lives is unprecedented, lacks cognizable limits, and imperils our federalist structure.

More from Heritage: A Stunning Victory for the Constitution over Obamacare  "The carefully worded and thorough (over 300 page) set of opinions may be a bit mind-numbing for the uninitiated, but they are a joy to read for those of us who think the words of the Constitution actually mean something beyond whatever an activist Congress, President, and pliant judge want them to mean."

Distinguishing Wickard  "Another interesting portion of the Eleventh Circuit’s decision striking down the individual mandate is its discussion of Wickard v. Filburn. As the court’s opinion notes, the Supreme Court (in Lopez) characterized Wickard as “perhaps the most far reaching example of Commerce Clause authority over intrastate activity.” As a consequence, the Eleventh Circuit concluded, Wickard “provides perhaps the best perspective on an economic mandate” and would need to be distinguished were the mandate to be struck down. With this in mind, below the jump are portions of the Eleventh Circuit’s discussion of Wickard."

The Reasoning of the Eleventh Circuit’s Mandate Opinion

George Will: Making Presidential Race A Referendum On GOP Nominee Is “Barack Obama’s Best Hope”/ Demonizing of the TEA Party

Mediaite  "Barack Obama’s best hope is the Republican nominating electorate. He does not want this to be a referendum on his record, he wants it to be a referendum on the fitness for office of the Republican nominee."

Democrats will level accusations against the Republican nominee with little regard for the absurdity of them. The press will then get the conservative to spend their time denying these charges and the focus will be off of Obama. TD

Tea Party demonization continues  "Do you know what all of this means? Of course you do. The Democrats are scared to death of the tea parties. Say “tea party” to a prog and stand back while they look for a piece of furniture to hide under." Neal Boortz

Don't take leaderless movements like the TEA Party lightly 

"Of late it has become clear that the Federal Government politicians and bureaucrats are finally becoming very worried about the Tea Party Movement (TPM) revolution taking shape before their very eyes that many of them have denounced as a "terrorist" organization of, "Hobbits." "

 Posted by Ronbo at the Freedom Fighters Journal

Photo above from The Middle-Earth Guide to Campaign 2012  How's this for allegory:

"One ring to rule them all/ one ring to find them/ one ring to tax them all/ and in indebtedness bind them."

Why 2012 Must be a Referendum on Obama’s Policies  "Soon, the phraseology will be how Republicans caused the current economic mess. Nancy Pelosi has already tried to blame the massive mess the House of Representatives created under her leadership on John Boehner."

The Democrats best weapon: sound bites (bytes?) of Republicans attacking each other and quotes from John McCain who speaks more kindly of Obama than he does of the TEA Party. TD

Dumping on the Tea Party ; The "Tea Party Downgrade" slander cannot stand.  "You would think that such an obvious pack of lies from the left would have no chance of gaining traction. Think again: According to Rasmussen, they already have 29% of Americans believing that Tea Party members are “economic terrorists.”

"This cannot stand. We know who started the fire, we know who fed and worsened it with their failed “solutions,” and we know who is utterly out of ideas. Incredibly, fewer Americans are working full-time now than were when the recession technically ended. Democrats and all too many RINO accomplices have had their way for 30 months, and all they can show for it is a frightening trail of misery."

CNN, CBS and NY Times polls show CNN, CBS and NY Times anti-Tea Party Strategy is working  "The mainstream media spends two years calling the Tea Party movement racist, extremist, sexist, terrorist, and hostage takers, and then acts as if negative polling results reflect something wrong with the Tea Party movement rather than their own biased reporting."

Report: Pakistan gave China access to 'stealth' chopper in bin Laden raid

With friends like these...

"Pakistan, which enjoys a close relationship with China, allowed Chinese intelligence officials to take pictures of the crashed chopper as well as take samples of its special "skin" that allowed the American raid to evade Pakistani radar, the newspaper reported." Fox has this.

The Pakistanis and the Chicoms deny the whole thing  "But he said that the technology and design features that enable an aircraft to reduce noise and evade radar are not shrouded in secrecy.

"Countries that examine the wreckage "will not learn much from the remnants of the exploded helicopter that were not already readily available in open literature," Thompson was quoted as saying."

From American Thinker: Pakistan gave China access to top secret copter used in bin Laden mission  "If true, this is a huge intelligence coup for China. Our stealth technology is far ahead of other nations - especially China - and for Pakistan to allow a potential enemy to study an advanced technological innovation is a monstrous betrayal."....

"We won't be sure until we determine whether China has developed countermeasures that could shoot down the stealth copter. No doubt such a system would be a hot item on the international arms market."  Emphasis added.

The price will be paid by forces trying to take out Iranian nuclear sites or resisting Islamist agression. Ron Paul, is the US still the guilty party?

Chairman Issa: NLRB a ‘rogue agency’

The Hill  " “The public has a right to know the truth about why a government agency would choose to take action to benefit organized labor that threatens thousands of non-union jobs in South Carolina while setting a precedent impacting manufacturers across the country,” he said. “It is imperative that Congress get complete facts about NLRB’s decision-making process in this matter. Its continued refusal to fully cooperate will not deter this committee as it moves forward in efforts to determine what occurred and to hold NLRB officials to account.” "

Mike Reagan:  NLRB vs. Boeing – Tyranny vs. Freedom  "One of the shameful hallmarks of a dictatorship is the restriction of movement — telling citizens or groups they cannot travel or relocate freely."

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Obama Versus Obama

Victor Davis Hanson  " "Corporate jets" and "millionaires and billionaires" are promiscuously lumped in with those earning above $200,000 in annual income, as if the two groups were synonymous and equally duty bound to pay higher taxes. So how can Obama reduce the unemployment rate to below 9.2 percent, given his past deprecations of business and the job-hiring affluent, coupled with his record of new regulations and rules that favor unions and shut down businesses? At this late stage it proves difficult for Obama to coax those whom he once so gratuitously offended and went after."

http://www.usnews.com/opinion/photos/barack-obama-cartoons/36

NORMAN PODHORETZ :  What Happened to Obama? Absolutely Nothing.  "That is why my own answer to the question, "What Happened to Obama?" is that nothing happened to him. He is still the same anti-American leftist he was before becoming our president, and it is this rather than inexperience or incompetence or weakness or stupidity that accounts for the richly deserved failure both at home and abroad of the policies stemming from that reprehensible cast of mind."

Ron Radosh: What Does Obama Believe? Norman Podhoretz Gets it Right " ...our president indeed is a serious leftist, who developed intellectually and politically in the left-wing culture of his time and who believes deeply in its goals and its programs. Democrats have denied this, he writes, but do so only by ignoring or dismissing what Mr. Obama himself, in a rare moment of candor, promised at the tail end of his run for the presidency: “We are five days away from fundamentally transforming the United States of America.” "

Rioters, first and foremost, are Democrat Voters

Collins Report  "In an official statement, Milwaukee Aldermen Bob Donovan and Joe Dudzik said the riot had been “…spawned by a culture of violence that has been brewing in Milwaukee for some time,” and which “…has much to do with a deteriorating African American culture in our city.”

"In speaking of single parent homes which provide no supervision and demand no responsibility, failed schools and perpetually high unemployment and teen pregnancy rates, Donovan and Dudzik broke every rule of political correctness, stating facts which liberal Democrats dutifully ignore for fear of alienating a Jesse Jackson or losing the support of Black voters."

....  However in Chicago....

"Contrast the response to events in Wisconsin with what took place on Memorial Day in Chicago when North Avenue Beach was suddenly shut down by city officials.

"The reason for the closing, as announced by far Left Police Superintendent Garry McCarthy and later confirmed by Mayor Rahm Emanuel–an unusually high incidence of heat exhaustion.

"And with the assistance of the Chicago Sun Times and ABC News, Emanuel and McCarthy STUCK to that story in the face of hundreds of reports of criminal acts committed by 1000 or more Black gang bangers who attacked beach goers and destroyed property"

chicagonewsreport.com

"For those of you complaining about the north ave beach in Chicago closing

 yesterday,  you can thank the gang bangers for that," said one Twitter user.

Police: State Fair mugger targeted whites; 'easy targets'

Philadelphia Mayor Nutter

WLS890am  "Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker was asked on WLS Radio’s Roe and Roeper Show Friday if he thought the crimes warranted hate crime status, “I think it is absolutely outrageous, it is a hate crime, and I would imagine the prosecutor will be very aggressive on this. There is no tolerance whether it’s white on black or black on white, there shouldn’t be any tolerance in general for that kind of problems.”"....

"Police say the teen told investigators whites were chosen because he considered them "easy targets.""

Meanwhile in LA: Rapper could face charges tied to flash mob calls.

American Thinker had this yesterday.

Some real perspective over at  Wake up Black America. This man has courage. But maybe no friends.

Let Tavis Smiley or Cornel West know your thoughts on this, since they have a stake in it all.

"If you don't treat poor and working people with dignity now, chickens are going to come home to roost later," West said. "And it won't be about love and justice. It will be about revenge, hatred, and then we all go under."

Basically, this is a Maxine Waters-style call to riot; "Brothers in the hood, you have our approval to help yourselves to new stuff!

Time for a Foreign Policy Paradigm Shift; More Reasons to Renounce the Left

Bruce Thornton  "The paradigm of American neo-imperialist, neo-colonialist sins as the cause of our enemies’ aggression, one allegedly legitimized by the disaster of the Vietnam War, must be put to rest. We must take off the “kick me” sign the left has hung on America’s back for forty years, and develop a new paradigm: a foreign policy based on the unembarrassed assertion of American power in service to American goodness, backed up by a demonstrated willingness to stand by our allies and punish our enemies. If we do, we will find it much easier to pursue our global interests and defend our security."

Throughout the twentieth century evil men have dominated guilt-ridden peaceful populations because of the unearned guilt the pacifists had placed on themselves. That guilt still burdens the west while evil grows unabated and more murderous by the year. Courageous leaders who would face down this growing darkness are castigated by the left as war-mongers and racists. Meanwhile threats mount against civilization caused by forces of religious intolerance from the outside and anarchy from the inside. We see the former manifested in the ayatollahs and the Islamists; the latter is evident by forces within such as this, and this, and this.

Meet Washington's Foreign-Policy Fools

The National Interest  "Washington’s policy pirouettes during the Arab Spring have been breathtaking. As protests rose in Egypt, vice president Joe Biden cited Egyptian dictator Hosni Mubarak’s value as an ally. As the regime tottered the administration endorsed a phased transition. As Mubarak’s end neared, U.S. officials endorsed his ouster. None of these pious pronouncements had the slightest effect in Cairo. Popular demonstrations reached a roaring crescendo because most people had tired of dictatorship, not because Washington reluctantly warmed to democracy. Rather, the administration looked pathetic, desperately trying to get ahead of the latest crowd.

"The administration continues to play much the same game in Yemen. When protests first sprouted in Yemen, the White House was backing president Ali Abdullah Saleh. He was a standard issue Third-World thug, but he won favor in Washington for being willing to battle jihadists, including the local al-Qaeda organization." Much more...

Hat tip to Big Peace.

Charles Krauthammer: The system works

Charles Krauthammer  "Of all the endlessly repeated conventional wisdom in today’s Washington, the most lazy, stupid and ubiquitous is that our politics is broken. On the contrary. Our political system is working well (I make no such claims for our economy), indeed, precisely as designed — profound changes in popular will translated into law that alters the nation’s political direction.

"The process has been messy, loud, disputatious and often rancorous. So what? In the end, the system works. Exhibit A is Wisconsin. Exhibit B is Washington itself."

....

"Notice how the loudest complaints about “broken politics” come from those who lost the debate. It’s understandable for sore losers to rage against the machine. But there’s no need for the rest of us to parrot their petulance."

America — not just declining, it’s intentionally being destroyed!

Black Quill and Ink  Quoting Cicero:

“A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves against those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears not a traitor; he speaks in accents familiar to his victims, and he wears their face and their arguments, he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation, he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of the city . . . . A murderer is less to fear.”

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UK Anarchy? Poverty Didn’t Cause Those Riots; Just Ask Some Of Those Arrested! Calls for rioting in the US

UK Daily Mail  "Poverty, social exclusion, poor education - these are just some of the theories put forward to explain the recent rioting.

"Yet shockingly, among those in the dock accused of looting are a millionaire's grammar school daughter, a ballet student and an organic chef.

"A law student, university graduate, a musician and an opera steward also said to have taken part.

"They are just some of the youngsters from comfortable middle-class backgrounds who have been charged with criminality."



Laura Johnson's £1m detached family home in Orpington, Kent. It has extensive grounds and a tennis court

Prepare to gag:  Smiley and West: Poverty, Income Inequalities in US Could Lead to UK-Like Riots

"If you don't treat poor and working people with dignity now, chickens are going to come home to roost later," West said. "And it won't be about love and justice. It will be about revenge, hatred, and then we all go under."  Basically, this is a Maxine Waters-style call to riot; "Brothers in the hood, you have our approval to help yourselves to new stuff!"

Mayor Nutter’s Call; It is a sign of the times that basic decency has grown unusual.  Expect this courageous man to be attacked by the usual suspects, two of whom are linked to in the preceding article.

Concealing black hate crimes  "Across the U.S., mobs of black youths are organizing on Facebook to loot stores and beat whites. Yet none dare call the "flash mob" attacks hate crime, least of all the attorney general."



 

PBS hosts Smiley and West