From Townhall.com: Reports are surfacing that federal judge Roger Vinson has issued a ruling that declares at least one element of Obamacare to be unconstitutional.  The full ruling is expected to be released within the hour.  This suit challenging the new law was brought by 26 states: U.S. District Judge Roger Vinson’s ruling will be the biggest judicial [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Today’s decision by Judge Vinson is another stinging defeat for the administration in its defense of Obamacare. Defenders of the health care bill had tried to paint any legal challenge as “frivolous.”  When then-Speaker Pelosi was asked by a reporter “where specifically does the Constitution grant Congress the authority to enact an [...]

From Prison Planet: Obama decries Internet shut-down in Egypt while his own administration prepares to enact same draconian powers to crush dissent during times of political upheaval in America Paul Joseph Watson Prison Planet.com Monday, January 31, 2011 The Obama administration is busy attempting to pass legislation that would give the President a kill switch [...]

From CNS News: Former U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations John Bolton said Friday that President Barack Obama “basically doesn’t care about” foreign affairs, considering them ancillary to his domestic agenda. He said he thinks Obama’s view of the United States’ role in the world is comparable to that of failed presidential candidate Michael Dukakis. [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Last Thursday, Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner sent a letter extolling the impact of Obamacare on small business. Geithner touted small business tax credits and the creation of health insurance exchanges as ways to enable a greater number of employers to offer health benefits. But reality tells a different story. A day [...]

From CNS News: Three additional locals of the Service Employees International Union (SEIU)–an organization whose political action committee spent $27 million in independent expenditures promoting Barack Obama’s 2008 presidential campaign–received one-year waivers exempting them from complying with a provision in the new health care law. That brings to six the total number of SEIU locals that have received waivers [...]

From CNS News: The Obama administration has granted one-year waivers to 28 separate local chapters of the United Food and Commercial Workers Union (UFCW), exempting them from a requirement under the new health care law that bans annual limits on what insurance plans will pay for medical coverage. The UFCW’s political action committee spent $673,309 in [...]

From CNS News: The United Federation of Teachers (UFT), the union representing New York  City’s public school teachers, is the largest beneficiary of waivers from some of the requirements under the new health care law, according to the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). The UFT is a chapter of the American Federation of [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Last week, The Washington Post pointed out one near-fatal flaw to Obama’s plans for subsidizing green energy and electric cars: snowstorms. On Wednesday a snowstorm hit D.C. commuters harder than usual, causing gridlock on the road and dragging a normally 20-minute commute into, in some cases, over six hours as people crowded the [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: Hundreds of Egyptians determined to drive President Hosni Mubarak from power spent all last night in Tahrir Square to keep the military from taking over the plaza. Today marks the seventh day of unrest in Egypt as the U.S. State Department began chartering evacuation flights for thousands of U.S. citizens stranded in [...]

From Michelle Malkin: In spite of the woeful state of education in many areas of the country, there are still reasons to be encouraged. President Obama outlined one such example in his State of the Union speech last week: When President Barack Obama spotlighted a successful school in his State of the Union speech, he picked [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: From the outset of the Obama presidency and the emergence of the Obama Doctrine, the similarities between this Administration and that of Jimmy Carter have been striking. Like Obama, Carter trumpeted soft power and international institutions as the means to solve the most perplexing foreign policy problems. The programs of both Presidents hinged [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The Middle East was meant to be the crowning achievement of the Obama Doctrine. Once in the White House, President Obama focused laser-like on a “charm offensive” with Iran. When voices rose against the regime in Tehran in the wake of a disputed national election, Obama offered virtually no support for the cries [...]

From Newsmax.com: Congressional investigators are demanding to know what criteria the Obama administration used to grant 733 healthcare-reform waivers on insurance plans covering more than 2 million Americans. The inquiry comes amidst allegations that waivers are being granted to reward political supporters, such as unions, or to avoid the spectacle of large numbers of Americans [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The final version of the Interim Report by the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights on the investigation of the New Black Panther Party voter intimidation case was released yesterday and is available on the commission’s website. Get it while it’s hot. With the expiration of the terms of several commissioners, new appointees [...]

From NewsMax.com: Obama’s latest watchword, “investments,” is not, as I originally assumed, simply a euphemism for government spending. It captures his entire economic philosophy — a philosophy that is permanently engrained in the core of his being and disastrous for America’s “future.” President Bill Clinton shrewdly used the word as a more palatable substitute for [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: In his State of the Union address, President Obama used innovationas one of the key words in elaborating his vision for America’s economic future. He embraced the word quite often during his speech, mentioning “innovation” eight times. If other variations of the word, such as innovate and innovative, are counted, that increases the total [...]

From Michelle Malkin: After Obama won the election in 2008, Time Magazine, noticing that “New Deal II: This Time It’s Personal” was about to be released nationally, rode the wave: What a difference two years, some horrendously expensive spending (sorry: “targeted investment”) shams and pork orgies accompanied by the inevitable high unemployment, a sputtering economy [...]

From Michelle Malkin: President Obama used the word “jobs” 31 times in his State of the Union Address. Did you add “-killing” under your breath every time he read the word on his teleprompter? Me, too. While Obama was out on the trail filming 2012 campaign ads on the taxpayer’s dime, workers in industries demonized [...]

From Michelle Malkin: The nation’s capital is freaking out over a winter snowstorm. But everyone else should be up in arms over the real snow job in Washington this week. While the Democrats continued to extol Obamacare and the president defended the behemoth law during the Date of the Union, HHS was quietly presiding over a [...]