The Number of ObamaCare Losers Grows
by Jonathan S. Tobin The decision by the Target Corporation to join Trader Joe’s, Home Depot, and other retailers and end health-insurance coverage for part-time employees brings both good news…
Fact Free Policy Debates: Part III
by Thomas Sowell Since this year will mark the 50th anniversary of the “war on poverty,” we can expect many comments and commemorations of this landmark legislation in the development…
Fact Free Policy Debates: Part II
by Thomas Sowell Words seem to carry far more weight than facts among those liberals who argue as if rent control laws actually control rents and gun control laws actually…
Moody’s slashes outlook on insurers, cites Obamacare ‘uncertainty’
by Philip Klein Credit ratings firm Moody’s Investors Service on Thursday lowered its outlook for health insurers to “negative” from “stable,” citing “uncertainty” swirling around the rollout of President Obama’s health…
The IRS is now targeting conservatives in Hollywood
by Michael Cieply and Nicholas Confessore • New York Times In a famously left-leaning Hollywood, where Democratic fund-raisers fill the social calendar, Friends of Abe stands out as a conservative…
Government needs trust to effectively govern, but trust is at historic lows
From the IRS to the NSA, Americans have sound and reasonable reasons not to trust the Obama Administration. by Glenn Harlan Reynolds At a tax symposium at Pepperdine Law School…
Fact free policy debates
by Thomas Sowell Someone summarized Barack Obama in three words — “educated,” “smart” and “ignorant.” Unfortunately, those same three words would describe all too many of the people who come…
Wall Street Advisor: Aactual unemployment is 37.2%, ‘misery index’ worst in 40 years
by Paul Bedard Don’t believe the happy talk coming out of the White House, Federal Reserve and Treasury Department when it comes to the real unemployment rate and the true…
To save lives, reform the FDA
by Peter Roff America has the best health care system in the world. The same freedoms we all enjoy that produce innovations and advancement in technology, in manufacturing, in finance,…
Spending bill bans IRS targeting, preserves incandescent light bulbs
by Stephen Dinan Congressional negotiators reached a deal late Monday on a massive spending bill to fund the government for the rest of 2014, agreeing to undo last year’s cut…
A Victory for an Unfettered Internet
After another court loss, the FCC should abandon its ‘net neutrality’ regulation goal. by Robert McDowell A federal appeals court in Washington slapped the Federal Communications Commission on Tuesday for…
How Big Government Policies Kill Jobs and Opportunity
To reduce unemployment, we need a free market in labor. by Richard A. Epstein The latest government labor report indicates that job growth has slowed once again. It is now at a…
Affordable Care Act Hurts Twice As Many As It Helps
by Betsy McCaughey In 2014, 25 million to 30 million Americans who have employer-provided health insurance are likely to lose it, thanks to ObamaCare’s requirement that all plans cover what…
Feckless Attacks on Income Inequality
by Michael Barone As Barack Obama scrambles to eviscerate key sections of his own signature health care law, he and other Democrats are trying to shift voters’ focus to another issue…
Weak Economy: For every new job, five have given up
The recent job report was disappointing on several different levels. The new jobs number was appalling. The number of new jobs, 74,000 doesn’t even keep up with population growth. In…