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Amid calls on the political Right to repeal Obamacare, Ramesh Ponnuru‘s latest column at National Review Online asks conservatives to focus on the issue of ensuring access to health insurance.…
Joseph Lawler reports for the Washington Examiner on behind-the-scenes congressional discussions involving the future of the Affordable Care Act, especially if the U.S. Supreme Court chucks much of the law’s…
Congress is in recess this week. They are scheduled to return the week of April 13th. Here are some of the major actions that took place last week… The House…
Jim McTague of Barron’s focuses his latest “D.C. Current” column on Washington gridlock. Ah, Washington! We have our own, twisted version of Isaac Newton’s famous third law: For every action,…
Cue the Lalo Schifrin music, as Jim McTague‘s latest “D.C. Current” column in Barron’s focuses on the prospects for a balanced federal budget. Tom Cruise, step aside. Republicans are about…
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John Stossel‘s latest column at Human Events focuses on problems created by the federal government’s 50-year “war” on poverty. Fifty years ago, President Lyndon Johnson declared “War on Poverty.” It…
Donald Lambro laments for Human Events readers that the handful of Washington politicians willing to slow the flow of wasted taxpayer dollars have had little luck to date. Federal spending…
Last Friday the Financial Services Committee in Congress sent out a press release stating they were going to begin a hearing series on the national debt. Hopefully this series of…
Editors at Bloomberg Businessweek are no fans of former Republican vice presidential candidate Paul Ryan, as evidenced by their characterization as “hyperbolic rhetoric” Ryan’s 2011 assertion that the federal government…
While Jim McTague of Barron’s seems to place too much value on the notion of Congress “doing something” — even if that “something” has long-term, unintended negative consequences — his…
Krugman now: Paring back on generous unemployment benefits is cruel … and meanspirited! In general, modern conservatives believe that our national character is being sapped by social programs that, in…