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By Betsy McCaughey Contrary to the headlines, the 4th Circuit Federal Court of Appeals did not “uphold” the constitutionality of the Obama health law’s mandatory insurance provision last week. The court dismissed the Virginia challenge for technical reasons but made a point of saying that the health law raises important constitutional questions that should be

By Betsy McCaughey Overall job growth hit zero in August, but jobs in health care are growing steadily. That would be good news, except that growth in this industry is increasingly paid for by taxpayers or new federal borrowing. And despite the sales pitch to the contrary, the Obama health law is making things worse.

By Betsy McCaughey More than half the members of the House of Representatives avoided holding customary town hall meetings during their August vacation. No wonder they’re ducking the public. The spin Congress put on the debt ceiling deal doesn’t jibe with the facts. Now the six Democrats on the newly created deficit reduction committee are

By Betsy McCaughey We the people are being shoved between a rock and a hard place — forced to accept tax hikes imposed by a deficit-reduction committee or go along with cuts to defense and national security that, we are told, will imperil our safety and harm our troops. Last Tuesday, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta

By Betsy McCaughey In the 304-page ruling it handed down last Friday, the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals eviscerated a key provision of the Obama health law, ruling it unconstitutional. The court gutted the Obama lawyers’ key rationale for making all Americans buy health insurance, calling their argument less than truthful, indeed a “convenient sleight

By Betsy McCaughey On Friday, a federal appeals court ruled that the Obama health law’s requirement that every American buy health insurance is unconstitutional — bringing the legal challenge to Obama-Care much closer to the US Supreme Court. This is the highest profile of the several cases winding their way through the courts, filed by

By Betsy McCaughey The U.S. Constitution is the biggest casualty in the debt-ceiling deal cobbled together this week. Generally, presidents ask Congress for a debt-ceiling hike once or twice a year, but President Obama said he wanted to avoid another debt controversy before the 2012 election. He pressed for a hike double or triple the

By Betsy McCaughey President Obama is demanding that the debt ceiling be raised by a whopping amount — two or three times the normal increase — to let the federal government keep on borrowing past the 2012 election. The ceiling is generally raised once or twice a year, but Obama claims he wants to keep

By Betsy McCaughey President Barack Obama told the nation on Saturday that solving the nation’s debt crisis would “take a balanced approach, shared sacrifice, and a willingness to make unpopular choices.” Those are weasel words. On Tuesday, the president applauded a proposal from the “Gang of Six” — six U.S. senators who unveiled a a