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A formerly successful Wall Street trader apparently committed suicide in court by swallowing a pill after he was found guilty of committing arson. Michael James Marin, who owned a $3.5 million Biltmore Estates mansion in Phoenix that burned to the ground, heard the

With Chief Justice John Roberts’ unthinkable decision to uphold Obamacare yesterday, all focus now shifts to repeal for conservatives. In order to repeal Obamacare, two things must happen: Republicans must retake the White House, and they must retake the Senate.

One day after the historic vote that held Attorney General Eric Holder to be in criminal contempt of Congress, Darrell Issa (R-CA) revealed details of secret wiretap applications from the Justice Department that implicates them even more in the “Fast

Throughout the GOP primary season, Mitt Romney made the argument that Romneycare was different from Obamacare because what Romney could do at the state level with Romneycare when he was governor of Massachusetts, Obama could not do at the national

Conservatives took a two-by-four across the brow Thursday morning, dazed by the Court’s ruling on Obamacare.  Some are wailing and gnashing their teeth, others calling Cheif Justice Roberts a “traitor,” without merit.  OK, stop.  This actually is a positive for

At the latest stop on the Americans for Prosperity “Real Facts. Real Solutions.” Bus Tour in Virginia Beach, VA, the Virginia Democrat party organized protestors to support their candidate for Senate, former Governor Tim Kaine (D). A few in the

The first poll numbers released on yesterday’s Obamacare decision show that the public opposes the ruling by Chief Justice John Roberts that the law is constitutional. SurveyUSA polls of adults in Kansas, Florida and California show widespread opposition to the

The TEA (Taxed Enough Already) Party movement formed in response to the federal government’s bipartisan spending problem. The movement was jolted and turned into the force it now is because of President Barack Obama’s overreach on Obamacare and his proposals

As news broke that the Supreme Court had upheld Obamacare, reactions were mixed. Democrat House Members rejoiced and Obama did a victory dance, while rank and file conservatives took a step back and shook their heads in disbelief. Then as

g Speaker John Boehner: “Now I don’t take this matter lightly, and I frankly hoped it would never come to this. The House’s focus is on jobs and on the economy. But no Justice Department is above the law and

When the Supreme Court upheld the individual mandate and Obamacare by labeling the individual mandate a tax, the U.S. Senate became that much more important and a battleground for conservatives who want to repeal Obamacare. In the runoff for the

While we were all debating the cost to our liberty due to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare), we were ignoring the cost to our pockets.  If there ever was a reason for bipartisan rage about this law,

When news that the Supreme Court–or more pointedly, Chief Justice John Roberts–deemed ObamaScare “constitutional”, two words came to mind: Tea Party. Tea Partiers coalesced from a diverse spectrum of people: black, white, Hispanic, Asian, middle class, upper middle class, disillusioned

Conservatives who are trying to salvage a little “hope and change” from Chief Justice John Roberts’s disastrous ruling in the Obamacare case yesterday argue that the limits the Court placed on the Commerce Clause and the power of the federal

#1: The charge that the Roberts Court is a right-of-center court has been proven wrong in dramatic fashion.  It’s not just the ObamaCare decision that can be characterized as liberal. In this term alone, the Court invalidated most of the

I was sitting in KO’s restaurant today, watching news about the Supreme Court’s Obamacare decision scroll across the TV screen when an Obama re-election commercial came on. The commercial, which had clearly been crafted without any thought to the Obamacare

“Still a BFD …” is what President Barack Obama’s twitter handle tweeted out last night.  Seriously.  Obama’s campaign proverbially spiked the football in light of Obamacare being held up by the Supreme Court, marketing a t-shirt that says “Still a

(AP) Congress poised to act on highways, student loansBy JOAN LOWYAssociated PressWASHINGTONAfter being derided as a “do-nothing” Congress, the House and Senate were poised to vote on a massive legislative package that overhauls highway and transit programs, salvages an estimated

(AP) Tepid economic growth weighs on US job marketBy CHRISTOPHER S. RUGABER and MARTIN CRUTSINGERAP Economics WritersWASHINGTONThe U.S. economy is growing too slowly to pull the job market out of a slump, according to the latest data that suggest June