Friday afternoon roundup

The Most Equal Comrade is sending Congress a spending plan for FY2017 that comes in at $4 trillion. It comes "complete with a massive $2.8 trillion tax hike and a set of assumptions that boggles the imagination nearly as much as the topline spending number."

Does it include more funding for the USDA-NIH joint project creating hip-hop anti-obesity videos, on which they've already spent $3.5 million?

And while we're on the subject of your overlords deliberately impoverishing you in order to carry-out their Cloward-and-Piven-inspired Great Leveling Project, look at the latest bracing reality regarding Freedom-Hater-care:

A new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report estimates that private health insurance premiums will continue to balloon over the next decade thanks in large part to Obamacare.

The report states that, over the next 10 years, private health insurance premiums will increase by about 5 percent annually — a rate that outpaces the gross domestic product by 2 percentage points.

By 2025, employment-based coverage (health-care insurance an employer offers) will cost 60 percent more than it does today. For a family, that increase costs to an average of $24,500 per year. For those with an individual plan, health-care costs will increase to cost an average $10,000 per year.

What’s driving these price increases? Obamacare.

The CBO report states that Obamacare’s costly federal mandates on insurance companies — like forcing them to cover everyone regardless of preexisting conditions — increased costs of individual, or non-group, health-care plans (which account for 15 percent of all plans) by 27 to 30 percent.

It's not going to start your weekend by putting a spring in your step, but today's must-read is "Underestimating Nuclear Missile Threats from Iran and North Korea" by R. James Woolsey, Henry F. Cooper, William R. Graham, Fritz Ermarth, and Peter Vincent Pry at NRO. If post-America doesn't wise up and fast, we will see an incinerated city or an EMP attack.


At least 12 of Hillionaire's aides at State - and possibly as many as 30 - handled top-secret intel on that private server of hers.