Yearly Archives: 2012
Bain Drain
While Obama accuses Romney of outsourcing jobs at Bain Capital and Romney denies it, Michael Kinsley asks, “what’s wrong with outsourcing?”
Penn State
Jerry Sandusky is guilty. He created his own monument to Penn State and it isn’t pretty. For over a decade, Penn State officials did nothing to protect children from Sandusky’s pervert behavior according to a report filed by former FBI director, Louis Freeh.
“Over and over, Freeh’s damning report referred to a pervasive and damaging culture at Penn State,”
Bipartisanship
In the Obamacare ruling shakeout over the Obama Healthcare Mandate, it appears that Roberts changed his mind after writing the, then, majority opinion overturning the individual mandate based on the commerce clause. He later wrote the new majority opinion upholding the mandate under Congress’ taxing power.
The chief justice isn’t the only one having it both ways. Obama has loudly insisted an estimated one zillion times on national TV that the mandate is not a tax (and he still does, now that he’s won).
After Justice Kennedy’s famous question, “can we create commerce in order to regulate it?”, it looked like the court wasn’t going to uphold the mandate as regulated commerce. So, the administration lawyers argued, hell yes, it’s a tax!
Obama Tax Plan
The Obama Tax Plan: The President’s idea of a tax break seems to be when he doesn’t raise your taxes.
