It's sad that some political commentators are speculating that conservatives may be less able to "use" Obamacare as an issue as the federal government gradually improves the technical problems that...
Why does government think it ought to make you give up bacon?
Do you think that meat costs a lot at the grocery store now? It just may get still more expensive, thanks to your government.Jayson Lusk, a professor of economics at Oklahoma State University,...
How to help low-skill workers if you don’t want to punish business
President Obama says he cares about people whose job skills don't earn them much more than minimum wage. He says that's why he wants to raise the minimum wage - he says that will mean these...
The incredible shrinking Obamacare
Remember the triumphant tone that the Obama administration took about the number of people who signed up for insurance plans on the Obamacare exchanges? Eight million people had signed up, Democrats...
What I said, what the newspaper imagined, and what the facts are
It's a dirty trick that the federal government has played on young Americans, luring them into about a trillion dollars of student debt. This readily available money has insulated students from the...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Why I took President Barack Obama to court
During the week of July 4, as we celebrated our country's independence from the rule of kings and renewed our commitment to the rule of law, President Barack Obama explained his own unique...
Four years of wrong diagnosis, wrong cure
It has been four years since Congress passed the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act, a misbegotten mess of 2,300 pages that spawned uncounted pages of new regulations. The...
America struggles in a part-time recovery
The economy is technically recovering from the recession, but Mort Zuckerman pointed out in the Wall Street Journal why it doesn't feel like much of a recovery: It's because so much of America is...
‘Are we prepared to be overwhelmed?’
When we think about what to do about the flood of unaccompanied children pouring illegally across our southern border, we have to look for the root cause, and we have to do that compassionately. As...
Religious freedom is at stake
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...
The Department of Technical Difficulties
About one in four people who signed up for health coverage on the government-run exchanges of Obamacare have "inconsistencies" in their information, the administration says. That's more than 2...