American politician and physician (1948–2020)
The latest issue of Hillsdale College’s Imprimis features college president Larry Arnn‘s reactions to the COVID-19 pandemic. Among his topics is one high-profile agency at the heart of the federal…
The news of former U.S. Sen. Tom Coburn’s death at age 72 reminded me of my one conversation with him in 2017. Coburn was in Raleigh at the time to…
Tom Coburn writes for Fox Business about the role of price transparency in improving American health care. Democratic presidential primary candidates are spending a lot of time talking about health…
Noelle Callahan writes for TownHall.com about some of the most inexplicable research projects funded by American taxpayers. (They might remind you of Wake Forest’s “coked-up stimulus monkeys.”) And the winner…
Adam Andrzejewski and Tom Coburn argue in a Washington Examiner column that President Trump might be the right person to take real action to rein in federal government spending. While…
After overriding a veto from Gov. Roy Cooper, North Carolina lawmakers enacted a $23 billion General Fund budget for the new budget year that started this week. Becki Gray details…
A former U.S. senator who earned national recognition for fighting waste, fraud, and abuse within the federal government is now touting a tool to rein in that government. Tom Coburn…
Elizabeth Harrington of the Daily Caller highlights the latest egregious examples of wasteful federal government spending. The federal government spent millions of taxpayer dollars studying if women can pick Barbie…
Elizabeth Harrington of the Washington Free Beacon offers an amusing account of her recent trek to a high-dollar “science fair.” It was a strange feeling being notorious in a roomful…
Kathryn Watson of the Daily Caller reports skeptical reactions among congressional Republicans, including North Carolina’s Mark Meadows, to reports that the federal government needs years to compile a list of…
Paige Winfield Cunningham of the Washington Examiner interviews Tom Coburn, the recently retired Oklahoma senator, about problems plaguing the federal government. Washington Examiner: Now that you’re out of Congress, what…
With Tom Coburn retired now from the U.S. Senate, it appears that a freshman Republican U.S. representative hopes to take on the task of identifying some of the federal government’s…