Minnesota insurance broker Jim Koester was looking for information about assisting with Obamacare implementation; instead, what landed in his inbox was a document filled with the names, Social Security numbers…
Eight cents out of every federal non-defense dollar represents a transfer from taxpayer to recipient. Entitlement transfers do not require annual Congressional approval. They can be changed only by entitlement…
How those accusing others of strapping bombs to their chest are corrupting the public discourse, debasing our political institutions, and violating the law. by George Landrith Several days before the…
“We’ve been told to make life as difficult for people as we can. It’s disgusting,” an angry Park Service ranger said. “It’s a cheap way to deal with the situation.” That’s an…
More than three and a half years after the Democrats passed Obamacare into law, the overhaul’s exchanges — its East German–like government marketplaces — finally, sort of, open for business.…
Although President Obama claims that he can’t avoid shutting down public sites and monuments, war memorials were in fact kept open during the 1995/1996 government shutdowns. The administration’s decision to…
Grocery stores on Army bases in the U.S. are closed. The golf course at Andrews Air Force base is open. All 128 employees of the Saint Lawrence Seaway Development Corp.…
Come 2014, the government’s damaged brand will reflect poorly on the President and his party. So last week, while most of the country was talking about football or fears of…
The IPCC’s call to phase out fossil fuels is economic nonsense and ‘morally outrageous’ for the developing world. On Friday, the UN published its landmark report into climate change, which…
Mid-20th-century assumptions of generational progress no longer obtain. A few years ago, after the publication of my book America Alone, an exasperated reader wrote to advise me to lighten up,…
The National Security Agency has admitted that analysts have abused their authority to spy on love interests on several occasions. In response to a letter from Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa),…
by Peter Roff The short narrative, compiled by people with even shorter memories, is that the United States government got to the brink of a shutdown because the unreasonable House…
by Kerri Houston Tolozcko In June 2011, the Defense Department’s Office of the Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction (SIGIR) released a scathing report on a defense contracting company called…
Since 2010, the National Security Agency has been exploiting its huge collections of data to create sophisticated graphs of some Americans’ social connections that can identify their associates, their locations…
September 20, 2013 Governor Scott Walker P.O. Box 7863 Madison, WI 53707-7863 Dear Governor Walker: We are writing to thank you for putting forward family and job friendly criteria…