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Why the Individual Mandate Is Doomed

Jeff Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Norman

A majority of American taxpayers will be required to buy health insurance or pay a penalty starting in 2014 if the new healthcare law isn't overturned or revised. I predict it will be.

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Obama Administration Should Answer the Broccoli Question About Health Insurance Mandate

Jeff Norman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Jeff Norman

It's one thing for the federal government to believe it lacks authority to require us to buy broccoli, and another to assert that although it has such authority, it won't be exercised.

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Christian Leaders Scapegoat Gays on Marriage

Nathaniel Frank | Posted 05.25.2011

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Nathaniel Frank

In the new, anti-gay "Manhattan Declaration" scores of Christian signatories reveal the intellectual and moral bankruptcy of their obsessive persecution of gay people.

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