From The Heritage Foundation: Last week, the House Judiciary Committee held a hearing on the constitutionality of the individual mandate. The mandate has been declared unconstitutional by federal courts in Virginia and Florida, and appeals are pending in those cases. The committee heard from three legal experts: Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, Duke University law [...]

From World Net Daily: After more than two years of relative quiet regarding gun-control issues, the Obama administration, through its Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, or ATF, has begun laying the groundwork for a massive gun ban. Last week the ATF released a “study” discussing the suitability of certain “non-sporting” shotguns for importation [...]

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 The Weekly Standard: The brazenness of the Obama administration never ceases to amaze. Try typing ”Obamacare” into Google, and you’ll find that the first entry is now the Obama administration’s www.healthcare.gov. If you don’t particularly like that result, you’ll probably hate the fact that you’re paying for it. You’ll get the same paid-for result if you type in “Obamacare [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The Department of Health and Human Services announced Tuesday that, starting next year, health insurance companies must receive permission from the Obama administration before they can raise rates higher than 10%. As we warned before Obamacare even became law, this is a form of price control, a government intervention that has a long and [...]

From The Heritage Foundation: The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) is slated to vote Tuesday on an Internet regulation scheme hatched by Chairman Julius Genachowski. It’s bad enough that the commission is attempting yet again to supersede its statutory authority—despite a court ruling halting a previous attempt to regulate the Web. The fact that the public has [...]

From Renew America: The rejected, tone-deaf leftists in Washington, clinging to their last hours of congressional power, have attempted (with mixed results) to do everything possible to strike back at the voters who dared to hand them pink slips last month at the polls. The “lame ducks” have taken issues that are necessary to avoid [...]

If people let government decide what foods they eat and what medicines they take, their bodies will soon be in as sorry a state as are the souls of those who live under tyranny. – Thomas Jefferson Good intentions will always be pleaded for every assumption of authority. It is hardly too strong to say [...]

From Michelle Malkin: The link between obesity and national security was made earlier this year when “Let’s Move” launched, but now it’s being ratcheted up a notch. There’s nothing like salivating over another industry takeover to make the left express concern for the military recruiting effort: First Lady Michelle Obama plans to warn in remarks Monday that [...]

From Right Wing News: It’s very easy for Obamacare supporters to scoff at the whole idea that there are “death panels” ensconced in Obama’s health care power grab. But the fact of the matter is that they exist in a defacto form. One of those defacto death panels is the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), [...]

From World Net Daily: Just as WikiLeaks was dumping thousands of pages of classified documents into cyberspace, the Obama administration was announcing plans for a vote before the end of the year on how to “level the playing field” on the Internet with new government rules, restrictions and limits that would be monitored by federal [...]

From Michelle Malkin: Map via Frank Jacobs, Strange Maps blog/Big Think The TSA isn’t the only one with grabby hands. I’ve been reporting on the stealth Obama land and ocean grabs for the past several months now — and there is another new, under-the-radar-screen development that deserves your attention. Quick review: In August, I told you [...]

From World Net Daily: A labor group affiliated with the nation’s largest union is giving its highest prize for journalism to a writer from the official newspaper of the Communist Party USA. President Obama’s labor secretary, Hilda Solis, will be on hand for the awards dinner this week to lead a special session on how [...]

From CNSNews.com: Virginia Atty. Gen. Ken Cuccinelli, who has filed a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the health-care law signed by President Barack Obama last March, says Obama and the Congress that enacted that law–which mandates that individuals must buy government-approved health insurance plans–are seeking a power over the lives of Americans that even King [...]

From Telegraph.co.uk: A new approach to online privacy is set to be unveiled by the Obama Administration in the coming weeks, according to reports. The moves could include the creation of an office similar to the online privacy tsar that UK campaigning groups have called for in this country, sources told the Wall Street Journal. Previous [...]

From World Net Daily: When Barack Obama was campaigning for president in 2008, he visited Colorado Springs and said he wanted to create a “Civilian National Security Force” as big and well-funded as the $650 billion-plus U.S. military, a mysterious campaign promise ignored by virtually the entire media except WND. Now Charlie Rangel is proposing that [...]

From PrisonPlanet.com: Type the keywords “Internet censorship” into Google News and you will immediately understand to what degree the world wide web is under assault from attempts by governments globally to regulate and stifle free speech. From Australia to Belarus, from Turkey to Vietnam, from Pakistan to Egypt, from Afghanistan to Iran, huge chunks of the [...]

From NannyStateLiberationFront.net: White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel is fond of saying, “You don’t ever want a crisis to go to waste; it’s an opportunity to do important things that you would otherwise avoid.” Well, the Obama Administration certainly has not let the British Petroleum (BP) Deepwater Horizon oil rig crisis go to waste, using it as [...]

From Examiner.com: In light of numbing revelations over the last several days concerning fraudulent statements on Barack Obama’s resume, this piece of information curiously comes to light.  The White House has instructed the ‘mainstream media’ not to report what they may discover. The White House directive was issued as part of a deal struck between [...]

From World Net Daily: President Obama’s recently passed health-care reform legislation includes a surprise for many Americans – a beefing up of a U.S. Public Health Service reserve force and expectations that it respond on short notice to “routine public health and emergency response missions,” even involuntarily. According to Section 5210 of HR 3590, titled “Establishing [...]