By DEROY MURDOCK, Scripps Howard News Service

If ObamaCare were a prescription drug, ads for it would say: "Use with extreme caution. Side effects include regulatory headaches, irritated taxpayers, and swollen unemployment."

That's right. Serious studies indicate that ObamaCare would kill millions of jobs. With 9.4 percent unemployment, this is hardly the time to foul up the labor market even further.

"Obama talks about $600 billion. The Congressional Budget Office talks about $1.1 trillion," a gray-haired man in a striped shirt bluntly told Democratic Senator Arlen Specter at a town hall meeting in Lebanon, Pennsylvania last Tuesday. "I have spent 40 years in government," this vocal American continued.

Imagine that your two best friends are British and Canadian tobacco addicts. The Brit battles lung cancer. The Canadian endures emphysema and wheezes as he walks around with clanging oxygen canisters. You probably would not think: "Maybe I should pick up smoking."

Imagine that your two best friends are British and Canadian tobacco addicts. The Brit battles lung cancer. The Canadian endures emphysema and wheezes as he walks around with clanging oxygen canisters. You probably would not think: "Maybe I should pick up smoking."

Some people just cannot wait for dog killer Michael Vick to return to professional football. The only thing this inter-species sadist deserves is universal derision.

Let's re-cap exactly why the former Atlanta Falcons quarterback pleaded guilty to running a dog-fighting ring, earning him 18 months in federal prison and house arrest until July 20.

America does not face a healthcare crisis. America faces a manageable challenge: how to help a relatively small share of the population purchase health insurance. ObamaCare is too big a solution chasing too small a problem -- like hunting quail with a howitzer.

A funny thing recently happened at the Italian-Swiss border. Italian authorities found a briefcase filled with $134.5 billion in U.S. government bonds. While this now appears to be merely a massive counterfeiting case, initial worries were that a major nation clandestinely attempted to unload a staggering sum of genuine U.S. dollar securities.

As if America's hands were not full already -- from Iran to Afghanistan to North Korea -- Washington Democrats have increased tensions with our next-door neighbors. Canada and Mexico, America's top two export markets, are embroiled in trade feuds with the U.S., both triggered by American protectionism.

President Obama has the perfect reason to abandon his foolish promise to close Guantanamo: The American people overwhelmingly reject his policy. Popular opinion aside, keeping Gitmo full of homicidal Muslim maniacs still makes sense.

"We're out of money," President Obama admitted. "We're operating in deep deficits," he said in a C-Span interview last week.
While Obama is refreshingly realistic, he resembles a man who strolls into a bar, sees that his wallet is empty, and then slaps a round of drinks for everyone onto his wheezing credit card.