1. In an unprecedented action, the Office of the Actuary for Medicare has repudiated the official Annual Report of the Medicare Trustees that claimed that the new Obamacare law would strengthen the program.

The Right Side News reported that Chief Actuary Richard Foster, a career civil servant in the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), called the Trustees Report "unreasonable" and "implausible."

The Office of the Actuary issued its own analysis, which warned that "the projections shown in the (official) report do not represent the best estimate of actual future Medicare expenditures."

Foster had previously issued another report shortly after the passage of Obamacare which said the new law would cut Medicare by $575 Billion over the next 10 years; cause 7.5 million seniors to lose their Medicare Advantage coverage and another 7.5 million to face higher premiums and benefit cuts; result in one in seven hospitals, skilled nursing facilities, and hospices to become unprofitable and possibly drop out of Medicare altogether; and force many doctors to stop seeing Medicare patients entirely.

2. The latest Rasmussen poll finds that 60% of voters want to repeal Obamacare, while 36% want to keep it and 4% are undecided.

In measuring the intensity of opinions, fully 50% of the people strongly want to repeal Obamacare, while only 26% strongly want to keep it.

1. In an article in the Washington Post, former Attorney General Edwin Meese III has written a devastating critique of U.S. District Judge Vaughn Walker's ruling that California voters had no right to amend their state constitution to define marriage as a union of one man and one woman.

"Walker's ruling is indefensible as a matter of law wholly apart from its result," Meese wrote.

"By refusing to acknowledge binding Supreme Court precedent, substantial evidence produced at trial that was contrary to the holding and plain common sense, the ruling exhibits none of the requirements of a traditional decision. This opinion is arbitrary and capricious, and its alarming legal methodology and overtly policy-driven tenor are too extreme to stand."

2. The Alliance Defense Fund (ADF) and Wisconsin Family Action have filed suit to stop Democratic Governor Jim Doyle and the legislature from evading a state constitutional amendment protecting marriage.

The lawsuit asks the court to halt the state's domestic partnership set-up because it creates a legal status substantially similar to that of marriage, which directly violates the Wisconsin Constitution.

In November 2006, 59% of the people approved an amendment to the state constitution that reads, "Only a marriage between one man and one woman shall be valid or recognized as a marriage in this state. A legal status identical or substantially similar to that of marriage for unmarried individuals shall not be valid or recognized in this state."

The Wisconsin Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the validity of the entire amendment's enactment.

The scheme, contained in the state budget, is available only to couples involved in a same-sex relationship. Domestic partners receive "declarations" instead of marriage licenses, but otherwise, the procedures for becoming domestic partners and becoming husband and wife are virtually the same.

Brian Raum, ADF Senior Counsel, said, "Politicians shouldn't defy the will of voters."

Julaine Appling, President of Wisconsin Family Action, said, "Our system of government serves no purpose if our elected officials can completely and capriciously ignore the will of the people with impunity. A reasonable person observing this registry would easily conclude that it is intended to mirror marriage. It borrows the requirements and eligibility standards for marriage, even to the point of requiring that the price of the registry certificate be the same as for a marriage license."

1. Tom Garcia, a Republican candidate for Congress in Florida's 24th district, has written an article in the Washington Times refuting the Karl Rove--George W. Bush strategy of pushing for amnesty for illegal aliens in order to gain their future political support.

"The overwhelming majority of illegal aliens have less than a high school education, and many are not even literate in their own languages," which means "they are natural recipients of the welfare state" and will "be more likely to favor the big-government, wealth-transferring, multiculturalist nanny state promised and promoted by the Democrat Party," Garcia writes.

2. A new poll from Rasmussen Reports finds that 65% of the voters are angry at the policies of the federal government, including 40% who are very angry.

87% of Republicans and 73% of independents indicate they are angry at governmental policies.

30% say they are not angry with the government.

The results of another Rasmussen Poll shows that 60% of the people believe that most members of Congress don't care what their constituents think.

Just 22% say most congressmen do care what's on the minds of their constituents, while 18% aren't sure.