Originally published in The Wall Street Journal, April 13, 2015Early this summer the Supreme Court will render a decision on King v. Burwell, the case challenging the IRS workaround that allows...
The Hill: Government must encourage cyber threat information sharing to combat hacking
Originally printed in The Hill, March 9. 2015.In such uncertain times, Americans are justifiably seeking safety and security. That extends to their lives in cyberspace, where threats are poorly...
A good year – thanks to the president being ignored
Remember one year ago, when President Obama was claiming that unless Republicans again renewed the temporary, extra-long unemployment benefits enacted in the depths of the recession, the economy...
Health care reality catches up with experts at Harvard
The faculty of Harvard is in an uproar, the New York Times reports - the changes to employee health coverage that already hit almost everyone else in America have come to the elite...
The liberal health care dream blows up
Vermont is a model for America on health care, the Wall Street Journal sensibly pointed out earlier this week. That's because Vermont is "where the purest progressive version of ObamaCare has...
A justified ‘honor’ for a money-throwing federal agency
Federal Communications Commission Chairman Tom Wheeler won an award last week that he probably won't take pride in. Citizens against Government Waste named Wheeler the December Porker of the...
How Congress has given up two-thirds of its control over budgets
It's always good to see anyone start to acknowledge the outlines of a problem - that's the first step toward solving it. So I was glad that the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's "PolitiFact" desk said I...
They knew all along it was the Affordable* Care Act
The newly exposed videos of Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber revealing that the "Affordable" Care Act was sold to America with lies is a scandal, but not because it's a shock.Instead, they're a...
Liberals figure you need a comic book, not the truth
It isn't just that Obamacare was sold on a foundation of lies, as the newly revealed videos from Obamacare architect Jonathan Gruber show. What is even worse is the way the Obama administration...
We have to try to help
I received this email from a Milwaukee woman the other day:"I support President Obama 110%, but I have to tell you that Obamacare is NOT working for my family. The policies are just terrible and...
Obamacare: Dishonest from the start
It's scandalous that economics professor Jonathan Gruber has been caught on video saying that Obamacare was pushed through Congress on the basis of a pack of lies because Gruber is rightly...
No, it’s not surprising that Obamacare hid its costs from the public
The news that the economist dubbed the "architect of Obamacare" was caught admitting that the program deliberately hid the cost from the American public is disappointing. It isn't surprising.Avik...
Thanks to Obamacare, more employers shifting health care costs on to you
Small companies are increasingly dropping the idea of providing their employees with health insurance, the Wall Street Journal reports, and assuming that workers instead will be fine if they're...
Next year’s premiums? Wisconsinites are suffering from Obamacare already
A new report finds sharp increases in the cost of health coverage under Obamacare. The Washington Times reported that the study found premiums could rise for some people "by as much as 78 percent."I...
Less affordable health care, thanks to the Affordable Care Act
People with costly chronic medical conditions are getting health coverage thanks to Obamacare, the New York Times reports - but they're finding they can barely afford the high deductibles."Patricia...
How to destroy American innovation
When I describe Obamacare as the greatest assault on our freedom in my lifetime, I can cite many reasons, from the massive tax increases to the incredible pile of new regulations to the...
Making health insurance as pleasant as filing taxes
The first word in the laughably misnamed "Affordable Care Act" refers to the way that Obamacare is supposed to lower the cost of health care.The president promised infamously that his plan would cut...
The unaffordable economics of the ‘Affordable Care Act’
The "Affordable" Care Act, President Obama's perversely named disruption of health care, continues to be something America does not want, according to pollsters at the respected Kaiser Family...
I will protect free speech, not incumbents’ seats
This week the Senate is taking up political votes to help protect Harry Reid's vulnerable Senate Democrats. Forty-six Senate Democrats have proposed Senate Joint Resolution 19, a measure to...
The health care law that makes it unaffordable to work
Kevin Glass writes at Townhall about the telling admission from the Congressional Budget Office last week about Obamacare: It will discourage some people from working.The CBO, which is...