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Obamacare Results in 47 Percent Premium Hike

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/17/2010

Obamacare has just led to a 47 percent increase in some health insurance premium rates in Connecticut: The state’s largest insurer has been approved to…

Healthcare

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Judge Rejects Obama Administration’s Motion to Dismiss Challenge to Obamacare

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/15/2010

A judge in Florida has rejected the Obama administration’s motion to dismiss challenges to Obamacare brought by 20 state attorneys general and the…

Healthcare

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New Jobless Claims Rise to 462,000

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/14/2010

New applications for unemployment benefits rose last week to 462,000, and unemployment is at 9.6 percent. Employers are reluctant to hire because of…

Labor and Employment

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Stop Coddling Mortgage Deadbeats

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/14/2010

Right now, there’s a big manufactured outrage over the fact that at a few banks, paperwork errors occurred in foreclosures. The Wall Street Journal…

Law and Litigation

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Obama Administration Slowed Response to BP Oil Spill By Keeping Public In the Dark

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/08/2010

The Obama administration initially downplayed the seriousness of the Gulf oil spill, “slowing response efforts and keeping the American people in the dark…

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Ignorance at the New York Times: Kate Zernike and the “Rule of Law”

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/08/2010

The New York Times doesn’t know what the “rule of law” means.  In a story on the Tea Parties, reporter Kate Zernike claims that the…

Law and Litigation

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Stimulus Money Went to Prisoners and Dead People

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/08/2010

17,000 prison inmates received checks courtesy of the $800 billion stimulus package, notes the Associated Press.  $18 million in checks went to dead…

Labor and Employment

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Private Employers Cut 39,000 Jobs in September

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/07/2010

The private sector shed 39,000 jobs in September.  Liberal journalists claim this was “unexpected.”  This reveals their shaky grasp of economics. If you…

Energy and Environment

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If You Like Your Health Plan, You May Lose It Anyway

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/05/2010

Another major employer, 3M, has decided to “eventually stop offering its health insurance plan to retirees, citing the federal health overhaul as a factor.”…

Consumer Well-Being

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Supreme Court Is Neither Pro-Business Nor Conservative

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/05/2010

The Supreme Court is not a particularly conservative court. It rules against businesses more than the lower federal courts do, and its rulings have overturned…

Consumer Freedom

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Obamacare May Force McDonald’s to Drop Health Coverage for Employees

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 10/01/2010

Michelle Malkin points out that “McDonald’s has notified the feds that it may be forced to drop health insurance for some 30,000 workers due…

Consumer Freedom

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22,000 Lose Their Health Insurance Due to Obamacare

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/29/2010

Approximately 22,000 senior citizens just lost their health plan with Harvard Pilgrim Health Care, which dropped its Medicare Advantage Program due to “cuts in…

Consumer Well-Being

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New EPA Rules Will Cost More than 800,000 Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/28/2010

New EPA rules will cost more than 800,000 jobs, probably far more, according to a newly released congressional report.  That includes the EPA’s…

Energy and Environment

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Five Radicals Approved for Judgeships by Senate Judiciary Committee

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/24/2010

Five radicals have been approved for judgeships by the Senate Judiciary Committee, voting along party lines. The committee held over for…

Law and Litigation

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Obama Financial Czar Appointment Is Unconstitutional, Liberal Law Professor Says

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/23/2010

Obama has appointed controversial Harvard Law Professor Elizabeth Warren to informally run the powerful, newly-created Bureau of Consumer Financial Protection that will regulate the…

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Many Free Checking Accounts Disappearing Due to Dodd-Frank Financial “Reform” Law

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/22/2010

The so-called financial “reform” bill that passed Congress — the Dodd-Frank Act — is wiping out many free checking accounts, since…

Law and Litigation

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Unfair ‘Paycheck Fairness Act’ Shafts Workers With Hazardous Jobs

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/22/2010

We wrote earlier about the Paycheck Fairness Act, a bill of Orwellian deception that would result in employees unfairly receiving equal pay…

Labor and Employment

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Insurers Drop Children’s Health Insurance Due to Obamacare

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/21/2010

Insurers have stopped writing children-only health insurance policies due to mandates in Obamacare that ignored basic principles of economics.  So if…

Consumer Freedom

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General Motors Now Admits It Didn’t Repay Bailout Money

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/20/2010

Contrary to its claims in TV ads earlier this year, General Motors has now admitted that it did not repay…

Consumer Freedom

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Insurance Regulators Approve Increases Based on Obamacare

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/19/2010

In Connecticut, insurance rate regulators have approved hikes in insurance premiums of up to 20 percent, agreeing with insurers that…

Consumer Well-Being

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President Renominates Radicals and Oddballs for Judgeships

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/17/2010

President Obama has just renominated four controversial men to judgeships, even though they previously failed to get confirmed by the Senate…

Law and Litigation

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Obama’s Broken Pledge to Cut Wasteful Spending

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/16/2010

When Obama was elected, he claimed he would “go through our federal budget– page by page, line by line–eliminating those programs we don’t need.”…

Regulatory Reform

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Obama Aides Cheat on Taxes, as Obama Administration Raises Taxes and Violates Constitution

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/10/2010

Forty-one aides to President Obama owe $831,000 in back taxes.   Meanwhile, as noted earlier, unpaid taxes have risen 37 percent among Capitol Hill…

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Obama Administration Mandates More of the Risky Loans That Spawned the Mortgage Crisis

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/10/2010

The federal government is now expanding the affordable-housing mandates that helped spawn the mortgage crisis by goading mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to…

Labor and Employment

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America Declines in Property Rights, Rule of Law

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/09/2010

The World Economic Forum says that property rights are deteriorating in the United States, to the point where America ranks behind third-world countries…

Labor and Employment

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New Stimulus Plan Gets Skeptical Response, Even From Democrats

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/09/2010

Obama’s plan for $50 billion more in stimulus spending is getting a skeptical response even from some Democratic lawmakers.  (We explained earlier why…

Labor and Employment

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Obama Proposes $50 Billion More in Wasteful Deficit Spending

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/08/2010

President Obama has proposed $50 billion more in deficit spending after his original $800 billion stimulus package…

Energy and Environment

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You Were a Sucker If You Were Responsible, Thrifty, and Saved Money for a Down Payment

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/07/2010

The Obama administration will launch today a new $14 billion program to bail out some people who are underwater on their mortgages.  During the…

Consumer Freedom

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Unemployment Jumps to 9.6%, 54,000 More Jobs Lost

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/03/2010

Unemployment went back up to 9.6%, as the nation shed 54,000 jobs in August.  Yet Obama calls this “Recovery Summer.”  This is…

Energy and Environment

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Federal Government Wastes Millions on Vacant, Run-Down Buildings, Including a Pink Monkey House

  • By: Hans Bader
  • 09/02/2010

The Department of Veterans Affairs is spending millions annually on 314 run-down, vacant buildings, including a pink monkey house. “The buildings are home to…

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