Inflated, inaccurate numbers
by Byron York Democrats from President Obama on down have been touting Obamacare’s sign-up numbers. Even after the system’s disastrous rollout, they like to point out, roughly three million people…
The IRS’ New Target: The First Amendment
Proposed rules governing political groups are surely unconstitutional. by Peter Roff President Barack Obama can be forgiven for telling Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that there wasn’t a “smidgen” of corruption…
IRS ‘Confusion’? Hardly!
New evidence undercuts White House claims that the IRS was merely confused about the law and never purposefully targeted conservatives. IRS e-mail shows they were secretly planning the recently proposed regulations which essentially…
CBO: Devastating Obamacare Facts
Then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said at the time of the passage of the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) that we had to pass it to find out…
Obamacare will reduce incomes of most Americans
There’s no doubt the Affordable Care Act will redistribute wealth in America. People at the top of the income ladder will pay more; people at the bottom will benefit. But…
Obama Using the IRS to Quash Dissent
by George Landrith When the House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Oversight grills the Internal Revenue Service’s John Koskinen next week about his scandal-plagued agency, it would do well to…
Stoking class warfare to win midterm elections
Income Inequality talk is not about helping the poor, its about trying to cling to power. Sadly, the American dream is in trouble precisely because of policies designed to win…
Why Do The Uninsured Hate ObamaCare?
A new survey shows that ObamaCare is less popular with the uninsured than with the public. How is this even possible? The January Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows…
The real jobs debate
The article below discusses the push in Illinois to raise the minimum wage to $10 and hour. While we cannot endorse each point made in the article, it does a…
Dwindling Economic Freedom
by Terry Miller World economic freedom has reached record levels, according to the 2014 Index of Economic Freedom, released Tuesday by the Heritage Foundation and The Wall Street Journal. But…
Keystone XL approval is one executive action the nation would embrace
Members of President Barack Obama’s team made it clear this past weekend that Obama will use part of his State of the Union speech Tuesday night to send a message…
The Inequality Bogeyman
by Thomas Sowell During a recent lunch in a restaurant, someone complimented my wife on the perfume she was wearing. But I was wholly unaware that she was wearing perfume,…
The Administration’s Poor Record on Poverty
by Frank Donatelli President Obama’s State of the Union address will focus on “income inequality.” One can understand why he wants to change the subject from the very real problems…
Is Barack Obama an imperial president?
President Obama’s use of executive action to get around congressional gridlock is unparalleled in modern times, some scholars say. But to liberal activists, he’s not going far enough. by Linda…
Fact Free Policy Debates: Part IV
by Thomas Sowell One of the things that attracted me to the political left, as a young man, was a belief that leftists were for “the people.” Fortunately, I was…