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“IRS: Cheapest Obamacare Plan Will Be $20,000 Per Family”

So you see, when Obama said that the price of your policies will go down and that those who like the coverage they have will be able to keep it, what he really meant — and one can forgive him for the inexactitude of his language, leading to his having been taken out of context, probably by Bush — was “fuck you, suckers.” In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the

February fundraiser begins today [sticky; new posts will appear below; updated; Tuesday update]

— Which just happens to be my birthday, as well.  Yay, me! Now, aging generally puts me in a foul mood, I won’t lie.  But this past year saw the birth of my second boy and the continued growth of pride I feel in my first, so I can’t feel anything but joy today, despite my determination to feel really shitty — not only because I’m getting older, but because

Cheapest ObamaCare plan: $20,000 a year [Darleen Click]

So says the IRS In a final regulation issued Wednesday, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) assumed that under Obamacare the cheapest health insurance plan available in 2016 for a family will cost $20,000 for the year. Under Obamacare, Americans will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty to the IRS. The IRS’s assumption that the cheapest plan for family will cost $20,000 per year is found in

“Colorado GOP bill would nullify possible federal gun limits”

This is how every state should be acting.  Unfortunately, we have in Colorado a Mayor who has glommed onto Mayor Bloomberg’s line of thinking — and an “educated” urban elite that has migrated here like locusts from liberal states they’ve already destroyed — so I don’t hold out much hope for passage: In an effort to stave off firearms restrictions being handed down from Washington, state Republicans have presented a

Things I learned today

On the IRS building in New Carrollton, MD, etched into one of the pillars, is this quote from Civil Rights leader Barbara Jordan: The Bill of Rights was not ordained by Nature or God. It’s very human, very fragile. This is of course a straightforward perversion of the claims made for our founding — and is at heart a sad reminder that the tyranny of men is held off only

If Ezra Klein were any more stupid we’d have to elect him to public office

I mean, honestly. It’s like they’re not even trying any more.  Klein, “Government is hurting the economy — by spending too little”. Now, ordinarily, this is the place where you’d find an extended quote from the linked piece , followed by my rebuttal of whatever “progressive” argument it strains to make.  But I’ve come to conclude that my time is just too precious to waste on these kinds of rhetorical

Stalinesque

That’s the contemporary leftist intelligentsia summed up in a single word. Sure, they’ll protest, become sneeringly indignant and makes a show of histrionic outrage when you point out that their current attempts to label gun-rights activists “crazy” is quite clearly just that, Stalinesque — and creates the very Catch-22 that they’ve long desired, namely, that to disagree with the State (when it’s run by progressives, that is; when the State

“A Debate: The Future of Firearms Laws in the U.S. “

“On Tuesday, January 29, 2013 at Cornell Law School, Alan Gura, a partner in Gura & Possessky P.L.L.C., and Michael Dorf, the Robert S. Stevens Professor of Law debated the 2nd Amendment and state gun control laws. Professor Dorf is a constitutional law expert who formerly served as a law clerk for Supreme Court Justice Anthony Kennedy. Mr. Gura, a Cornell University undergraduate alumnus, successfully argued the landmark 2nd Amendment

ZOMG!!11!1! Hot weather causes gun violence!! [Darleen Click]

Just as everyone has been convinced, in Jeff’s earlier post, that the writer who believes Chicago must have a lesser crime because of tougher gun laws was engaging in parody, along comes Christie Hefner to knock that into doubt as she seriously posits that Chicago has a higher murder rate than New York because of climate change. “Yes, last year we hit a record number of murders from guns [in

SHOCKER: public support for “assault weapons” ban tracks closely with public ignorance over what an “assault weapon” is

Jacob Sullum, Reason: Although arbitrary distinctions are a defining characteristic of “assault weapon” bans, recent polls indicate that most Americans support them. New survey data suggest one possible explanation: Most Americans don’t know what “assault weapons” are. Feinstein’s bill would ban “157 dangerous military-style assault weapons” by name, along with other guns that meet certain criteria. A rifle is considered an “assault weapon,” for example, if it has a detachable