Inflated, inaccurate numbers
by Byron York Democrats from President Obama on down have been touting Obamacare’s sign-up numbers. Even after the system’s disastrous rollout, they like to point out, roughly three million people…
Health-care myths we live by
by Charles Krauthammer Swedish researchers report that antioxidants make cancers worse in mice. It’s already known that the antioxidant beta-carotene exacerbates lung cancers in humans. Not exactly what you’d expect given…
No plausible reasons left to reject the Keystone Pipeline
White House Chief of Staff Denis McDonough discussed with NBC News’ David Gregory the administration’s foot-dragging on the Keystone XL pipeline. The Sunday interview came in the wake of the…
The IRS’ New Target: The First Amendment
Proposed rules governing political groups are surely unconstitutional. by Peter Roff President Barack Obama can be forgiven for telling Fox News’ Bill O’Reilly that there wasn’t a “smidgen” of corruption…
IRS ‘Confusion’? Hardly!
New evidence undercuts White House claims that the IRS was merely confused about the law and never purposefully targeted conservatives. IRS e-mail shows they were secretly planning the recently proposed regulations which essentially…
CBO: Devastating Obamacare Facts
Then Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi said at the time of the passage of the Affordable Care Act (aka ObamaCare) that we had to pass it to find out…
Obamacare will reduce incomes of most Americans
There’s no doubt the Affordable Care Act will redistribute wealth in America. People at the top of the income ladder will pay more; people at the bottom will benefit. But…
“Not even smidgen of corruption…” Really?
by George Landrith On Super Bowl Sunday, President Obama was interviewed by Bill O’Reilly. In that interview, he claimed that there was zero evidence of any scandal or corruption in…
Obama Using the IRS to Quash Dissent
by George Landrith When the House Ways & Means Subcommittee on Oversight grills the Internal Revenue Service’s John Koskinen next week about his scandal-plagued agency, it would do well to…
Obama: If you like your privacy, you can keep it
by George Landrith President Barack Obama had too little to say about the needed reforms at the National Security Agency in Tuesday’s State of the Union address. His previous comments…
Stoking class warfare to win midterm elections
Income Inequality talk is not about helping the poor, its about trying to cling to power. Sadly, the American dream is in trouble precisely because of policies designed to win…
A fracking good story missed by the media
by Christopher Harper The United States has become the largest producer of oil and natural gas in the world, surpassing Russia and Saudi Arabia, according to the U.S. Department of…
We Need G.M.O. Wheat
by Jayson Lusk and Henry I. Miller • The New York Times THREE crops — corn, soybeans and wheat — account for a vast majority of…
Why Do The Uninsured Hate ObamaCare?
A new survey shows that ObamaCare is less popular with the uninsured than with the public. How is this even possible? The January Kaiser Family Foundation health tracking poll shows…
Keystone Cop Cop-out on Pipeline
by Charles Krauthammer Fixated as we Americans are on Canada’s three most attention-getting exports — polar vortexes, Alberta clippers, and the antics of Toronto’s addled mayor — we’ve somewhat overlooked…