Saturday, December 15, 2018

Obamacare Ruled Unconstitutional, And Other Stories

Late yesterday, news broke out that a federal judge in Texas ruled the Affordable Care Act, a.k.a. Obamacare, is unconstitutional.  As it turns out, he ruled that the mandate to buy health insurance or pay a penalty is unconstitutional, and since the mandate is not severable from the rest of the law, the law itself must fall.  This ruling is the opposite of a SCOTUS decision a few years ago, in which Chief Justice Roberts ruled that the mandate is a tax, and thus within the powers of the Congress to create.

Read more at The Texas Tribune, NBC News, CNN, The New York Times and The Economist.
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In other stories:

From Townhall, why Obamacare enrollment has decreased.

From the Washington Examiner, some Republicans revive calls for a new healthcare law.

From The HillInterior Secretary Ryan Zinke has announced his resignation.

From The Federalisthow Mark Twain criticized adults using child characters.

From American Thinkeryes, voter fraud is real and here are a bunch of examples.






From Radio Poland, Poland grants asylum to a Norwegian woman who believed that the Norwegian government want to take her child away.  (The article contains a link to the site Nasz Dziennik, which name means "our daily", but the link doesn't function correctly.  After I did a bit of szukanie, I found that that the ND article is behind a paywall.)


From Sputnik International, two Russian bombers return from Venezuela.
















From The Times Of Israel, Bahrain agrees with Australia's decision.





From Mid-Day, an American man named Allah is charged with a hate crime against an Indian woman.  (Wouldn't calling yourself "Allah" be against some blasphemy law?)






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