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COULTER: MY FRIEND'S SISTER DIED BECAUSE OF OBAMACARE

 

Andrew Johnson summarizes Coulter's comments:

Over the weekend, Ann Coulter outlined what she considered a “real-world consequence” of Obamacare by sharing a personal anecdote. Recently, one of her friend’s sisters died after not seeking treatment for a fever because had lost her health insurance.

After her provider pulled out of her state due to the health-care law, she held off getting her ailment checked out until she went in to septic shock last Thursday. On Saturday, Coulter learned that she had died. “I got up to my hotel room after the speech and my friend sent me an e-mail saying, ‘My sister died from Obamacare,’” Coulter said on Fox & Friends.

“We knew this would happen,” she continued, adding that her friend encouraged her to tell the story of her sister. ”It’s a horrible story and people need to know about these stories.”

SUPREME COURT WILL HEAR HOBBY LOBBY'S RELIGIOUS FREEDOM OBJECTIONS TO OBAMACARE

Good!  Mark Sherman at Breitbart reports:  (HT: Drudge)

The Supreme Court agreed Tuesday to referee another dispute over President Barack Obama's health care law, whether businesses can use religious objections to escape a requirement to cover birth control for employees.

The justices said they will take up an issue that has divided the lower courts in the face of roughly 40 lawsuits from for-profit companies asking to be spared from having to cover some or all forms of contraception.

The court will consider two cases. One involves Hobby Lobby Inc., an Oklahoma City-based arts and crafts chain with 13,000 full-time employees. Hobby Lobby won in the lower courts.

The other case is an appeal from Conestoga Wood Specialties Corp., a Pennsylvania company that employs 950 people in making wood cabinets. Lower courts rejected the company's claims.

The court said the cases will be combined for arguments, probably in late March. A decision should come by late June.

The cases center on a provision of the health care law that requires most employers that offer health insurance to their workers to provide a range of preventive health benefits, including contraception.

In both instances, the Christian families that own the companies say that insuring some forms of contraception violates their religious beliefs.  [more . . .]

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   ** William Kristol - Israel Will Fight   Crunch time approaches.  Kristol thinks Israel will fight.   (HT: Drudge)

   ** - Lowry: Revisionist History of JFK Assassination ‘More Useful Politically’ to Democrats (Video) How is it that the "right wing" is blamed for a murder committed by a Communist?

  ** - Fund: Nuclear Option ‘Expands the Pool of What Kind of Radical Liberals’ Obama Can Nominate (Video)

And yet the advertisers on MSNBC are all major corporate sponsors — as opposed to the advertisers on Fox News, which in large part are smaller businesses, despite the channel's high ratings.

Leftist garbage is saleable and acceptable in a world dominated by conservatives who refuse to fight back. The media portray Fox News and MSNBC as mirror images of one another, but that's clearly false — the lineup of Fox News has nothing like the disgusting material regularly emanating from MSNBC. But Fox News is the channel regularly subjected to boycotts. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/commentary/ben-shapiro/leftist-garbage-msnbc#sthash.AQdfqajB.dpuf

And yet the advertisers on MSNBC are all major corporate sponsors — as opposed to the advertisers on Fox News, which in large part are smaller businesses, despite the channel's high ratings.

Leftist garbage is saleable and acceptable in a world dominated by conservatives who refuse to fight back. The media portray Fox News and MSNBC as mirror images of one another, but that's clearly false — the lineup of Fox News has nothing like the disgusting material regularly emanating from MSNBC. But Fox News is the channel regularly subjected to boycotts. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/commentary/ben-shapiro/leftist-garbage-msnbc#sthash.AQdfqajB.dpuf

And yet the advertisers on MSNBC are all major corporate sponsors — as opposed to the advertisers on Fox News, which in large part are smaller businesses, despite the channel's high ratings.

Leftist garbage is saleable and acceptable in a world dominated by conservatives who refuse to fight back. The media portray Fox News and MSNBC as mirror images of one another, but that's clearly false — the lineup of Fox News has nothing like the disgusting material regularly emanating from MSNBC. But Fox News is the channel regularly subjected to boycotts. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/commentary/ben-shapiro/leftist-garbage-msnbc#sthash.AQdfqajB.dpuf

nd yet the advertisers on MSNBC are all major corporate sponsors — as opposed to the advertisers on Fox News, which in large part are smaller businesses, despite the channel's high ratings.

Leftist garbage is saleable and acceptable in a world dominated by conservatives who refuse to fight back. The media portray Fox News and MSNBC as mirror images of one another, but that's clearly false — the lineup of Fox News has nothing like the disgusting material regularly emanating from MSNBC. But Fox News is the channel regularly subjected to boycotts. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/commentary/ben-shapiro/leftist-garbage-msnbc#sthash.AQdfqajB.dpuf

nd yet the advertisers on MSNBC are all major corporate sponsors — as opposed to the advertisers on Fox News, which in large part are smaller businesses, despite the channel's high ratings.

Leftist garbage is saleable and acceptable in a world dominated by conservatives who refuse to fight back. The media portray Fox News and MSNBC as mirror images of one another, but that's clearly false — the lineup of Fox News has nothing like the disgusting material regularly emanating from MSNBC. But Fox News is the channel regularly subjected to boycotts. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/commentary/ben-shapiro/leftist-garbage-msnbc#sthash.AQdfqajB.dpuf

nd yet the advertisers on MSNBC are all major corporate sponsors — as opposed to the advertisers on Fox News, which in large part are smaller businesses, despite the channel's high ratings.

Leftist garbage is saleable and acceptable in a world dominated by conservatives who refuse to fight back. The media portray Fox News and MSNBC as mirror images of one another, but that's clearly false — the lineup of Fox News has nothing like the disgusting material regularly emanating from MSNBC. But Fox News is the channel regularly subjected to boycotts. - See more at: http://cnsnews.com/commentary/ben-shapiro/leftist-garbage-msnbc#sthash.AQdfqajB.dpuf

QUICK TAKE - ON OBAMACARE

Mark Steyn ends his article, "Worse Is the New Normal," with the following observation:

Obamacare is something new in American life: the creation of a massive bureaucracy charged with downsizing you — to a world of fewer doctors, higher premiums, lousier care, more debt, fewer jobs, smaller houses, smaller cars, smaller, fewer, less; a world where worse is the new normal...

George Orwell, after attending a meeting of impoverished but passive miners, remarked sadly that “there is no turbulence left in England.” The Democrats, and much of the Republican establishment, have made a bet that there is no turbulence left in America, and the citizenry will stand mute before Obamacare’s wrecking ball. Unless they’re willing to accept a worse life for their children and grandchildren, middle-class Americans need to prove them wrong.

SEN TED CRUZ - CONSERVATIVE CONVICTION ON DISPLAY

Passionate conservative conviction is rare.  Cruz is about attacking pernicious left-wing ideas and ideology, though the liberal press will try to divert attention and make it about Cruz.  Here's the conclusion of Sen. Ted Cruz's 21 hour speech on the Senate floor:

 

Cruz deserves enormous credit.  After he left the Senate floor, he talked with Rush Limbaugh. (Transcript)  Ann Coulter says Cruz control should be standard on GOP models. 

OBAMACARE FORCES RESTAURANTS TO CUT EMPLOYEES AND STOP EXPANSION

From Family Research Council:

It looks like voters aren't the only ones who resent ObamaCare. The restaurant industry can't stomach the health care law either. In a long piece for the Wall Street Journal, chains from Quiznos to Dunkin' Donuts talk about how devastating ObamaCare is to business. Several franchise owners had to put their plans for expansion on hold after 2010, when Congress passed the monstrous law. With the burden of covering more employees (or facing penalties), some chains are either dropping health care options--or employees. Judy Nichols, who operates a Papa John's in Texas, says she has two options. "I can stop offering coverage and pay the $2,000 fine, or I could keep my number of staff under 50 so the mandate doesn't apply. ObamaCare is making me think about cutting jobs instead." At McDonald's, stores are bracing for a $10,000-$30,000 hit at each of its 14,000 stores.

Several company heads converged on Congress last week to complain, but many fear it may be too late. Papa John's CEO John Schnatter says his business has no choice but to pass the costs on to customers. The company is planning to raise prices on pizza, which is just a preview of things to come in other restaurants--most of which are already struggling with the dip in sales. Unfortunately, this is a classic study in the effects of big government. No matter how you slice it, the more Washington grows, the less our economy can.