The Daily Caller

The Daily Caller

Liberals, why are you celebrating Obamacare?

Hadley Heath
Senior Policy Analyst, Independent Women's Forum

Liberals are celebrating the Supreme Court's decision upholding Obamacare. This raises a question: Why, exactly, are they celebrating? Obamacare is far from the liberal ideal. In fact, many of its provisions fly in the face of what liberals say they stand for. The law promotes cronyism, hurts the poor, limits care for the elderly, fails to reach the left’s pet goal of universal coverage, wrecks havoc on government transparency, and raises taxes on the middle class.

Stiletto Nation: a fight for all our futures

9:13 AM 10/06/2010

A recent cover of Time magazine features a photo of an 18-year-old Afghan girl whose face has been mutilated as punishment for running away from an arranged marriage.  It's an important, vivid reminder of the ongoing violence and discrimination that confront too many women in the Middle East.  Attacks like this are not rare.  The United Nations estimates that 5,000 women are murdered each year by Muslim family members in “honor killings.”