Originally printed in The Washington Post, April 25, 2014We recently visited Norway, Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and Moldova. In each country, our allies want a stronger immediate response...
Stopping presidential overreach: The cause grows
You may have heard that I'm suing the Obama administration over its special deal for Congress on Obamacare. Now, colleagues in Congress are joining the cause: 38 senators and representatives have...
‘Covered’ is not the same as ‘getting healed’
The die-hard backers of Obamacare insist the Affordable Care Act is a success because more than a million people signed up for insurance coverage who didn't previously have health insurance.A story...
How will you pay your family’s $15,000 in regulatory costs?
It isn't just that the federal government has lots of regulations - and it does; the Code of Federal Regulation takes up more than 20 feet of shelf space - but that the government keeps producing...
What I think about many issues
It was a pleasure to talk to Wisconsinites gathered earlier this week at Waukesha County Technical College in Pewaukee. I had a chance to lay out some of the facts about the country's fiscal...
New face, same stinking mess
Kathleen Sebelius is out as chief implementer of Obamacare. Streiff at Red State sums up her thinking: "I've done all the damage I can do here, it is time to move on."The Wall Street Journal...
Conservatives unite behind my Obamacare lawsuit
Nearly two dozen conservative organizations have sent a letter to all U.S. senators urging them to sign onto an amicus brief in support of my lawsuit against the Office of Personnel Management...
The myth of 77 cents
It's been illegal to pay women less than men with comparable experience working the same job ever since the Equal Pay Act of 1963. You wouldn't know that from the way Democrats are pushing a bill...
You lost your doctor for this miserable result
The Obama administration has been crowing about how many people signed up for coverage on the Obamacare exchanges, but the real question is how many of those people were uninsured before. The reason...
When a president acts illegally, we must take legal action
It angered me when President Obama in 2009 said doctors were so greedy, they might perform unnecessary surgery on a child (yes, the President of the United States actually said this) just to collect...
Those dangerous ideas like liberty
It is fashionable in Democrat circles to be enraged about the Koch brothers. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid has been claiming that Charles and David Koch, two men who have grown wealthy by making...
Newspapers are free — why not you?
The Wall Street Journal had it about right in praising last week's Supreme Court decision that government cannot tell any free American how many candidates she or he may support with donations:"One...
The desperate Democrats trying to patch the Obamacare leaks
President Obama boasts that his "Affordable" Care Act is a success because 7.1 million people registered on his government-run exchanges. This falls miserably short of expectations set only two...
7.1 million vs. the high hopes of yesterday
President Obama says that 7.1 million people have signed up for coverage on government health insurance exchanges under Obamacare. It was so exciting to the White House that his staff invented a new...
If your boss says the Cobalt’s a great car, who are you to disagree?
What's wrong with the government bailing out General Motors? David Harsanyi in The Federalist recounts just how hard the federal government came down on a competitor, Toyota, when it was briefly...
All this chaos for so few beneficiaries
The Obama administration is boasting, with an exclamation point, that six million people have signed up for health insurance on the federal Obamacare exchange. This is less of a milestone than the...
Potatoes and pushy government
Wisconsin potato farmers are baffled, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports, that the federal government has singled out their crop as the one unacceptable fresh vegetable for low-income recipients...
Obamacare puts off deadline, as if that will help
The Obama administration had said repeatedly that the deadline for signing up for Obamacare this year was March 31. Would that be delayed because the rollout was a disaster? "No, sir," HHS Secretary...
Four years of mess and broken promises
Sunday was the fourth anniversary of the ridiculously misnamed Affordable Care Act. You didn't see any parades? President Obama, Harry Reid and Nancy Pelosi didn't hold a Washington event to...
One more way the economics of Obamacare aren’t working
Obamacare's massive subsidies still aren't enough to help some patients, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reports:"Many of the health plans sold on the federal marketplace under the Affordable Care...