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October 2013

October 24, 2013

Behind the HealthCare.gov fiasco

We are learning that the problems with HealthCare.gov, the website that is the portal to...

October 23, 2013

ObamaCare and the end of nonprofit hospitals?

Nonprofit hospitals are defined as those that devote at least 3% (or in some states...

October 17, 2013

How government funding hurts the arts

Conservatives usually complain about government funding of the arts because they see taxpayer money going...

October 17, 2013

Congress stops default & ends shutdown

Cutting it close as usual, on the day before the government would run out of...

October 16, 2013

Democrats up the ante on default bill

It looked like Congress was close to an agreement on funding the government and avoiding...

October 15, 2013

Punitive Liberalism

If you watch old movies, read books from the first half of the 20th century,...

October 14, 2013

States fare differently under Obamacare

More quirks in Obamacare: The same policy from the same insurer with the same coverage...

October 08, 2013

Self-interest vs. ideology

Is it better in the realm of politics to stand on principle or to pursue...

October 08, 2013

From shutdown to default

I remember the government shutdown of 1995 and the huge uproar it caused among the...

October 07, 2013

The Obamacare rollout debacle

Obamacare got off to an inauspicious start as the website that people were supposed to...

October 01, 2013

The government is shut down

Lawmakers were unable to come up with a compromise to keep the federal government open,...

October 01, 2013

Check out the Obamacare insurance exchange

Today the Obamacare insurance exchanges go live. Everyone without health insurance must buy some, under...

September 2013

September 30, 2013

Shutdown countdown

The federal government runs out of money at the end of the day today and...

September 30, 2013

The shift from freedom to tolerance

Liberals used to champion individual freedom, including religious liberty. But, argues Family Policy Institute scholar...

September 30, 2013

Republicans as the new 1989 Democrats

Today's Republican party is in exactly the same situation as the Democratic party of 1989...

September 27, 2013

The casino-government complex

More and more states are not only legalizing gambling, they are cashing in on it,...

September 24, 2013

How about delaying Obamacare?

Kathleen Parker says that we should at least delay the implementation of Obamacare (the major...

September 23, 2013

Is religious liberty for individuals or just churches?

Mollie Hemingway has written a piece in the Wall Street Journal about the impact of...

September 23, 2013

The Republican alternative to Obamacare

Conservatives in Congress put forward their proposed alternative to Obamacare. It basically expands health savings...

September 20, 2013

Supreme Court to consider Morning After pill mandate

The Supreme Court is considering whether or not to hear a case involving a Christian...

September 19, 2013

Defund Obamacare or shut down the government

Republicans in Congress say they will agree to stop the impending shutdown of the federal...

September 18, 2013

The Left-Right coalition

The same Congressional coalition of Tea Party conservatives and far-left liberals that blocked an attack...

September 18, 2013

Obamacare and confidentiality

One of the features of Obamacare is to require electronic medical records, which will supposedly...

September 17, 2013

Defining who gets Constitutional rights

A Senate committee approved a "media shield" bill designed to protect journalists from having to...

September 16, 2013

U.S. & Russia agree on Syria plan

So should Vladimir Putin get the Nobel Peace Prize? Does this get President Obama out...

September 13, 2013

Illegal dinner parties

New York City is being plagued by a shocking crime that is being committed at...

September 13, 2013

Seceding from the state

The Civil War established the principle that states are not allowed to secede from the...

September 12, 2013

Colorado throws out anti-gun lawmakers

Citizens of Colorado voted for the right to smoke marijuana, but they have also voted...

September 12, 2013

Collective bargaining through government power

Labor unions have been having a hard time of it. So union activists have announced...

September 11, 2013

The President’s speech

So what did you think of the President's speech on Syria? Did it make any...