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Any day now, the U.S. Supreme will rule on whether the Obamacare insurance mandate is constitutional. Seems like a no-brainer to me. How can forcing me to engage in commerce be constitutional?2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZJohn Stossel

During the summer of 2009, conservative activists turned up the heat on Democratic politicians to protest the innovation-destroying, liberty-usurping Obamacare mandate. In the summer of 2012, it's squishy Republican politicians who deserve the grassroots flames.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZMichelle Malkin

The nation's health care insurers are anxiously awaiting the Court's ruling. These firms tacitly agreed to caps on their profit margins in exchange for the chance to serve many more customers. 2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZDavid Sterman

Creepy atmospheric music aside, the federal government truly has crossed a threshold which in most people’s wildest dreams would never have appeared on the horizon, even in this administration.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T21:10:06ZLincoln Brown

This is a shift in the position of Europe's creditor nations, particularly Germany. Berlin has realized that it has no choice but to fund this and other bailouts.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T13:40:04ZGeorge Friedman

Vincent Gray, who is the mayor of Washington, D.C., which has some of the worst public schools in America, has an idea he believes will improve them: Keep children there longer.2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T13:40:04ZTerry Jeffrey

Last month, when President Obama finally endorsed gay marriage after years of equivocation, he emphasized that he still thinks states should be free to address the issue as they see fit. Since many voters strongly oppose gay marriage, it is clear why Obama advocates a federalist approach to the question. But it is not clear that he logically can2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T13:40:04ZJacob Sullum

If there are 27 million small business owners and 23% have not received any pay for a year, there are 6.21 million business owners who received no paycheck for at least a year. 2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T13:40:04ZMike Shedlock

Art Laffer and Steve Moore investigate Obama’s claim in today’s Wall Street Journal. 2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T13:40:04ZDaniel J. Mitchell

Parenting is tougher than it used to be. And if California is any indication, parents may soon have to fight for the right to exercise any influence--not to mention authority--over their children's sexual behaviors. 2012-06-13T00:01:00-04:002012-06-13T13:40:04ZRebecca Hagelin

CANBERRA, Australia (AP) -- NATO's chief hopes to soon reopen military supply routes through Pakistan despite new transport agreements with other Afghanistan neighbors providing alternatives....

The Falkland Islands will hold a referendum on its "political status" in a bid to end the dispute with Argentina over the archipelago's sovereignty.

FARGO, N.D. (AP) -- North Dakota voters overwhelmingly decided Tuesday to let the state's flagship university dump a controversial Fighting Sioux nickname that sparked threats of NCAA sanctions, ending - at least temporarily - a dispute simmering for decades that divided sports fans, alumni and even tribes....

Hundreds of firefighters are tackling a wildfire in the US state of Colorado, which has left at least one person dead.

The prisoner ombudsman says she is worried inmates' use of illegal drugs is accepted, after a report finds a man who died in his cell had taken a "cocktail" of drugs.

Authorities searched Tuesday for a man they say sexually assaulted and stabbed a lone hiker at Great Smoky Mountains National Park in Tennessee.

The run on Northern Rock could have been prevented, the outgoing chief executive of the Financial Services Authority tells the BBC.

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The Obama administration's increasing use of unmanned drone strikes to kill terror suspects is widely opposed around the world, according to a Pew Research Center survey on the U.S. image abroad....

Papers unsure about Olympics opening ceremony

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