Bled Dry by the New Class
Bureaucrats push pencils at the expense of real workers by Glenn Harlan Reynolds Life is hard. It’s harder still when an entire class of people with their hands out stands…
ObamaCare is harming millions of Americans
by Byron York To hear administration officials and their supporters in the press tell it, this is a great time for Obamacare. People who signed up for coverage are actually…
Canada Is No Model for Health Care
by Jason Clemens and Bacchus Barua The heated and often emotionally charged debate over the Affordable Care Act (aka Obamacare) hasn’t subsided despite it being the law of the land…
Regulators Wreck Innovation
Ride-share services benefit consumers, but the taxi commission doesn’t want to give us a good deal. by Glenn Harlan Reynolds The regulatory knives are out for Uber and Lyft, two…
America: Beware of Single-Payer Health Care
The real lesson of the VA scandal. by W. James Antle III Before Bowe Bergdahl dominated the headlines, the country was engrossed by the Veterans Affairs scandal. The VA was…
Unions Slam New EPA Carbon Rules
by Lachlan Markay Labor unions criticized the Environmental Protection Agency’s new regulations on carbon emissions from power plants on last Monday, highlighting growing tensions between the environmentalist and working class…
VA Scandal Further Discredits Obama’s Big Government Policies
Long queues are the price of free care. by Michael Barone President Obama evidently was caught by surprise by the scandal at the Department of Veterans Affairs. So, apparently, was…
EPA Quietly Signs Off on State Carbon Taxes
The agency didn’t mention it in the new climate rules, but the plan would allow states to place a levy on greenhouse gases. by Ben Geman EPA’s big new draft…
Why impose a 1908 “First Sale” Rule on a Modern and Evolving Internet-based Marketplace?
“Copyright law has historically protected the right of the creator to exclusively distribute their work. This is important because it gives creators the ability to profit from their creation which…
Cap and Trade: Hammering the Poor … Again
by Diana Furchtgott-Roth President Obama has called inequality “the defining challenge of our time.” But on June 2 he will announce new “cap-and-trade” environmental regulations that will make the poor…
Economy Looking Sick … Again
by Megan McArdle Last month, when the Bureau of Economic Analysis announced that gross domestic product had grown at a lead-footed rate of 0.1 percent in the first quarter, economic…
What Obama’s Many Messes Really Mean
Dems blame . . . big government? by S.E. Cupp Another week, another scandal. From Fast and Furious at the ATF to the Pigford fraud at the Department of Agriculture,…
The Copyright Alert System is Working
George Landrith, President of Frontiers of Freedom, made the following statement on May 28, 2014 about the Copyright Alert System: “The Copyright Alert System (CAS) is a voluntary initiative between…
The VA is Socialist Health Care Paradise
by Rich Lowry For the left, the Department of Veterans Affairs is how health care is ideally supposed to work. No insurance companies, no private doctors, no competition — just…
More Problems and Arguments Lie Ahead with ObamaCare
Those who want to leave ObamaCare as it is are outnumbered more than 5 to 1 by those who want to repeal or change it. by James Taranto President Obama…