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Unhappy Sixth Birthday to Obamacare | MRCTV

#Legal Plunder          
    Time sure flies. Six years ago this week, Senate Democrats used a process called reconciliation – which was meant to apply only to budget bills (because it eliminates the filibuster) – to pass the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) without a single Republican vote. The House passed the Senate bill with a 219–212 vote Read More
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Did Free Markets Cause the Flint, Michigan Water Disaster? | Mises Daily

!Monopoly, #Crony Capitalism'          
In the wake of numerous cases of lead poisoning through Flint, Michigan’s government-managed water supply, some commentators immediately began looking for ways to blame the private sector. Shortly thereafter, David Brodwin of U.S. News and World Report wrote “Flint: The Big Cost of Small Government.” According to Brodwin, what caused lead-tainted water to gush forth Read More
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Inclusionary Zoning Is Rent Control 2.0 – Forbes

Rent control is considered by most cities a measure that distorts and inflates housing markets. But many are embracing a similar price control called "inclusionary zoning." Despite prevailing in a few cities, rent control policies have declined across America, for reasons I mentioned in a previous post. They have been found—perhaps counterintuitively—to increase housing costs, Read More
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Sanders, Clinton, and Their Job-Killing Agendas | Cato Institute

This article appeared on National Review (Online) on February 25, 2016. You can’t love employees but hate employers, as Senator Angus King of Maine once said. This fact has been obscured by the circus that has become the Republican nominating process, but on the Democratic side, Hillary Clinton and Bernie Sanders have been running one Read More
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Why Partisan Fights over Supreme Court Nominees Are a Good Thing | Cato Institute

This article appeared on The Hill (Online) on February 23, 2016. With Justice Antonin Scalia’s untimely death, we are preparing for a new fight over the meaning of the Senate giving “advice and consent” on the president’s nominees. It’s time that we look at that those words in context of what we will be fighting Read More
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How to Turn Republicans and Democrats Into Americans – The Atlantic

Angry and frustrated, American voters went to the polls in November 2010 to “take back” their country. Just as they had done in 2008. And 2006. And repeatedly for decades, whether it was Republicans or Democrats from whom they were taking the country back. No matter who was put in charge, things didn’t get better. Read More
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Viaggio nella città più violenta del mondo | Gli occhi della guerra

Verso le sette di sera le strade iniziano a svuotarsi. In giro incontri solo qualche taxi, le sparute pattuglie della polizia e alcune camionette dell’esercito. Benvenuti a Caracas, la città più pericolosa del mondo (le recenti statistiche parlano di 120 omicidi ogni centomila abitanti, più che a Donetsk e Baghdad – la media mondiale è Read More
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I presos politicos venezuelani | Gli occhi della guerra

“Chi commette crimini contro il popolo merita di essere punito. Quegli uomini sono in prigione per ragioni gravi e precise: non è questione di clemenza, è questione di giustizia”. All’indomani della sconfitta elettorale del 6 dicembre 2015, Nicolàs Maduro si è subito affrettato a mettere in chiaro una cosa: maggioranza o no, la liberazione dei Read More
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How A German Historian Predicted The Decline Of Western Civilization 100 Years Ago

Is Western Civilization in Decline? I think nearly everyone in the manosphere would agree that it is. There is a lot of discussion these days about America and the other nations comprising Western Civilization being in decline, and there is certainly a lot of evidence to support this claim. Whether it be dying populations among Read More
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Dieci cose che i giornali non vi dicono su tasse, multinazionali e accordi fiscali – LeoniBlog

Mentre in Europa avanza il progetto di ripensamento radicale del sistema tributario internazionale, sulla scorta delle riflessioni dell’Ocse, in Italia il tema è tornato d’attualità soprattutto grazie alla definizione da parte di Apple e dell’Agenzia delle entrate di un accordo fiscale da 318 milioni di euro, nonché grazie alle indiscrezioni sulla possibilità che a un’analoga Read More

Feds Announce They Will Raise Your Child – YouTube

https://www.acf.hhs.gov/sites/default… Big brother wants to be called Big Daddy now. Paul Joseph Watson writes The U.S. Department of Education and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has published a draft document which outlines a plan that will treat families as “equal partners” in the raising of children, opening the door for government Read More
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Why Obamacare Will Fail – huffingtonpost.com

Political discussion aside, The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will fail for business reasons. Whether the ultimate result is the law getting repealed or modified, change is necessary to have a viable and vibrant health insurance industry that drives cost reduction and improved customer service. The fundamental reason the ACA will fail is because it Read More

Obamacare’s co-ops were regulated to death before they were even born – Watchdog.org

It’s been a no good, very bad month for the Affordable Care Act. One of the nation’s top insurance companies has threatened to pull out of the government-run health insurance exchanges, while others are raising rates by double-digits after realizing that people signing up for insurance tend to be older and sicker than originally hoped. Read More

ObamaCare’s Failure Contagion – WSJ

  Hoover Institution Senior Fellow Scott Atlas explains his proposal to fix the nation’s health care system. Photo credit: Getty Images. The collapse of ObamaCare’s co-ops is punishing other insurers, the Wall Street Journal says in an editorial. The majority of ObamaCare’s insurance co-ops—12 of 23—have now folded, and their $1.24 billion in federal loans Read More