Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is executive at company that built expensive but awful ObamaCare website
First Lady Michelle Obama’s Princeton classmate is a top executive at the company that earned the contract to build the failed Obamacare website. Toni Townes-Whitley, Princeton class of ’85, is…
Census Bureau: Means-Tested Gov’t Benefit Recipients Outnumber Full-Time Year-Round Workers
Americans who were recipients of means-tested government benefits in 2011 outnumbered year-round full-time workers, according to data released this month by the Census Bureau. There were 108,592,000 people in the…
Health insurance premiums will almost double in Wisconsin
Health-care premiums in Wisconsin will almost double under Obamacare, compared with their current rates, according to a report from the MacIver Institute. The state’s free-market think tank figured the average…
Clean vs. Dirty: By the Numbers
by Gordon S. Jones More people are employed in green energy than in fossil fuel energy. So says Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) in a recent speech, relying on numbers generated…
ObamaCare: It is worse than we know … and it may get worse
It’s worse than we know, this is the easy part, and millions of Americans could be hurt. by Ron Fournier • The National Journal President Obama said Monday he’s “frustrated”…
CBSNEWS: Government Website Underestimates Cost of Insurance
CBS News has uncovered a serious pricing problem with HealthCare.gov. It stems from the Obama administration’s efforts to improve its health care website. A new online feature can dramatically underestimate…
Feds instruct Blue Cross Blue Shield not to release exchange numbers
The Obama administration asked North Dakota’s largest health insurer not to publicize how many people have signed up for health insurance through a new online exchange, a company official says.…
Consumer Reports Says Stay Away from HealthCare.gov
Consumer Reports, which publishes reviews of consumer products and services, advised its readers to avoid the federal health-care exchange “for at least another month if you can.” “Hopefully that will…
Obama’s fingerprints all over the IRS scandal
It’s past time for the media to begin asking President Obama tough questions about the IRS conservative targeting scandal. After all he was involved, publicly, from the beginning. Last Friday,…
Food Stamp Bonanza Proof of Abused System
Ever wonder why generous people become outraged over food stamps? Look no further than two Louisiana Walmarts. A week ago, the technology that assessed spending limits on debit cards for…
ObamaCare is Failing Ahead of Schedule
by Ross Douthat • New York Times THIS is not the column about the Obamacare rollout I expected to write. If you had told me, months ago, that weeks…
Debt and Deficit are still the Problem
by Rand Paul During the shutdown, 85 percent of government stayed open despite the hoopla reported in the media. Government is now 100 percent open. Debt-ceiling deadlines have been averted,…
Secretary Sebelius has time to talk with Jon Stewart, but not with Congress
The HHS Secretary refuses to testify about ObamaCare’s rollout. The Affordable Care Act’s botched rollout has stunned its media cheering section, and it even seems to have surprised the law’s…
ObamaCare is far worse than it looks
It’s a sign not just of bad health-care policy, but of greater systemic problems. One of the most hackneyed lines in the apparently endless and sterile partisan tug-of-war in Washington…
2013 ranks as one of the least extreme U.S. weather years ever’
Many bad weather events are at ‘historically low levels.’ ‘Whether you’re talking about tornadoes, wildfires, extreme heat or hurricanes, the good news is that weather-related disasters in the US are…