After a Month of Trying, I Still Can’t Sign Up for Obamacare
by Ike Brannon After a month of trying, I still can’t complete an application to join the D.C. Health Exchange. For a week, the Obamacare marketplace asked me to prove…
What America Still Can Learn From the Iron Lady
by Matt Naham When Margaret Thatcher passed from this world on April 8, myriad books followed. Consequently, an exclusively eulogistic feel characterizes many of these works. Catalogues of the Iron…
2013 Will Finish One Of The Ten Coldest Years In US History
Before NASA and NOAA start tampering with the data, 2013 is one of the ten coldest years in the US since 1895, and has had the largest year over year…
Ronald Reagan’s Christmas Messages
“In this day, when our freedom to worship is most precious, let us redouble our efforts to bring this and other greatest freedoms to all the peoples of the Earth.”…
How to be Rich Without Scrooge’s Money
George Bailey vs. Ebenezer Scrooge by Gordon S. Jones “At this season of the rolling year” every community theater in America is playing either some variant of A Christmas Carol…
December 25, 1776: George Washington’s Christmas night raid
“The great Christmas night raid in 1776 would forever serve as a model of how a special operation – or a conventional mission, for that matter – might be successfully…
How radical Obamacare really is …
The federal government now runs the insurance market, dictating deadlines, procedures, rates, risk assessments and coverage requirements. It’s gotten so cocky it’s now telling insurers to cover the claims that,…
A Misguided Obsession with Inequality
Obama uses misleading statistics that ignore taxes and transfer payments. Faster economic and job growth is what the poor really need. by Robert E. Grady In his widely noted speech,…
What about jobs?
The country needs jobs, not more jobless benefits. Congress and the White House have completely lost sight of this. One blessing of the holiday season is upon us: The prospect that…
Rising incomes matter more than disparity
Economic growth benefits all. Obama’s focus on income brackets and disparity doesn’t create more growth, wealth or opportunity. It is merely focuses on redistribution. If President Obama is to be…
Obama Repeals ObamaCare
Under pressure from Senate Democrats, the President partly suspends the individual mandate. It seems Nancy Pelosi was wrong when she said “we have to pass” ObamaCare to “find out what’s…
If You’re Upset, Be Upset for the Right Reasons
by Peter Roff These days almost everyone has a blog or a column or a podcast or some means of participating in the national conversation that goes on daily about,…
Obama’s Disdain For The Constitution
by M. Northrop Buechner Since President Obama signed the Affordable Care Act into law, he has changed it five times. Most notably, he suspended the employer mandate last summer. This…
Minimum Wage Hammers Youth
by Phil Kerpen With Democrats cratering in the polls over their collapsing health care law, they are trying to pivot to the only part of their policy agenda that still…
America’s aversion to big government
As the fifth year of the Obama presidency draws to a close, it may be time to examine the unspoken but powerful assumption behind the policies of the president and…