37th Governor of Nebraska
• In case you missed it, Rep. Virginia Foxx, R-5th District, winner of the John Locke Foundation’s James K. Polk Award for Leadership in Public Office, last week paid tribute…
Remember how, on Christmas Eve 2009, the U.S. Senate rushed to pass Obamacare by a 60-39 vote, with not one Republican voting for the monstrous bill that no one had…
Former John Locke Foundation Headliner John Gizzi of Human Events reports that the latest numbers suggest good news for Republicans seeking to capture control of the U.S. Senate. When Human…
North Carolina’s Democratic Sen. Kay Hagan voted with fellow Democrats in the Senate today to table an amendment that would have allowed employers and insurers to opt out of provisions…
Labeling him “The Enforcer,” the latest Bloomberg Businessweek details Grover Norquist’s single-minded pursuit of the goal of no increases in tax rates. The head of Americans for Tax Reform has…
Much of the speculation about the 2012 election focuses on President Obama’s chances for re-election, but a Newsweek profile of first-term Democratic Sen. Jon Tester of Montana reminds us that…
She joined five other Democrats to vote against the bill: The DREAM Act cloture vote just failed in the Senate, 55 to 41. The cloture vote was on the version…
ObamaCare restricts how states can save money on Medicaid until they take on larger burdens they can’t afford in 2014. North Carolina has a $3.2 billion spending overhang going into…
At a panel discussion sponsored by the North Carolina Institute for Constitutional Law (NCICL), Adam Linker of the NC Justice Center was hesitant to say the health law passed in…
If you want to expand the number of poor people on Medicaid even though it is worse than private insurance, claim that it will provide universal coverage even though it…
Ed Schultz is mad. Not because the MSNBC host’s ratings are in the garbage disposal compared to anyone on FOX News. And not because of those evil Republicans and ?tea…
Yesterday, Rick blogged on Bart Stupak’s growing optimism about a health-care reform compromise, pro-life objections not withstanding. But The Weekly Standard here gives some context to Stupak’s statement: Michigan Democrat…