By David Bozeman — The intellectual heavy lifting of maintaining meaningful political discourse in America is done mostly by conservatives.  And sometimes they drop the ball, which is excusable given that the left dominates news dissemination and entertainment.  The leftist currency is not rational debate […]

A certain tax law might or might not apply with ObamaCare. The Supreme Court is hearing arguments on this. ObamaCareWatcher.org’s John Vinci explains this complicated argument.

Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito lit up the court room today when he questioned Solicitor General Don Verrilli about whether the penalty for failing to purchase health care under the ObamaCare mandate was a tax. Here is the exchange: JUSTICE ALITO: General Verrilli, today you […]

NRD Editor’s Note: We will be updating this post throughout the day with new information–so stay tuned! The oral arguments for day 1 of the ObamaCare Supreme Court hearing have come to a close. Click here to hear the first day’s SCOTUS arguments . Here is some background on the lawyer’s going in front […]

By Bill Wilson — This is one of the most important weeks in the national debate over Obamacare. The oral arguments at the Supreme Court over these three days will give valuable insight into what many of the justices’ thinking on the important issues surrounding the law […]

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To receive the Must Reads in your inbox, click here ! Good Monday morning, Here are the Must Reads according to Adam Bitely : Two years of ObamaCare and we’re still trying to find out what’s in it The 4 best legal arguments against ObamaCare If the mandate is overturned, ObamaCare will collapse The Constitution vs. ObamaCare Left tries to discredit ObamaCare ruling–in advance Howard Dean predicts ObamaCare mandate will be overturned What if the economy grows slower than expected? Austerity or stimulus? What we need is growth Obama: “After my election I have more flexibility” Jeb Bush and Republican amnesia Is the Ex-Im bank a profit opportunity? Axe the Ex-Im bank!

By Bill Wilson — If nothing changes about our current spending trajectory and Barack Obama gets everything he what he wants out of Congress this year in his budget, the national debt will increase $10 trillion over the next decade — to $25.9 trillion by 2022. What’s alarming about this number is that it could be even higher. […]

By Frank McCaffrey — According to the “Wall Street Journal,” student loan debt has topped $1 trillion in the U.S. Not to mention the fact that youth unemployment is high. Yet, the Obama re-election campaign is still working to rally youth voters.

By Rebecca DiFede — On Tuesday, the Labor Department reported that the unemployment rate for U.S. veterans who’ve served during the wars in the Middle East increased last year to 12.1 percent, up from 11.5 percent in 2010 . President Obama has pledged to bring home from Afghanistan 123,900 troops by fiscal year 2017, and this […]