Why Are Obamacare Stats So Hard to Get?
How many people have signed up for Obamacare? You’d think it’d be easier to get an answer to such a simple question. But no one knows how to answer, least of all the people who are supposed to have the information. Updates don’t come very often, and when they are given, they often contradict. For […]
National Debt Reaches New Milestone: $18 Trillion
This milestone is not a reason for celebration. Fox News reports: The national debt has passed the $18 trillion mark, sparking renewed criticism Tuesday from Republicans and other fiscal conservatives over the soaring trajectory of government spending under President Obama. “This is a sad milestone for America,” Reince Priebus, chairman of the Republican National Committee, […]
Federal Government Makes Power Play on Education, Hopes You Don’t Notice
While you were thinking about cooking turkey and how to survive your weird uncle, the White House was trying to slide information out into the public without you noticing. They seem to have made it a tradition of dropping regulatory agendas into the public at the end of the week, right before holidays. This year […]
The Right Place for Generosity
On Thanksgiving Day in 1986, President Reagan gave a radio address to the American people on the subject of generosity. He emphasized that big government programs are no replacement for good work done by volunteers and the private sector. My, how times have changed! Not that the American people have changed, but our politicians certainly […]
Saturday Night Live Lesson on Executive Orders
“I’m Just A Bill” is a Schoolhouse Rock classic worthy of the elementary Top 10. Who can forget that little piece of paper’s longing to become a law? Or his excitement when the President actually signed him? “Oh, yeah!” Well, there will be no more waiting in committee for a certain immigration bill (one that […]
“My House Is Not For Sale”
Homeowners in Indiana are fighting a mayor who wants to bulldoze their neighborhood. Mayor Bob Hall of Charlestown, Indiana, applied for state grant money to remove 350 homes from the Pleasant Ridge neighborhood and put in a nicer development. The houses were bought by the Army in the 1940s as temporary housing for ammunition plant […]
Civil Asset Forfeiture is Worse than You Think
Have you heard about civil asset forfeiture? It’s an underhanded way the government can take citizens’ money without even charging them with a crime. And it’s even worse than federal agencies seizing small business owners’ bank accounts… police officers can also take cash away from unlucky travelers under this allowance or evict the parents of […]
Dumb and Dumber: The Left Believes a Myth about Obamacare
In the 1994 movie “Dumb and Dumber” one of the characters drives through the countryside in a van and says “according to the map, we’ve only gone four inches.” That’s dumb. But here’s what someone who’s supposed to be smart said recently about Americans. Jonathan Gruber, an economist who teaches at MIT and is the architect behind Obamacare, believes American voters are like the dumb guy in the van, unable […]
Do You Like Being Called Stupid?
It’s bad enough to be called stupid – but then for someone to say they’re glad you’re stupid so they can pull things over on you? That’s just insulting. And insulted is how every American should feel when they hear the comments made by Jonathan Gruber, an economist from MIT who helped write the Obamacare […]
Will Obamacare Survive the Supreme Court?
Do you remember this summer’s news that the writers of the Obamacare law left a significant loophole regarding subsidies? Basically, funding for the whole system could collapse because the law limited eligibility for tax breaks to people who purchased plans through state exchanges. The writers of the law didn’t know that 36 states wouldn’t even […]