The Senate voted Wednesday on a pointless political exercise - whether to proceed on a bill based on the premise that the Hobby Lobby decision by the Supreme Court erodes the right to use...
Tens of thousands more will come unless we act humanely
Above: A Customs and Border Patrol agent distributes juice to illegal immigrants at a McAllen, Texas, Border Patrol station. CBP photo by Hector Silva.I said the other day that true...
True compassion: No more parents putting their kids on ‘The Beast’
As I pointed out Wednesday when the Senate Homeland Security committee discussed the sudden new wave of illegal immigrant children, the right question is, "How do we stop the flow?"America is a...
What actually works for the unemployed: North Carolina and jobs
Things may be getting better soon for people left without a job: The extended-benefits program for the unemployed expired nationwide Jan. 1 and hasn't been reinstated. How can this help? Because the...
How the Affordable Care Act will make Wisconsin health coverage unaffordable
The Affordable Care Act is about to become much less so, writes Stephen Parente, a professor of health finance at the University of Minnesota, in the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel. Wisconsin is about...
How to give people raises
For months, President Obama and Majority Leader Reid have insisted that raising the minimum wage is the way to give hard-working Americans a raise. Unlike the president or members of Congress who...
Worse to come for Obamacare in 2017
If you think Obamacare is a mess now, wait until 2017, writes health care scholar Stephen Parente in the Wall Street Journal.Parente, at the University of Minnesota, writes that the structural...
Canada’s useful lessons on health care
As Obamacare is revealed to be a bigger failure than anyone predicted, we can't expect that liberals who believe that increasing the size and scope of government is always the solution will just...
Couple makes Obamacare work – by dropping out
A crucial mistake by the designers of the Orwellian-named "Affordable Care Act" is that they thought they could design a health care plan. They felt they could re-engineer how a whole country would...
Making law school free has consequences, it turns out
Has the deluge of federal aid to students - about $2 trillion worth since the 1960s - had an unintended effect of increasing the inflation of college costs? It is certainly at least a...