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rel="bookmark" title="CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO REDEEM HIMSELF">CHIEF JUSTICE ROBERTS WILL HAVE THE CHANCE TO REDEEM HIMSELF</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="11:21 pm">March 3, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Matt Barber">Matt Barber</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> Before the Democrat-led Senate rammed it through in the dead of night, Christmas Eve 2009 – Senate President Harry Reid used a House bill unrelated to Obamacare, struck all the language and the title so that only the former HR number remained, and then inserted a new title and over 2,000 pages of job-killing, economy-crushing, health-care-rationing compost. <p class="MsoNormal"> Sneaky? Yes. Typical? No doubt. Unconstitutional? Absolutely. It’s like dropping a Ford Pinto engine into a totaled Ferrari body, patching it up and then selling it to some unsuspecting dupe as a “brand new Ferrari.” </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Unfortunately, America was that unsuspecting dupe. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Well, the jig’s up. Although the mainstream media paid it little attention, back in November (11/26/12) the U.S. Supreme Court shocked many in the legal community by <a href="http://www.christianpost.com/news/liberty-university-obamacare-challenge-can-continue-supreme-court-says-85578/">granting Liberty Counsel’s motion for a rehearing</a> on its multi-pronged challenge to Obamacare. The high court ordered the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals to rehear arguments. We will present our oral arguments May 14-17. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> Liberty Counsel’s brief argues that Obamacare is invalid because, since it’s a tax – as the Supreme Court already ruled in June – it violates the Constitution’s Origination Clause. To pass constitutional muster, tax bills must originate in the House, not the Senate. </p> <p class="MsoNormal"> No matter how the 4th Circuit rules, it will be appealed to the SCOTUS. Chief Justice Roberts will get another bite at the rotten apple – this time, with a whole new quiver of legal arrows. </p> </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/chief-justice-roberts-will-have-the-chance-to-redeem-himself/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5895" class="art-post art-article post-5895 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-c89-free-articles" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/do-you-have-a-healthcare-plan-b/" rel="bookmark" title="DO YOU HAVE A HEALTHCARE PLAN B?">DO YOU HAVE A HEALTHCARE PLAN B?</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="1:27 pm">March 1, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Will Block">Will Block</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> It is imperative that you tend to your Plan B program, whether you decide to stay in Dodge (the US) or not! One significant part of your preparation should be to put together a medicine cabinet, because when the Unaffordable Healthcare Act fully kicks in, it may not be possible to secure critical prescription items such as antibiotics, even with a prescription. Yet it is possible to acquire antibiotics and other items today <em>without</em> a prescription. Furthermore, as has already been the case in Canada for some years under socialized medicine, certain surgical procedures may be unavailable because of your lack of "social utility," especially depending on your age. Or wait lines may be so long that your prognosis changes from problematic to critical during the intervening time. Also, new medical modalities may not be available here in the United States. This is why, as part of your Plan B, you need to know about medical tourism, through which it will be possible to access new alternatives, and to do so far less expensively than in the U.S. A healtcare storm is about to descend upon us. How do you prepare for it? </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/do-you-have-a-healthcare-plan-b/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5892" class="art-post art-article post-5892 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-lady-needs-a-clue/" rel="bookmark" title="THE LADY NEEDS A CLUE">THE LADY NEEDS A CLUE</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="12:58 pm">March 1, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jkelly/" title="View all posts by Jack Kelly">Jack Kelly</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> "Just got off the phone with my health care provider asking them to explain why my premium jumped up," Democratic political strategist <a href="http://michellemalkin.com/2013/02/27/donna-brazile-health-insurance-premium/">Donna Brazile </a> tweeted.<span> </span>"No good answers." The poor lady needs a clue.<span> </span> "Health insurance companies are seeking and winning double digit increases in premiums for some customers, even though one of the biggest objectives of the Obama administration's health care law was to stem the rapid rise in insurance costs for customers," wrote New York Times reporter <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/01/06/business/despite-new-health-law-some-see-sharp-rise-in-premiums.html?pagewanted=all">Reed Abelson</a> Jan. 5. Mr. Abelson needs a clue, too.<span> </span>Premiums aren't soaring in spite of Obamacare. They're rising because of Obamacare. Duh. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-lady-needs-a-clue/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5891" class="art-post art-article post-5891 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-members-only-articles" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-square-mogadishu-peg-the-round-somalia-hole/" rel="bookmark" title="THE SQUARE MOGADISHU PEG, THE ROUND SOMALIA HOLE">THE SQUARE MOGADISHU PEG, THE ROUND SOMALIA HOLE</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="12:26 pm">March 1, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Dr. Jack Wheeler">Dr. Jack Wheeler</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> <em>Mogadishu, Somalia.</em> Who would ever guess that you can have a fantastic lobster dinner here, in what is billed as "the most dangerous city in the world"? And that there's a first-class restaurant that serves it? Ahmed Jama managed to escape the bloody horror of warlord anarchy that enveloped Mogadishu in the early 90s. As a refugee in London, he borrowed money from relatives and opened a restaurant that did well - but he always dreamed of returning to his country when the time was right. His friends though he was crazy when he said the time was 2008. The hyper-terrorist lunatics of Al-Shabaab still controlled most of the city. Ahmed went back anyway - and his restaurants promptly became a terrorist target. The latest attack was last September, when two Al-Shabaab suicide bombers killed 18 people at his The Village restaurant. Ahmed rebuilt and reopened it in less than a month. Here is Ahmed in front of it today: </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/the-square-mogadishu-peg-the-round-somalia-hole/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5878" class="art-post art-article post-5878 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/half-full-report-030113/" rel="bookmark" title="HALF-FULL REPORT 03/01/13">HALF-FULL REPORT 03/01/13</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="8:25 am">March 1, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jkelly/" title="View all posts by Jack Kelly">Jack Kelly</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> For the last two weeks, President Barack Obama and his aides have been warning about horrible calamities that will ensue when the dreaded sequester begins tonight. But no one can outdo Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Cal, in <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/341897/maxine-waters-sequester-could-cause-170-million-jobs-be-lost-charles-c-w-cooke">fearmongering. </a>The sequester could cost "over 170 million jobs," she said. "<em>This is very disturbing news</em>," said <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/341902/170-million-jobs-lost-112564000-jonah-goldberg">Jonah Goldberg</a>, because according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, fewer than 113 million Americans have full time jobs. This is the Washington Monument Gambit, on steroids. James Capretta and Tevi Troy detail the administration's scare tactics <a href="http://www.nationalreview.com/articles/341712/obama-s-sequester-scare-tactics-james-c-capretta">here</a>. What Obama is saying about the sequester is so wildly at odds with the facts, he could be headed for a <a href="http://news.investors.com/ibd-editorials/022613-645849-obama-warns-on-sequester-public-seems-unmoved.htm">Mayan Calendar moment</a>, said Investors Business Daily. "<em>Normally, the media could be counted upon to sell Obama's version</em>," <a href="http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2013/02/obama_boxed_in_on_sequester.html">Thomas Lifson</a> thinks. "<em>But even the wizards of persuasion can't overcome the reality that downsizing has been a prominent part of organizational life across America, particularly among the MSM." </em>So if Republicans play their cards right and don't lose their nerve, they can win the PR battle this time. The stock market agrees, says <a href="http://spectator.org/archives/2013/02/28/stocks-support-sequester">Ross Kaminski</a>. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/half-full-report-030113/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5877" class="art-post art-article post-5877 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/taking-money-from-business-benefits-only-big-government/" rel="bookmark" title="TAKING MONEY FROM BUSINESS BENEFITS ONLY BIG GOVERNMENT">TAKING MONEY FROM BUSINESS BENEFITS ONLY BIG GOVERNMENT</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="10:25 am">February 27, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/rrahn/" title="View all posts by Richard Rahn">Richard Rahn</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> Can you name the worst tax? In recent weeks, there have been a slew of articles in major publications about how many multinational corporations have found legal ways to reduce their tax burdens by running some of their operations through low-tax jurisdictions. In response, those who love high taxes and big government demand that corporations pay more. Economists dislike the corporate income tax because it reduces productive labor and capital and is an additional tax on income that has already been (or will be) taxed. Politicians love the tax because it is largely invisible to most voters. Because of tax competition among countries, corporate tax rates have been dropping globally, resulting in the United States having the world's highest rate. Now the high-taxers are fighting back. They need to be stopped. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/taking-money-from-business-benefits-only-big-government/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5876" class="art-post art-article post-5876 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/president-chicken-little-obama-and-the-sequester/" rel="bookmark" title="PRESIDENT CHICKEN LITTLE OBAMA AND THE SEQUESTER">PRESIDENT CHICKEN LITTLE OBAMA AND THE SEQUESTER</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="10:18 am">February 27, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jkelly/" title="View all posts by Jack Kelly">Jack Kelly</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> Sequestration "will jeopardize our military readiness; it will eviscerate job-creating investments in education and energy and medical research," President <a href="http://blogs.wsj.com/washwire/2013/02/19/transcript-of-obamas-remarks-on-the-sequester/">Barack Hussein Obama</a> said at a news conference last week. "FBI agents will be furloughed. Federal prosecutors will have to close cases and let criminals go. Thousands of teachers and educators will be laid off." You wouldn't guess from his remarks that sequestration was <a href="http://hotair.com/archives/2013/02/23/woodward-why-is-obama-still-misleading-everyone-on-the-sequester/">Mr. Obama's idea</a>. It was a <a href="http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/wonkblog/wp/2012/09/14/the-sequester-explained/">poison pill</a> he proposed to resolve an impasse with Republicans on raising the ceiling on the national debt. He wanted to raise taxes to reduce the deficit.<span> </span>They wanted to trim spending. Sequestration kicked the can down the road. If no deal were made before March 1, 2013, then automatic spending "cuts" of up to $1.2 trillion would be made over 9 years. <span style="font-size: 12pt">Mr. Obama is frantically predicting the end of the world if these "cuts" kick in. We should be glad he is.</span> </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/president-chicken-little-obama-and-the-sequester/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5874" class="art-post art-article post-5874 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/our-tax-system-needs-dr-carsonaes-radical-surgery-cure/" rel="bookmark" title="OUR TAX SYSTEM NEEDS DR. CARSONâ€™S RADICAL SURGERY CURE">OUR TAX SYSTEM NEEDS DR. CARSONâ€™S RADICAL SURGERY CURE</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="6:50 am">February 22, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jkelly/" title="View all posts by Jack Kelly">Jack Kelly</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> The federal tax system should be replaced with a flat tax based on the Biblical obligation to tithe, says famed surgeon Benjamin Carson.<span> </span>"You make $10 billion, you put in a billion. You make $10, you put in $1." His <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wIC8tPHFBV4">speech</a> at the National Prayer Breakfast was a Youtube sensation, but even some conservatives are skeptical. Dr. Carson's argument for a flat tax is not persuasive, "given the complexities involved," said National Review Editor <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2013/02/carson-v-obama-87637.html">Rich Lowry</a>. We can't afford so sweeping a reform as Dr. Carson proposes, because innocents would suffer if the enormous distortions the tax system makes in the economy were removed, Mr. Lowry seems to say. I hope I'm reading him wrong, because that's nuts. Politicians created complexity in the tax code to camouflage costs and evade accountability.<span> </span>We shouldn't let them use the magnitude of the mess they've made as an excuse to block, delay, or water down reform. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/our-tax-system-needs-dr-carsonaes-radical-surgery-cure/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5872" class="art-post art-article post-5872 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-uncategorized" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/half-full-report-022213/" rel="bookmark" title="HALF-FULL REPORT 02/22/13">HALF-FULL REPORT 02/22/13</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="6:06 am">February 22, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by Dr. Jack Wheeler">Dr. Jack Wheeler</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> What a hornet's nest on the TTP Forum got stirred up by that Congressista's questioning of Social Security in <a href="content/view/5332/2/">The Traitor in the White House</a>. I guess some clarification is required. He meant it as a "teachable moment," a thought experiment to demonstrate that just as his conservative audience was determined no matter what to demand their Social Security payments, so is everyone else in America who's receiving some sort of government payout. He thus sees truly cutting government spending as a hopeless task. He was not questioning Social Security, and was quite interested - as were his two colleagues - in the concept of selling off federal lands (1/3 of the entire US) to pay owed SS benefits when I mentioned it. But his thought experiment backfired, both in his townhall meeting and the TTP Forum because of the visceral emotions surrounding SS. Here's my perspective. People have been conned by government scammers into thinking that SS taxes are somehow different from income or other taxes.<span> </span><em>All</em> the money taken by force or extortion by the federalies was earned by those from whom it was taken. Social Security is a government racket, a gigantic Ponzi Scheme. There is no Trust Fund.<span> </span>It does not exist. <em>Your money has been spent</em>. Further, <em>the purpose of Social Security is to make people dependent on government.</em> Even conservatives, most <em>especially</em> conservatives. I personally look at SS taxes as stolen and gone just like all others. Stealing money is what governments <em>do</em>, and SS money is no different. </p><span class="ecae-button ecae-buttonskin-white" style="text-align:left" > <a class="ecae-link" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/half-full-report-022213/"><span>Read more...</span></a></span></div></div> </article> <article id="post-5871" class="art-post art-article post-5871 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-c89-free-articles" style=""> <h2 class="art-postheader entry-title"><a href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/what-do-we-do-about-democrats-destroying-democracy/" rel="bookmark" title="WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT DEMOCRATS DESTROYING DEMOCRACY?">WHAT DO WE DO ABOUT DEMOCRATS DESTROYING DEMOCRACY?</a></h2> <div class="art-postheadericons art-metadata-icons"><span class="art-postdateicon"><span class="date">Published</span> <span class="entry-date updated" title="4:52 am">February 21, 2013</span></span> | <span class="art-postauthoricon"><span class="author">By</span> <span class="author vcard"><a class="url fn n" href="https://www.2thepointnews.com/author/jack/" title="View all posts by David McAlister">David McAlister</a></span></span></div> <div class="art-postcontent clearfix"><div class="ecae" style=""><p> The biggest problem we now face is the most basic of all: our elections are tainted, and our government is becoming more illegitimate each election cycle. Totalitarian control of our lives is just over the horizon. There are several concrete steps that can be taken to ensure fair elections, but Republicans on Capitol Hill are either too fearful or too corrupted themselves to propose a solution that would result in a legitimate government. I'm writing to ask TTPers what you think should be done. This week (2/19), Fox News headlined a story: <a href="http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2013/02/19/ohio-poll-worker-obama-supporter-investigated-for-potentially-voting-six-times/#content">Did An Obama Supporter Vote 6 Times?</a> This article represents the barest tip of the iceberg. We all know who is benefiting from the fraud, which gets more and more brazen every electoral cycle. Every politician who opposes rational and reasonable steps to prevent cheating and ensure honest elections deserves to be thrown out of the Capitol then prosecuted for knowingly enabling or perpetrating election fraud. Fraud is rampant and naked, especially in national elections. If it's not stopped -- and it can be -- you realize that we no longer have a legitimate government. 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