Recent Democrat Party legislative and legal actions opposing Obamacare or significant portions thereof.
The opposition is bi-partisan: Recent Democrat Party legislative and legal actions opposing Obamacare or significant portions thereof.
Year: 2012
Orbital Sciences hopes to put its Antares rocket on the launchpad in five weeks.
Fingers crossed: Orbital Sciences expects to put its Antares rocket on the launchpad for initial checkout in about five weeks.
Seven states filed a lawsuit today seeking to overturn Obama’s contraceptive mandate.
The wave builds: Seven states today filed a joint lawsuit, seeking to overturn Obama’s contraceptive mandate.
“This violation of the [First] Amendment is a threat to every American, regardless of religious faith,” Nebraska Attorney General Jon Bruning said in a news release. “We will not stand idly by while our constitutionally guaranteed liberties are discarded by an administration that has sworn to uphold them.”
The lawsuit also alleges the “practical effect” of the mandate “will force religious employers to drop health insurance coverage,” in order to avoid violating their religious beliefs.
“Obamacare’s latest mandate tramples the First Amendment’s freedom of religion and compels people of faith to act contrary to their convictions,” Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott said in a news release. “The very first amendment to our Constitution was intended to protect against this sort of government intrusion into our religious convictions.”
Golf Brooks – Senior Moments
An evening pause: Golf Brooks, recorded live at the Continental Country Club in Leesburg, Florida.
Germany’s $130B Solar Experiment Delays Global Warming by 23 hours!
Success! Germany’s $130 billion solar power subsidies has delayed global warming by 23 hours!
It gets worse: Because Germany is part of the European Union Emissions Trading System, the actual effect of extra solar panels in Germany leads to no CO2 reductions, because total emissions are already capped. Instead, the Germans simply allow other parts of the EU to emit more CO2. Germany’s solar panels have only made it cheaper for Portugal or Greece to use coal.
Scientists have found a way to produce an anti-corresion coating made of graphene only one atom thick.
Scientists have found a way to produce an anti-corresion coating made of graphene only one atom thick.
How to delete your Google browsing history in three simple steps
How to delete your Google browsing history in three simple steps.
The Great Gibson Guitar Raid … Months later, still no charges
The abuse of power: Months after its raid and confiscation of a half a million dollars worth of property from Gibson Guitars, the Obama Justice Department has still not filed any charges.
Reason.tv recently checked in with Gibson CEO Henry Juszkiewicz to see how the case has progressed. Turns out, the DOJ has filed no charges. That means Gibson hasn’t had its day in court to defend itself — and the government still has all that confiscated property.
Are we beginning to sense a pattern here with this administration and how it treats the citizens of the United States?
Fifteen questions the press would ask Barack Obama if he were a Republican
Fifteen questions the press would ask Barack Obama if he were a Republican.
I especially like the last three:
13) Why should the American people reelect you when your 10 year budget saddles America with more debt than all previous Presidents combined?
14) Your stimulus bill cost more in real dollars than the moon landing and the interstate highway system combined. Many prominent economists have concluded the stimulus plan was a total failure. What do we have to show for all of that money spent?
15) Members of your administration promised that the trillion dollar stimulus would keep unemployment under 8 percent. Instead, we’ve had 35+ months of 8% and above unemployment. Doesn’t that mean we wasted a trillion dollars on nothing?
These, as well as the other 12 questions, are all perfectly reasonable and are exactly the kinds of questions any good journalist would be itching to ask any elected official with the disastrous track record that Barack Obama has. Unfortunately, we don’t have very many good journalists in the White House press corp or on the major television/cable networks. Instead, what we have are “former” Democratic Party operatives like George Stephanopoulos, disguised as journalists whose only goal is to make Republicans look bad so that Democrats can get elected.
The many moods of Titan
A Baptist college has joined a growing list of schools and other organizations to sue the federal government over Obama’s healthcare mandates.
This wave is only beginning: A Baptist college has joined a growing list of schools and other organizations and filed suit against the federal government over Obama’s healthcare mandates.
Tracking the debris washed out to sea by last year’s tsunami in Japan.
Tracking the debris washed out to sea by last year’s tsunami in Japan.
A federal judge has struck down a Washington state law that required pharmacists to sell contraceptives
A federal judge has struck down a Washington state law that required pharmacists to sell contraceptives.
In his 48-page opinion, [the judge] noted that Washington permitted pharmacy owners to decide they won’t stock certain medications for any number of “secular reasons” – because they drugs are expensive, for example, or inconvenient to dispense, or because they simply don’t fit into the store’s business plan. Yet the rule did not allow pharmacists to assert a religious reason for keeping certain drugs off their shelves. “A pharmacy is permitted to refuse to stock oxycodone because it fears robbery, but the same pharmacy cannot refuse to stock Plan B because it objects on religious grounds,” the judge wrote. “Why are these reasons treated differently under the rules?” The judge also accused the state of enforcing the mandate selectively, noting that regulators had not opened cases against the many Catholic-affiliated pharmacies in the state that also refuse to dispense Plan B.
I would not be at all surprised if we find that Obama’s contraceptive mandate carries with it the same type of selective enforcement.
Two possible errors have been identified that might explain the faster than light neutrino results from last fall.
Two possible errors have been identified that might explain the faster than light neutrino results from CERN from last fall.
David McCullough – on George Washington
An evening pause: On George Washington’s birthday, an excerpt of a speech by David McCullough from September 27, 2005. As McCullough notes, even King George III himself knew the measure of the man. “He will be the greatest man in the world.”
What Would Happen If You Shot a Gun In Space?
Asking the important questions: What would happen if you shot a gun in space?
The fundamental design flaw of all of Tesla Motors’ electric cars.
The fundamental design flaw of all of Tesla Motors’ electric cars.
A Tesla Roadster that is simply parked without being plugged in will eventually become a “brick”. The parasitic load from the car’s always-on subsystems continually drains the battery and if the battery’s charge is ever totally depleted, it is essentially destroyed. Complete discharge can happen even when the car is plugged in if it isn’t receiving sufficient current to charge, which can be caused by something as simple as using an extension cord. After battery death, the car is completely inoperable. At least in the case of the Tesla Roadster, it’s not even possible to enable tow mode, meaning the wheels will not turn and the vehicle cannot be pushed nor transported to a repair facility by traditional means.
This problem could destroy the company, which, believe it or not, might actually have a negative effect on the American space program! Elon Musk, the man behind SpaceX and the Falcon 9 rocket and the Dragon capsule is also the CEO of Tesla. If Tesla goes down, one wonders if that could have an impact on SpaceX’s effort to get Americans into space.
A comic book collection sold for $3.5 million at an auction today in New York.
Holey Moley! That comic book collection sold for $3.5 million at an auction today in New York.
In its final decision an Iranian court has sentenced a Christian pastor to death for leaving Islam.
More Islamic tolerance: In its final decision an Iranian court has sentenced a Christian pastor to death for leaving Islam.
A fourteen year old girl has been swamped with death threats after testifying before the Maryland state legislature in opposition to gay marriage.
Leftwing civility: A fourteen year old girl has been swamped with death threats after testifying before the Maryland state legislature in opposition to gay marriage. A handful of examples:
- “And now everyone knows her name, so hopefully she will feel what its like to be harassed and bullied…” reads a comment posted on LGBTNation.com
- From YouTube: “My god I hate people like this. Most (not all) Americans are [expletive] retards. If I ever see this girl, I will kill her. That’s a promise.”
- Other entries: “Her parents should be exterminated.”
- “The [sic] is why abortion must stay legal – to prevent little bigots like this from being Born…”
- “Kill this child and his [sic] parent, for my 11 birthday would be a wonderful gift, thanks.”
The issue here is not gay marriage, but the threatening, hateful behavior of too many of those who support it. She speaks out in disagreement, and the response isn’t to debate the point but to try to shut her up, in any way possible.