will s anything unusual about the delay of the deadline and implementation of a complex and comprehensive law are, you know, deliberately sticking their heads in the santd or willfully ignorant about past precedent. welcome to the journal editorial report. that was white house press secretary jay carney wednesday defending the obama administration s decision not to enforce a key part of the affordable care act. some say that in defiance of the law. the administration claims it has the legal authority to delay the employer mandate until 2014 and insist it is rest of obama care is still on track. but gop leaders called on president obama this week to extend the same break to american families and delay the individual mandate as well. if it were up to the president to give american businesses an exemption from the health laws mandates or without giving the same break to individuals and families across the country? hell, no, it isn t. joining the panel this week, wall st
a key element of its affordable care act until 2015. giving employers with more than 50 full-time workers another year to provide health insurance coverage. the individual mandate, however, is still on rack for 2014. and a new wall street journal analysis says that healthy consumers could see their insurance rates double. maybe even triple. under the exchanges set to open on october 1. joining me t panel this week, wall street journal columnist and deputy editor, dan henninger. editorial board member. joe rag sxo washington columnist kim strausel. joe, you have been predicting something like this for some time since you cover health care for us. should we welcome this delay? well, i think there are a few things. this indicates that they have created an apparatus that s so complex that they can t even force enforce it themselves. i also think that it is an admission that the critics were right. you know, lot of low-wage businesses, restaurants and hospitality, gr
were shuttered this week. senior al qaeda operatives were intercept. indicating the plans for a major attack were under way and calling it into question the obama administration s narrative the terror group is on the run. wall street journal columnist and deputy editor brett stephens and editorial board member matt kaminski join me with more. just to add this list on friday, the u.s. closed the consulate in lahore, pakistan, which i have been to and which is the safest parts supposedly the safest part of pakistan. are we watching the comeback of al qaeda as a global threat? we have been watching it for months. it is just that only now we noticed. i think with this last week has shown one, that s the al qaeda core, the central pakistan, he is in charge and is active. exactly. number two, we have seen that the these al qaeda affiliates took up when we went out after al qaeda and pakistan, moved to yemen and moved to north africa and syria. this affiliate in yemen ha
shoot, we ll introduce you to an army general with the solution to the problem of mentally unstable soldiers with guns and we ll tell you why he can t get his way in washington. finally, a shakespearian tragedy related to syria. but it s not what you re thinking. this one will actually make you smile. but first here s my take. for those of you tired of the coverage of malaysian airlines flight 370, i want you to try and experiment. when you re with a group of friends whose eyes might rollover when you bring up the issue, ask them what they think happened to the plane. very quickly you will find yourselves in the midst of a lively discussion with many different competing theories. each plausible, each with holes. the plane was hijacked each will say. but then why no demands. it was an accident someone else will say. why were there no distress signals? this mystery of what actually happened is at the heart of the fascination with the story and the mystery has now morphed into a
watch and find out. also in the wake of the ft. hood shooting, we ll introduce you to an army general with a solution to the problem of mentally unstable soldiers with guns, and we ll tell you why he can t get his way in washington. finally, a shakespearean tragedy related to syria, but it s not what you re thinking. this one will actually make you smile. but first here s my take. for those of you tired of the coverage of malaysian airlines flight 370, i want you to try an experiment. when you re with a group of friends whose eyes might roll over when you even bring up the issue, ask them what they think happened to the plane. very quickly you will find yourselves in the midst of a lively discussion with many different competing theories. each plausible, each with holes. the plane was hijacked someone will say. but then why no demands? it was an accident someone else will say. why were there no distress signals? this mystery of what actually happened is at the heart of th