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What ObamaCare Means to Me
Hannah Krening July 18, 2012
I’m a cancer survivor, having beaten the disease twelve years ago. When detected, my disease was more advanced than average for a victim my age. But because I was relatively young, I could withstand more aggressive treatment, and my doctor recommended that course. I also had good health insurance, so…
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No, Edolphus, Health Care is Not a “Right” or a “Privilege”
Ari Armstrong July 16, 2012
“Healthcare is a fundamental right, not a privilege,” writes New York Congressman Edolphus Towns. He offers no argument for this, but states merely, “This is what we learned last month when the United States Supreme Court upheld key provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act,” a.k.a. ObamaCare. Towns…
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Science vs. Environmentalism, Exhibit 372B
Craig Biddle July 12, 2012
The UK’s Mail Online reports: Rings in fossilised pine trees have proven that the world was much warmer than previously thought—and the earth has been slowly COOLING for 2,000 years. Measurements stretching back to 138BC prove that the Earth is slowly cooling due to changes in the distance between the…
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Higgs Boson Research: Testament to the Power—or the Crudeness—of the Human Mind?
Ari Armstrong July 8, 2012
The recent announcement that scientists found evidence consistent with the existence of the Higgs boson (a type of particle thought to give mass to other particles) is a testament to the efficacy of the human mind to discover the nature of reality. Why, then, do some describe the discovery in…
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ObamaCare Tax: A Sophistic Assault on the Rule of Law
Ari Armstrong June 30, 2012
Rob Natelson, who taught law for 30 years and wrote The Original Constitution, blasted the Supreme Court’s decision upholding the ObamaCare insurance mandate under the congressional taxing authority. Although I do not always agree with Natelson’s views on political matters, his comments here are spot on. When it takes effect…
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The Aftermath of the SCOTUS ObamaCare Ruling
Ari Armstrong June 29, 2012
What does the Supreme Court’s decision upholding ObamaCare mean for you? What does it mean for the future of the nation? Although volumes can and will be written about the decision and the law it addresses, a number of consequences stand out. The individual mandate violates moral rights. The ObamaCare…
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Supremes’ ObamaCare Ruling: Altruism In Politics
Ari Armstrong June 28, 2012
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court upheld the heart of ObamaCare: the “individual mandate” forcing people to purchase government-approved health insurance starting in 2014. Beyond the constitutional issues, this decision offers two major lessons, one political, the other, moral. The political lesson is that “ObamaCare,” while spearheaded by the…
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Institute for Justice Wins Victory in Bone-Marrow Compensation Case
Ari Armstrong June 27, 2012
On Monday the Institute for Justice (IJ) announced “a major legal victory for cancer patients and their families from across the nation.” U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder declined to seek Supreme Court review of a March 2012 decision of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that compensating most…
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Linux Creator Linus Torvalds Celebrates Rational Selfishness
Ari Armstrong June 24, 2012
How refreshing to see a successful innovator use the term selfishness appropriately—that is, to refer not to activity that harms others, but rather to activity that advances one’s own proper, rational self-interest. In a recent interview with BBC, Linus Torvalds, originator of the Linux operating system, explained why he regards…
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Laws Against Human Life and the Heroes Who Fight Them
Ari Armstrong June 8, 2012
It’s almost as though some politicians want to kill people. Certainly the political assault on medical freedom threatens people’s lives. Consider a couple recent news stories. John Graham writes for Forbes about ObamaCare’s “2.3 percent excise tax on medical devices,” a tax he describes as “a savage blow to innovation.”…