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Whether You THINK About Health Insurance or NOT – Judge Says Government Can Regulate That

Originally published March 2, 2011, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated June 30, 2013. Leave a Comment

Whether You THINK About Health Insurance or NOT – Judge Says Government Can Regulate That

Remember Ripley’s Believe it or Not? Maybe the Ripley’s folks should present this information, because it’s about as strange as some of the things I remember seeing on the TV show I watched when I was a teen. We’ve been writing about rulings on cases challenging the health care law, and most recently, we’ve put […]

Filed Under: Health Care, Legal Limit Tagged With: activist judges, big brother, commerce, commerce clause, commercial activity, constitutional, court rulings, district court, federal, government power, health care law, health care lawsuits, healthcare, implementation, individual mandate, judge gladys kessler, judicial over reach, lawsuits, mental activity, obamacare, regulation, reversible error, role of federal government, thought police, unconstitutional

Feeling Surprised and Betrayed by GOP Senate Votes on Food Safety Bill?

Originally published December 5, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated December 5, 2010. Leave a Comment

Feeling Surprised and Betrayed by GOP Senate Votes on Food Safety Bill?

I wish I could say that I find the results of Tuesday’s Senate vote on S-510 a surprise, but I don’t. People have expressed shock that so many Republican Senators voted in favor of granting a lot more power to the FDA, spending $1.4 billion we cannot afford, and likely hurting smaller-sized farms. Read full articleFeeling Surprised and Betrayed by GOP Senate Votes on Food Safety Bill?

Filed Under: Featured, Federal Tagged With: adrian smith, Ben Nelson, blue slip procedure, fda, food and drug administration, food safety bill, house of representatives, jeff fortenberry, lee terry, mike johanns, ne senator, nebraska senators, out of control government, regulation, revenue bills in house, s-510, senate vote food safety bill, senator johanns, senator mike johanns, senators who voted yes on food safety bill, sweeping regulatory authority, us constitution, yes votes on food safety bill

Battle For the Future: A Nation of Makers or Takers?

Originally published November 26, 2010, By Shelli Dawdy. Updated February 1, 2013. Leave a Comment

Battle For the Future: A Nation of Makers or Takers?

As the holiday weekend continues, if you’re looking for some substantive diversion from the usual pursuits, I have the following documentary to recommend. It seems a very appropriate moment to recommend it as we are nearing the end of one year and ready to begin a new one. Hosted by John Stossel and aired on […]

Filed Under: Bar Room Banter, Featured, Videos Tagged With: battle for the future, big government, direction of america, documentaries, economics, entitlement programs, fox documentaries, free market economy, hurting the economy, john stossel, makers and takers, makers vs takers, nanny state, regulation, reversing government policies, reversing the big government trend, unsustainable debt, welfare state

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