Jeffrey A. Setaro

Political & Cultural Commentary from a Constitutional Conservative.

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Keeping We the People in the Dark

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Democrats on the Senate Finance Committee have refused to publish the final text of their health care reform bill online prior to voting on it. They claim the language is too technically difficult for ordinary people to understand, and that releasing the text would just lead to confusion. Yeah, right… I suspect it has more […]

Flout the Individual Mandate Penalty and Go to Jail?

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I wonder if President Obama still thinks the Individual Mandate provisions of the Health Care Reform bill aren’t a tax: Americans who fail to pay the penalty for not buying insurance would face legal action from the Internal Revenue Service, according to the Joint Committee on Taxation. The remarks Thursday from the committee’s chief of staff, Thomas […]

U.S., France, Germany and Others Walk Out During Ahmadinejad’s Israel-bashing UN Speech

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It’s time for me to eat a little crow – feathers and all – here… I didn’t think the U.S. delegation would walk out during Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s address to the United Nations General Assembly this evening. But they did… along with the delegations of at least a dozen other nations: France on Wednesday […]

Will the U.S. Join Canada and Germany in Ahmadinejad Walkout?

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Canada and Germany have apparently head enough of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Holocaust-denying rants and virulent anti-Semitism. The Canadian government is planning to protest his presence at the UN today by having their entire delegation walking out of the chamber when Ahmadinejad takes the podium: Canada will boycott Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s speech at the […]

Ouch: New York Gov. Paterson Blasts Pres. Obama

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The feud between New York Governor David Paterson and the White House took a turn for the worse today with Gov. Patterson essentially telling reporters at Columbia University that Obama’s just cranky because he hasn’t accomplished jack (emphasis mine): I understand the president’s concern, but I understand the concern of staff members at the White […]

Train Wreck: CBO Predicts Social Security Cash Deficits in 2010-11

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Ed Morrissey has obtained a copy the summer 2009 Congressional Budget Office report on the health of the Social Security “Trust Fund”… The news isn’t good, actually it’s pretty frightening: Four years ago, George W. Bush attempted to reform the entitlement program Social Security, warning that the system was accelerating into collapse and would soon […]

Yes, Mr. President the Individual Mandate Is A Tax

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I don’t know about you, but I didn’t watch Pres. Obama ‘s Sunday Talk show orgy… I’ve skimmed through the transcripts and frankly I don’t think I missed much. He really didn’t say anything new, he simply repeated the same arguments he’s been making for months. About the only interesting thing I came across was […]

Seven Former CIA Directors Ask Pres. Obama to End Criminal Investigation of CIA Interrogators

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Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency sent a letter to Pres. Obama on Friday asking him to reverse Attorney General Eric Holder’s decision to re-open a criminal investigation of CIA interrogations that took place following the attacks of September 11: Seven former directors of the Central Intelligence Agency on Friday urged President Obama […]

The Obligatory Jimmy Carter is a Tool Post

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I wasn’t going to comment on Jimmy Carter’s asinine remarks on race because frankly they don’t deserve comment. But after America’s crazy aunt, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi mumbled something about political violence in her weekly press briefing I thought I should take a moment to point out that these are two people that no sane […]

The Tax Man Cometh: Senate Health Reform Bill Includes Many Tax Hikes

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The folks at Americans for Tax Reform have examined the Senate Finance Committee health care reform bill announced today and come up with a list of all the tax hikes in the bill: Individual Mandate Tax.  If you don’t sign up for health insurance, you will have to pay a tax in the following range: […]

Washington Times: ACORN Says Workers Conduct ‘Indefensible’

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The Washington Times is reporting that ACORN, the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now, is suspending advising new clients as part of its service programs and is setting up an independent review to investigate what happened: ACORN, calling the actions of some of its employees “indefensible,” has suspended advising new clients as part of […]

Breaking: New York Residences Raided in Terrorism Probe

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Not a lot of details yet but the Associated Press is reporting that law enforcement agents have conducted raids related to a terrorism investigation in New York City: Law enforcement agents raided residences in New York City on Monday as part of a terrorism investigation, and began briefing Congress about the probe. New York Police […]