Obamacare is one of the most reviled pieces of legislation ever passed, yet Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius claims to have been caught off guard by the ongoing opposition to the dreaded law. It’s as if the opposition…
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Cities And States Racking Up Debt With No Say From The Taxpayers
by Lonely Conservative • • 14 Comments
The Wall Street Journal has an alarming op-ed about the state of our cities and states. They are racking up enormous debts – mostly obligations to public employees – with little or no say from the taxpayers. It’s happening almost…
26 States Refuse To Implement Obamacare Exchanges
by Lonely Conservative • • 2 Comments
Yesterday was the deadline for states to opt to create health insurance exchanges under Obamacare, and 26 states have declined, meaning the federal government will have to do it. According to Investors Business Daily, this will be an “administrative nightmare”…
Obama To Punish States That Don’t Set Up Health Insurance Exchanges
by Lonely Conservative • • 7 Comments
There are seventeen states that are not going to comply with Obamacare and set up health insurance exchanges. The Obama administration isn’t happy about this so they will punish those states by instituting a surcharge for any policies sold through…
Oklahoma Joins States Not Implementing Obamacare Exchanges
by Lonely Conservative • • 11 Comments
Oklahoma has joined the growing list of states that will not be implementing the Obamacare exchanges for the federal government. According to The Hill, the state won’t be participating in the expensive Medicaid expansion, either. Gov. Mary Fallin said Monday…
HHS Again Extends Deadline For States To Set Up Health Insurance Exchanges
by Lonely Conservative • • 2 Comments
HHS Kathleen Sebelius is going to have one big headache when she finds out how many Republican governors aren’t going to go along with the administration and set up health insurance exchanges. She obviously knows what a hassle it’s going…
Secession Petitions Now Filed By Citizens In Every State
by Lonely Conservative • • 13 Comments
Do I think any of the states will secede from the union? No, I don’t. But I like that citizens are raising their voices and letting Obama know in no uncertain terms that he is governing without their consent. The…
Interesting – Obama Lost In Every State With Voter ID Laws? – Updated
by Lonely Conservative • • 16 Comments
I’m sure this is just a strange coincidence. Was the election stolen? Remember all those lawsuits by Democrats demanding that any voter identification laws be repealed. Well, now we know why they filed them. They needed to steal the vote…
$25 Billion Foreclosure Settlement Goes To State Coffers Rather Than Troubled Homeowners
by Lonely Conservative • • 12 Comments
Do you remember that $25 billion settlement against banks that was supposed to help troubled homeowners avoid foreclosure? Well, it didn’t do much for homeowners, but it did help states with bloated budgets. Researchers Andrew Jakabovics and William McHale took…
Texas Cut From Exit Polls, But Not New York, Or California?
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
I saw earlier the that the AP and networks are cutting exit polling in a number of states but I wasn’t able to look into it at the time. It had slipped my mind until Charles B sent me the…
For States, Fiscal Reality is Knocking at the Door
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
Walter Russell Mead has written about the “blue state model” of governance which was preserved by politicians in both parties for decades. The private sector reformed over the past twenty years or so, moving away from defined-benefit pension plans to…
Need a Job? Move to a Red State
by Lonely Conservative • • 1 Comment
Here’s a fun fact. Every state that elected a Republican governor in 2010 saw its unemployment rate drop, even in this dismal Obama economy. In 2010, influenced by the Tea Party and its focus on fiscal issues, 17 states elected…
Ruh-Roh – States and Municipalities to Be Held to Higher Accounting Standards
by Lonely Conservative • • 3 Comments
This isn’t good. The cozy relationship public employee unions have had with politicians is coming back to bite today’s politicians, while bankrupting the taxpayers. New accounting rules are likely to show that public pension plans could face hundreds of billions…
Democrat Party Loses Nearly One Million Voters in Battleground States
by Lonely Conservative • • 8 Comments
It’s looking like the captain of class warfare’s campaign against capitalism, free-markets and liberty isn’t working as planned. According to ABC News, the Democrat Party in key battleground states has lost nearly one million registered voters. I guess they’ve had…