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• Is it OK for Congress to mandate that all Americans must purchase health insurance?

  Mon Dec 13, 2010
  • Article I Sec. 8 states that Congress shall have power to "regulate Commerce...among the several States," not mandate it. Kudos to Hudson.

• Wall Street CEOs defend pay practices

  Wed Jan 13, 2010
  • The commission will write the report with the conclusion that the financial crisis was the fault of greedy bankers and mortgage brokers, when it was the fault of greedy people instead. After all, no one is forced to buy a home with money they don't have. It's a choice.

• Republicans blast 'bait and switch' health bill

  Thu Nov 19, 2009
  • Did Reid think before he spoke when he said that this bill would save Medicare when it reduces funding to it by $354 billion? Reduce the deficit by $130 billion over 10 years? What a joke! That's only 13 billion a year deficit reduction, which is chump change to the gooberment.

• Judge: Corps' failure led to Katrina flooding

  Wed Nov 18, 2009
  • This is coming from people that choose to live in a place where you have to look UP to see sea level. Well put, Joeyvco.

• Baucus changes health bill over Dem concerns

  Mon Sep 21, 2009
  • Health insurance for every American will not solve the health care catastrophe. As it's been said before, there will not be a perfect bill. The medical establishment stays in business when people are sick, not healthy. One prescription opens the floodgate for a cabinet full of pill bottles.

• Baucus changes health bill over Dem concerns

  Mon Sep 21, 2009
  • Health insurance for every American will not solve the health care catastrophe. As it's been said before, there will not be a perfect bill. The medical establishment stays in business when people are sick, not healthy. One prescription opens the floodgate for a cabinet full of pill bottles.

• Clock ticking on bipartisan health compromise

  Tue Sep 8, 2009
  • If people had the money to get health insurance, they would get it! Baucus and his plan can go jump in a lake. What's next, mandatory pet insurance? The Colonel is right: Why can't they leave us alone?

• Obama's health care push faces daunting odds

  Tue May 12, 2009
  • Since when is having health insurance a right in this country? Last time I checked it wasn't put into the Constitution. By proposing this type of comprehensive reform, Congress is just asking for trouble.

• Senators weigh tax hikes to pay for health care

  Tue May 12, 2009
  • Chalk up one more vote for the entitlement mentality in this nation of crumbling principles and rising moral relativism. If you want insurance, you foot the bill. If you can't, ask anyone but the government for help. It is not a charity.