News of the Week for July 2nd<\/sup>, 2017<\/p>\n <\/a><\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Czech Republic anchored right to arms possession in constitution<\/a> Judge blocks California’s high-capacity magazine ban<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Obama: Leaving the Paris Agreement is Anti-Democratic?<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n I Ran Wisconsin’s Successful High-Risk Pool Before Obamacare. It Actually Worked.<\/a> Is the GOP going about health care reform backwards?<\/a> The Myth That Cuts to Planned Parenthood Hiked Maternal Mortality Rate<\/a> Terminally ill baby Charlie Gard’s parents “utterly distraught” after losing final appeal in European court – meaning their son’s life support WILL be switched off<\/a> When Ted Cruz, GOP saw troubled future of Obamacare repeal<\/a> Scenes from the collapse: Another ObamaCare crisis erupts in rural Nevada<\/a> A Blue-Collar, Middle-Class Truck Driver’s Rant On America’s Health Care Mess <\/a> This Sceptered Isle <\/a> Sasse Sends Plan B to Trump: If No Agreement Next Week, Repeal First and Spend August on Replace<\/a> Netherlands Considers Euthanasia For Healthy People, Doctors Say Things Are “Getting Out Of Hand”<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n SCOTUS deals a blow to Second Amendment in Peruta v. California<\/a> Yazidi sex slave forced to eat her son after ISIS butchered him<\/a> House panel votes to split Air Force, create new U.S. Space Corps<\/a> <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Victory for Trump: SCOTUS Restores Vast Majority of Travel Ban <\/a> Supreme Court to Review Case of a Baker Told He Must Bake Gay Wedding Cake<\/a> Bake the cake? SCOTUS takes major religious-liberty case for next term<\/a> University hides author of “White Privilege Resource Guide” after College Fix query <\/a>![\"\"](\"https:\/\/impeachreno.org\/politicalhat\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/10\/Newsboy.jpg\" "\\"News")
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<\/a>Gun Rights<\/h1>\n
\nThe Lower House votes for a relaxation of the arms legislation. It is a signal to Brussels and the tightened EU weapons directive, Czech Interior Minister says. The Czech deputies have approved a new constitutional right to arms possession. On Wednesday, the Parliament’s lower house, with 139 votes in favor and 139 votes in favor, received broad support. The draft law now goes to the Senate, where a three-fifths majority of those present is necessary.<\/p>\n
\nA federal judge on Thursday blocked a California law set to take effect Saturday that would have barred gun owners from possessing high-capacity ammunition magazines.<\/p>\n<\/a>Hide the Decline<\/h1>\n
Environment &
\n“Green Energy”<\/h2>\n
\nEx-President Obama seems to have suggested in a speech that tearing up the Paris Agreement is a symptom of “an aggressive kind of nationalism” which threatens Democracy. My question – why doesn’t Obama mention all the greens who seem to think Democracy is an impediment to environmental progress?<\/p>\n<\/a>Obamacare<\/h1>\n
Government in Healthcare<\/h2>\n
\nIndividual markets across the country have evaporated or are rapidly moving towards a death spiral. Tragically, in Wisconsin we aren’t immune either. We have seen insurers leave the exchange, significantly reduce service areas and leave the individual market altogether.<\/p>\n
\nIn 2010, 2014, and (arguably) 2016, America elected Republicans because they wanted Obamacare repealed and replaced. They did not elect Republicans to revamp Medicaid. In fact, candidate Trump said he would not cut the program.<\/p>\n
\nUSA Today published an article last week about outgoing National Organization for Women (NOW) President Terry O’Neill. O’Neill reflected on her eight-year term as NOW President.<\/p>\n
\nChris Gard and Connie Yates wanted their son to undergo treatment in America<\/p>\n
\nIn October 2013, Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz took a lot of criticism for his doomed effort to defund Obamacare. It was an impossible goal; the GOP was in the minority in the Senate and a Democrat was in the White House. Under those circumstances, defunding President Obama’s signature achievement simply wasn’t going to happen. Establishment Republicans were angry at Cruz for raising the hopes of the party’s base before certain disappointment.<\/p>\n
\nIt’s working … right? If the clock is ticking on the Senate Republican effort to pass an ObamaCare repeal-and-replace bill, then time is also running out on Americans outside of urban cores stuck in the ObamaCare system. Anthem, which had previously been bullish on ObamaCare, announced that it will pull out of exchanges in most of Nevada – leaving thousands there with no access to health insurance within the mandatory system<\/p>\n
\nHere’s a concrete example of what “skyrocketing premiums,” “gargantuan deductibles,” and “outrageous co-pays” look like on the ground for a blue-collar, middle-class truck driver.<\/p>\n
\nAt some point, the state legal system, not the family, will decide whether further care will be permitted – even if the family has raised the money to continue treatment. <\/p>\n
\nThis morning, Senator Sasse urged President Trump to adopt a two-step strategy of repealing and then replacing ObamaCare \u2013 if an agreement is not reached by the day members return from the July 4th state work period. Sasse suggests that Trump call on Republicans to repeal ObamaCare through reconciliation upon return, and then to spend August crafting a replacement bill for a vote on Labor Day. <\/p>\n
\nThe proposed “Completed Life Bill” would allow any person over age 75 to receive euthanasia. Even if they are perfectly healthy.<\/p>\n<\/a>War & Terror<\/h1>\n
\nWait a minute… I thought we were supposed to be winning these cases now.<\/p>\n
\nA sex slave captured by ISIS was forced to eat her 1-year-old son with a side of rice, according to a gut-wrenching report.<\/p>\n
\nAs part of its version of the 2018 Defense authorization bill, the House Armed Services Committee voted late Wednesday night to create a sixth branch of the U.S. armed forces: the U.S. Space Corps, which would absorb the Air Force’s current space missions.<\/p>\n<\/a>National<\/h1>\n
\nToday, in a per curiam ruling, the Supreme Court restored the vast majority of the Trump administration’s temporary travel ban – including the temporary ban on refugee entry. The lower courts’ injunctions remain only in the narrowest of categories – where the person seeking entry has a “bona fide relationships with a person or entity in the United States.”<\/p>\n
\nToday was a good day for religious freedom at the Supreme Court.<\/p>\n
\nThe Supreme Court will wrap up most of its work in the 2016-17 term today, but they have set the stage for a big fight in the next term. Among its orders released today, the court granted cert in Masterpiece Cakeshop Ltd. v. Colorado Civil Rights Commission, a case in which the state penalized a baker for refusing to participate in a same-sex wedding on religious grounds. The case will give the Supreme Court an opportunity to clarify the scope and limits of the First Amendment<\/p>\n
\n“Check your privilege” by consulting this guide<\/p>\n