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…
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…
And it isn’t likely to get better anytime soon … by Peter Suderman The Obama administration doesn’t want to talk about Obamacare. At a press briefing on Tuesday, White House…
by Peter Roff They don’t call it “Government Motors” for nothing. Once one of the “bluest” of America’s blue chip corporations, General Motors has seen better days. Early in President…
First came Lois Lerner, who planted a question at an American Bar Association conference to get ahead of an inspector general finding that the IRS had unfairly targeted conservative organizations.…
The deceptions and disasters of Obamacare Breaking Bad is the story of a seemingly well-intended but very misguided man who turned to cooking meth in order to amass enough wealth…
For furloughed workers, the federal government shutdown has clearly had an impact. But for most citizens, the shutdown has been notable for largely going unnoticed. That’s not because federal officials…
Unless Mr. Obama is willing to make a serious deal on spending, he will spend the next three years fighting the same budget wars over and over. For months now,…
One remarkable aspect of the shutdown/debt limit battle is the irresponsibility (on the part of the Obama administration) and incompetence (on the part of the news media) concerning the claim…
Word came this week that the National Institutes of Health has suspended therapy-dog visits to sick children at its clinical center because of a 25% reduction in staff, even though…
Many unhappy returns began a hundred years ago, in October 1913. by John Fund Amid all the attention paid to the government shutdown — more of a “slimdown,” as 83…
Eight cents out of every federal non-defense dollar represents a transfer from taxpayer to recipient. Entitlement transfers do not require annual Congressional approval. They can be changed only by entitlement…
“We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting,” an angry Park Service ranger said. “It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation.” That’s an…
Although President Obama claims that he can’t avoid shutting down public sites and monuments, war memorials were in fact kept open during the 1995/1996 government shutdowns. The administration’s decision to…
Mid-20th-century assumptions of generational progress no longer obtain. A few years ago, after the publication of my book America Alone, an exasperated reader wrote to advise me to lighten up,…