Largest health insurer on Colorado exchange collapses
80,000 or so Coloradans will need to find a new insurer for 2016. by Associated Press • KRDO.com Colorado’s biggest nonprofit health insurer is closing, forcing 80,000…
IRS needs a housecleaning, not retention bonuses
by Washington Examiner Earlier this year, Internal Revenue Service Commissioner John Koskinen warned taxpayers that they would suffer delays and poor service from his agency during tax time. In doing…
ObamaCare’s latest victims: 100,000 New Yorkers and taxpayers everywhere
By Betsy McCaughey • New York Post Bad news for New Yorkers, thanks to ObamaCare: More than 100,000 policyholders just learned that their Health Republic insurance…
Jobs Report: Disappointment Is Routine With This Administration
by Investor’s Business Daily Friday’s jobs report has us feeling like Bill Murray in “Groundhog Day”: waking up morning after morning to the radio blaring Sonny and Cher’s “I’ve Got You…
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Voluntary initiative to stop ad-supported piracy
The winners: consumers, content providers, and advertisers The losers: pirates, malware, viruses, and thieves The internet has been a huge engine for commerce. You can go online to by just…
Federal Taxes Receipts At an All Time High
$2,883,250,000,000: Federal Taxes Set Record Through August; $19,346 Per Worker; Feds Still Run $530B Deficit By Terence P. Jeffrey • Investor’s Business Daily The federal government…
U.S. drops to 16th on ‘economic freedom’ list, behind Canada, Chile
By PAUL BEDARD • Washington Examiner The United States, ranked second in worldwide economic freedom as recently as 2000, has plummeted to 16th, according to a…
Look Who’s Bashing Obama’s Economy Now
Investor’s Business Daily 2016: Presidential candidates, both announced and prospective, used Labor Day to fire off some pretty harsh criticisms of President Obama’s economy. That’s not news. What is news…
Report: Low-Income Entitlements Make Recipients Less Likely to Work
GAO finds Medicaid and housing assistance may cause lower labor force participation by Ali Meyer • Washington Free Beacon Government entitlement programs such as Medicaid and…
The NLRB’s Power Grab
By The Editors • National Review Why should a union representing workers who are not employees of McDonald’s be empowered to squeeze concessions out of McDonald’s?…
Why Does U.S. Economic Performance Continue To Decline?
by Francis Menton • Manhattan Contrarian The government’s latest GDP numbers, through Q2 2015, are now out, and they include some revisions to Q1, as well…
The Obama economy has SERIOUS problems
by Heather Long • CNN High on the Republican presidential candidates’ list of talking points is the Obama economy. Specifically, bashing it. They have some grist…
Lois Lerner’s IRS Granted Only ONE Conservative Group Non-Profit Status in Three Years
by Alexander Hendrie • Americans for Tax Reform Lois Lerner’s political beliefs led to tea party and conservative groups receiving disparate and unfair treatment when applying for…
USPS is losing sight of public safety
By George Landrith • The Hill When it comes to the U.S. Postal Service, the organization’s decline has been well documented for years. Last year the…
U.S. Postal Service mail standards keep getting worse
Problems include services cut in rural areas but increase in big cities; processing facilities consolidated, impacting ability to meet delivery goals; new services that result in significant losses by George…