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Activism

Scott Holleran — Sat, 23 Mar 2013 06:56:07 +0000

From the day I first became an activist – when my best friend told me that his family’s home was being seized by our hometown government when we were in the third grade (as I recently wrote about here) to this black day in our nation’s history, March 23, which marks three long years of [...]

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The ObamaCare Ruling

Scott Holleran — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 15:20:26 +0000

Today is another sad day for our dying America: the Supreme Court has upheld ObamaCare, according to most reports. But it should not be a surprising day for Americans, not to those who choose to think. Anyone could have seen this coming. Chief Justice John Roberts, a conservative whom most on the right supported when [...]

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Malcolm Wallop Dies

Scott Holleran — Wed, 14 Sep 2011 22:22:46 +0000

Associated Press reports from Cheyenne, Wyoming, that Western pioneer descendant and former Wyoming U.S. Sen. Malcolm Wallop has died at age 78. The anti-Communist Republican, who served in the Senate for 18 years, is the first elected official to propose space-based missile defense, which became part of the Strategic Defense Initiative. But I remember Sen. [...]

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Professor Barnett on ObamaCare Court Ruling

Scott Holleran — Thu, 08 Sep 2011 22:17:17 +0000

When the Richmond, Virginia-based Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals issued its ruling against the state of Virginia’s case against ObamaCare this morning, I asked one of the nation’s most knowledgeable legal scholars, Georgetown law professor Randy Barnett, whom I interviewed earlier this year, for a statement. Dr. Barnett responded: “For a case that some [...]

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Remembering Betty Ford

Scott Holleran — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 07:00:56 +0000

“Children are a blessing, not a duty,” Betty Ford, who will be memorialized today in Palm Desert, California, famously said in one of many candid comments. In another comment for publication, she told a magazine that she had sex with her husband, the President, “as often as possible.” The late former First Lady’s plain, insistent [...]

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Obama Shakes Down Doctors

Scott Holleran — Mon, 27 Jun 2011 08:36:06 +0000

The Obama administration is initiating a secret government operation investigating doctors in private practice, according to the New York Times in its Sunday, June 26 edition. The article reports that, according to government documents obtained from Obama administration officials, government agents posing as patients “will call medical practices and ask if doctors are accepting new [...]

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Interview: Randy Barnett on ObamaCare

Scott Holleran — Thu, 23 Jun 2011 17:07:25 +0000

Law professor Randy Barnett, who has argued before the Supreme Court, is described by Forbes as the legal scholar “who laid the intellectual groundwork for the surprisingly effective legal attacks on ObamaCare by state attorneys general.” Barnett, the Carmack Waterhouse Professor of Legal Theory at the Georgetown University Law Center, where he teaches contracts and [...]

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House of Representatives Votes to Kill ObamaCare

Scott Holleran — Thu, 20 Jan 2011 02:39:54 +0000

For the first time in decades, every American can be proud of an act Congress: the House of Representatives voted today for an historic rejection of a major new organ for government control of our lives. The House voted 245 to 189 to undo what has been done to our nation’s medical and health insurance [...]

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Update on Effort to Repeal and Reject ObamaCare

Scott Holleran — Wed, 12 Jan 2011 22:53:56 +0000

The Congressional effort to repeal ObamaCare was postponed by the cowardly Republicans in the House of Representatives after a mass murder in Tucson, Arizona, which is leading to another assault on freedom of speech. But, according to an interactive map on Health Care Lawsuits, the national lawsuit to stop ObamaCare has recently gained several new [...]

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Dr. Dean Edell Retires

Scott Holleran — Wed, 29 Dec 2010 09:35:04 +0000

Dr. Dean Edell, whom I met and interviewed in 2001, recently announced that he has retired from talk radio. His voice of reason, which generally favored facts, science and free choice in medicine, will be seriously missed. Read my interview with Dr. Dean about his book Eat, Drink and Be Merry and his thoughts on [...]

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