Catholic Priest issues strong invocation against socialism

A catholic priest addressing the 2012 Colorado Republican State Assembly and Convention assails socialism for taking away, not just rights, but responsibilities of free people.
For a man representing an institution that has seemed all too willing to go along with the Democrat-party big government social welfare agenda, Fr. Andrew is a breath of fresh air.
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• Glenn Beck Radio show video with commentary
  
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Milton Friedman on Socialized Medicine

With your Obamacare debate, get some wisdom from one of the greatest economists of the 20th century. We've been warned for decades. When will we learn?
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• Milton Friedman - Rising Cost of Health Care
  
• Milton Friedman - Socialized Medicine
  
• Milton Friedman - Health Care in a Free Market
  
• Milton Friedman - Curing American Health Care
  

A Time For Choosing, again

The more things change...
The particulars of political campaign issues change from cycle to cycle, but fundamental principles endure. In truth, there is nothing new under the sun.
As we contemplate the issues of the 2012 election, a speech from 1964 is as true today as it was then.
On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan, a former actor and Democrat (not yet Governor of California), addressed the Republican National Convention. It was his first nationally televised appearance.
Watch it and think: How few particulars of the speech would have to be changed to fit the present day, and how many of our problems today stem from not listening to him then.

• Video: A Time For Choosing
  
• Text: A Time For Choosing
  

Obamacare is in Critical Condition on National Review Online

National Review Online has an in-depth blog dedicated to health care policy. Highly recommended.
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• National Review Online: Critical Condition
  

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Obamacare on Video

For our readers who prefer video, here are a few top selections on Obamacare:

• WSJ: Does the ObamaCare repeal vote matter?
  243-176: More members of the House voted to repeal than had originally voted to pass, with 10 Democrats crossing over.
  
• Townhall Comedy: Chief Justice Roberts Offered a Job as the Conservative Commentator on MSNBC
  
• American Association of Physicians and Surgeons: Why ObamaCare must be repealed
  How it can happen and what are the real answers. See also: http://aapsonline.org
  
• FoxNews: ObamaCare and the Road to Serfdom
  John Stossel interviews Dr. Lee Hieb
  
• The Hill: GOP Rep. Gingrey: Health law like 'Boss Hogg'
  Rep. Phil Gingrey (R-Ga.) compared the 2010 healthcare law to Boss Hogg, the crooked commissioner of the fictional Hazzard County, Ga., in the 1970s TV series "The Dukes of Hazzard."
  
• The Cato Institute: The Supreme Court's Obamacare Ruling: What Happens Next?
  

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Obamacare's Next Battle: November 2012

In November 2009 HHCapitalism.com published 121 Reasons to Reject Obama-Reid-PelosiCare. Many battles have been fought and lost since then, but this war is not over. With John Robert's tortured reasoning that defies common sense and insults the intelligence of non-law degree-holding Americans, citizens now know that their institutions cannot protect them from political power brokers unless they participate fully and excercize their constitutional rights (while they still have them) at the voting booth and in talking to their friends, neighbors, families and co-workers.
Candidates for office, campaign managers, activists and any citizen who wants to be thoroughy informed on this most critical issue may start here:

• CNN: Health care ruling can help Romney
  William Bennett writes What the country thought was a debate over federal regulation of interstate trade has been transformed by Roberts into a debate over Congress' power to shape decisions through taxation.
  
• WSJ: A Strategy to Undo ObamaCare
  Keith Hennessey writes: To push through key parts of the Affordable Care Act, Democrats used the 'reconciliation' process. A Republican president, House and Senate can use reconciliation to repeal them.
  
• The Cato Institute: Rarely Has Such a Smart Judge Written Such a Bad Opinion
  John Robert's gain comes at the cost of Americans' liberties.
  
• WSJ: Romney's Tax Confusion
  The candidate's response on the ObamaCare mandate reveals larger campaign problems.
  
• American Spectator: Time for One More Flip-Flop
  Mitt Romney should admit his mandate was a mistake.
  
• The Hill: Fifteen governors reject or leaning against expanded Medicaid program
  Elise Viebeck writes of a blow to President Obama’s promise of broader insurance coverage.
  
• WSJ: ObamaCare's Lost Tribe: Doctors
  Daniel Henninger: The practice of medicine is the Obama health-care law's biggest loser.
  
• Townhall.com: IRS Gets Ready for Obamacare Implementation
  Lorum Ipsum
  
• Washington Examiner: Odds long to undo health care law
  Senator Mitch McConnell says it's hard to unravel something of the magnitude of the 2,700-page health care law.
  
• WSJ: What Hath the Supreme Court Wrought?
  Letters to the Editor of the Wall Street Journal
  
• Times247.com: On Obamacare's 'silver lining' — there is none
  Mark J. Fitzgibbons says the constitutional rule of law lost.
  
• National Review: Pfizer’s Political CEO
  Without the clout in the pharmaceutical world of Jeff Kindler, the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act might never have passed. But the deal he cut ended up hurting his industry.
  
• Kaiser Heath News: Supreme Court
  A compendium of articles relevant to this topic.
  
• AP/Washington Post: Beware the claims
  Nothing in the law ensures that people happy with their policies now can keep them.
  
• The Cato Institute/National Review: The States Resist Obamacare
  Michael D. Tanner writes that One of the few bright spots in the Supreme Court’s ruling on Obamacare was its 7–2 decision striking down the Obama administration’s attempt to blackmail states into going along with a massive and costly expansion of Medicaid.
  
• Mises.org: Hospital of Cards
  How did we get here?
  
• The Cato Institute: A Strange Constitutional Win
  Who would have thought we could win our Commerce Clause challenge while the Affordable Care Act is upheld?
  
• Mises.org: Government Medical "Insurance"
  We've been warned for decades about the encroachment of government power into medicine.
  
• The Cato Institute: ObamaCare's Now a Bigger Mess
  Last week's Supreme Court ruling actually added another layer of cost, complexity and political contentiousness to the bill.
  
• Times247: Mandate seen pushing church out of health care
  Many Catholics are wondering whether their religious freedoms will survive.
  
• The Cato Institute: Why the Obamacare Ruling Matters
  Much of the political Left remains mystified by the health-care law’s continued unpopularity.
  
• Mises.org: The Devilish Principles of Hillarycare
  Remember the Democrat's 1993 attempt? Ignore history and unchanging principles at your peril.
  
• WSJ: A Vast New Taxing Power
  The Chief Justice's ObamaCare ruling is far from the check on Congress of right-left myth.