Category Archives: Obamacare

By Robert J. Avrech | May 20, 2013

Death & Taxes: Welcome to Obamaland

Tweet In this world, nothing can be said to be certain except death and taxes. We’ve heard this clever aphorism countless times, and nodded our heads in bleak recognition. And yet, have we ever really pondered the ghoulishness that equates taxes with mortality? Anyone who has ever been audited by the IRS—Seraphic Secret has been [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | May 14, 2013

Obama’s Lack of Leadership and Moral Accountability

Tweet Here’s Barack Hussein Obama reacting to the three scandals that are poised to engulf the balance of his second term: 1. Benghazi is a “sideshow.” 2. Political repression of Conservatives by the IRS  was committed by “low-level staffers.” 3. Regarding government wiretaps on the AP: “I’m shocked.”

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By Robert J. Avrech | April 29, 2013

Outrage! Secret Talks To Exempt Congress From Obamacare

Tweet In ancient Rome, an engineer who built a bridge had to sleep underneath it to demonstrate its safety. Naturally, this law was an incentive for engineers to build bridges that would not collapse. No such law exists for America’s political class. Barack Obama and his family will never have to squirm under the government [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | April 3, 2013

Obama’s Philistine Gun Control

Tweet Obamacare has nothing to do with health. The redefinition of marriage to include same sex couples (why not polygamy?) has nothing to do with civil or human rights. And gun control has nothing to do with curbing violence. These social justice movements—code for Marxism—are methods whereby our civil society is undermined by the radical [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | March 25, 2013

Passover 2013: Of Slaves, Slavery, Judenrat, Kapos and America

Tweet Tonight begins the holiday of Passover in which Jews celebrate deliverance from Egyptian bondage. In order to escape the shackles of slavery, the vast machinery of the mighty Egyptian state had to be crushed. Those who wielded absolute power were reduced to nothingness. G-d did this not only to diminish the physical power of [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | March 22, 2013

Passover: Liberty, Then and Now

Tweet Seraphic Secret rises at 5 a.m for a morning walk. The streets are empty save for the chug-chug-chugging of the pick-up trucks delivering newspapers. Sprinklers hiss, and lawns glisten. The air is lightly perfumed with jacaranda. I listen to a news round-up and feel—there is no way around this—sad and defeated.

Also posted in Judaism, Judaism & Christianity, Maayan Ariel, Passover, Remembering Ariel | Tagged | 39 Responses
By Robert J. Avrech | March 19, 2013

Cyprus American Style

Tweet The Socialist government of Cyprus is planning on stealing money—they call it a tax—from the savings accounts of Cypriot citizens. People will lose between six percent and nine percent of their savings. Naturally, the government has closed the banks for fear of a run by depositors. They call it a “banking holiday.” Notice how [...]

Also posted in Economy, Obama Watch, Taxes | Tagged | 26 Responses
By Robert J. Avrech | March 13, 2013

The Seraphic Secret Study of Fat Lesbians

Tweet Yesterday, Seraphic Secret reported that the Obama administration is going to spend $1.5 million tax dollars to find out why lesbians are fat. This is, after all, a burning social issue that demands attention by the federal government. Because we are concerned, patriotic citizens, Seraphic Secret has conducted its own study of fat lesbians—at [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | March 12, 2013

Obama to Spend $1.5 Million to Find Out Why Lesbians Are Fat

Tweet Okay, Seraphic Secret admits that $1.5 million is not a lot of money. Not anymore. President Obama and the Democrats have so redefined the concept of money and debt, that anything below trillions and billions, is barely worthy of note. But this $1.5 million dollar grant—your tax dollars at work—to answer the burning question: [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | March 5, 2013

700 Pages of New Rules for Obamacare

Tweet “A nation can survive fools, even ambitious ones. But it cannot survive treason from within.” — Cicero Here’s how the con works. Get the media and the public focused on sequestration, which accounts for pennies, and then quietly get Health and Human Services—Orwellian Newspeak—to mandate 700 pages of Obamacare regulations. This is what happened [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | February 6, 2013

Now For Some Sanity Regarding Evil And Inanimate Objects Called Guns

Tweet   Obamacare and gun control are two sides of the same coin. Both are simply means—as Rules for Radicals teaches—to a radical leftist end. Obamacare is not about health. It’s a tactic to: 1) Redistribute wealth.

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By Robert J. Avrech | December 26, 2012

Stalked: Girl Without A Gun

Tweet I am republishing this true life story from 2007 for the same reason I republished Jew Without a Gun, my nightmarish report of being trapped with my family, unarmed and defenseless, in the 1992 L.A. Riots. This is another cautionary tale — not about the riots — but about one frightened and helpless young [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | November 7, 2012

The New Leader of the Free World

Tweet One day before the election, a teacher in the Los Angeles Unified School District told me of a conversation he had with a seven-year-old student. The child asked for whom the teacher was voting. “That’s private, ” said the teacher with a smile. “If you vote for Romney, that means you have Romnesia. He’s [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | October 14, 2012

America Won’t Survive Another Four Years of Barack Hussein Obama

Tweet David P. Goldman is one of the smartest, best informed political, cultural and religious philosophers in America. His book How Civilizations Die: (And Why Islam Is Dying Too) is one of the most frequently referenced works on Seraphic Secret’s bookshelf. In this article, Goldman—who blogs as Spengler in the Asian Times— explains why another [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | July 18, 2012

Who’s Your Daddy

Tweet President Obama’s “You didn’t build that” speech last week is highly revealing in several important ways. Departing from his usual reliance on the teleprompter, President Obama spoke extemporaneously. This is made quite obvious from a halting delivery that was sprinkled with stuttering “ums” and broken sentences. It’s also obvious that he was speaking to [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | July 10, 2012

Oops! U.S. “Overpaid” $14 Billion In Jobless Benefits

Tweet Seraphic Secret is in the movie business. Emphasis on the word business. Here’s how it works. Yours truly writes and produces a movie. If it makes a profit, it’s a success. Those involved prosper. If the film loses money, heads roll. Either way, there are consequences. Business measures itself through profit and loss. But [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | July 5, 2012

13,000 Pages of New ObamaTax Regulations To Enforce ObamaCare

Tweet Tax or penalty? I keep hearing arguments among so-called intellectuals about this issue. Forgive me, but this is not complicated. The Supreme Court ruled that it’s a tax. Obamacare is only constitutional as a tax. Obamacare is being enforced by the IRS. And to make this absolutely clear: the burden of Obamacare is being [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | July 3, 2012

Dog Bites Seraphic Secret: A Medical Tale With a Pre-Obamacare Ending

Tweet At the very last moment, I saw the dog bare its fangs, lunge and snap at my ankle. My reflexes kicked in and without thinking I jumped out of the way. The dog was unable to sink its teeth deep into my flesh, but I felt a sharp burning pain as I limped away. [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | July 2, 2012

Jewish History and Obamacare

Tweet Along with other far more knowledgeable bloggers, Seraphic Secret was honored with an invitation by the Watcher of Weasels to contribute thoughts on SCOTUS and Obamacare. I wrote a d’var Torah, a Torah thought, regarding Jewish history and the consequences of high taxes. The Supreme Court finally ruled on the constitutionality of ObamaCare, with Chief [...]

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By Robert J. Avrech | July 1, 2012

Before Obamacare: A Personal View

Tweet Dismayed and saddened by the SCOTUS decision, Karen and I understood that our reaction was born of years of immersion in the health care system when our son Ariel was stricken with cancer. My Writer’s Guild insurance provided excellent coverage, but still there were battles with the insurance company. At one point we even [...]

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