The Wall Street Journal points out that when it comes to putting a roadblock in the way of Vladimir Putin's aggression, America's most ready course is to export what we produce - namely, natural...
The ongoing hardship that is Obamacare
About 940,000 people signed up for insurance under the ridiculously misnamed Affordable Care Act in February, the government has announced. That isn't the big momentum the administration needs for...
Questions about the Keystone XL pipeline
I enjoyed a chance to question witnesses about the Keystone XL pipeline at the Senate Foreign Relations Committee on Thursday. The witnesses were James Hansen of Columbia University Earth Institute...
Heritage Foundation supports my lawsuit
The Heritage Foundation on Friday pointed out that Obamacare contains a number of provisions that may have been rejected, had Democrats read the bill before passing it.One particular part of the law...
Numbers are so hard
Actually, numbers aren't that hard to understand. But sometimes they're hard to admit to.The Senate Budget Committee heard from the director of the Office of Management and Budget, Sylvia Burwell -...
The president’s great achievement turns out to be poison
The Obama administration decreed on Wednesday that health insurance plans that don't meet the costly standards of Obamacare can still be sold through October 2016.It's an extension of the...
A good Democrat idea like cutting taxes
It was 50 years ago, Larry Kudlow and Brian Domitrovic remind us in the Wall Street Journal, that the president signed one of the 20th century's three great across-the-board tax cuts. That president...
Another year older and deeper in debt. Thanks, big government.
The Wall Street Journal writes about the latest trend of a lender offering vulnerable borrowers plenty of rope to hang themselves:"Some Americans caught in the weak job market are lining up for...
How the IRS has been made a more dangerous weapon
More than 140,000 Americans commented on the IRS' proposed rules that would allow it to go on targeting political groups based on their views. I was one of them. If my comments sound stern, it is...
Wise move by the FCC
The Federal Communications Commission is pulling the plug on its plans to probe journalists' news judgment, the agency announced Friday, according to Politico:"The study was to start this spring...
De-escalate the IRS war on the First Amendment now
The IRS, which did not seem to find any lessons in its political targeting scandal last spring, is proposing new regulations to restrict political speech. I submitted comments, as did well over...
A Greenpeace founder says panic is not justified
It's worth reading what Patrick Moore has to say about man-made global warming. He has a doctorate in ecology. He's also one of the founders of Greenpeace.And he has the courage not to run with the...
Harry Reid should take it back
Today, the Senate Democrats' leader, Harry Reid, stood on the floor of the Senate and called thousands of Wisconsinites liars.He was talking about Obamacare. These are his exact words: "There's...
He imagined the Affordable Care Act was about affordable care
The realities of political marketing sink in on young people in Colorado, reports the Denver Post. They're finding that their options under the "Affordable Care Act" aren't affordable."Matt Leising...
Milwaukee Journal Sentinel: Reform federal program to connect classrooms
Originally printed in Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, February 21st, 2014 Based on how much we spend, every child in America should be getting a world-class education, which would include...
If Obamacare is so great, why not use honest math?
What is it about President Obama, that he just cannot bring himself to use honest numbers when boasting about the Orwellian-named Affordable Care Act?Even the left-leaning press feels compelled to...
Obamacare took away his mother’s cancer medicine
A son lays out the grim truth about his mother's cancer medicine in the Obamacare era in Monday morning's Wall Street Journal (hat tip to Right Wisconsin). Stephen Blackwood writes that his mother...
Newspaper agrees: No special deals for Congress
The Detroit News editorial board gets it on Obamacare: Congress was wrong to get a special deal from the Obama administration:"In crafting the bill, Congress specifically approved a...
If stricter guns laws were a magic wand, Chicago would be safe
While everyone in Wisconsin is right to be concerned about violent crime, I find that some people believe there's a magic-wand solution. They feel that if only we passed yet one more law, we could...
Demoralizing people as they struggle is not a good thing
It's amazing to watch as President Obama and his Democrat allies spin the disastrous analysis by the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office that their health care "reform" will discourage work....