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Workers at a Volkswagen plant in Chattanooga, Tenn., voted over the weekend not to unionize with the United Auto Workers. The Wall Street Journal says it's "the best news so far this year for the...

President Obama wants to give a little more life to his jury-rigged effort to let people keep health care plans they liked. The Associated Press reports that the administration "is considering an...

The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office predicts that the ridiculously misnamed "Affordable" Care Act will reduce work. As the agency itself said of Obamacare:"By providing subsidies that...

Originally published in The Hill, February 2nd, 2014Today, Americans access broadband Internet almost everywhere. We are using it to talk, view, tweet, post and pin at home, at work, in our cars and...

President Obama now says he had no idea that Obamacare's rollout was going to be such a disaster:"On the rocky launch of the health care exchange system, Obama said he anticipated problems...

President Obama wants to raise the minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. "Give America a raise," he demanded of employers in his State of the Union speech, telling them, "Americans will support you" as...

Back in October, when Obamacare was a freshly launched disaster, I said that the website problems were only the beginning. The new Marquette University Law School poll suggests that Wisconsinites...

I'll listen respectfully when President Obama gives his State of the Union speech. The office he holds deserves that, and perhaps he'll say something new. Perhaps he'll start respecting the...

Obamacare's backers keep on claiming that it's not a government takeover because private insurers are involved. But it's not clear how at set-up will fare. According to The Hill (hat tip to Right...

As many as six out of seven adults under age 35 would be better off skipping out of Obamacare's health insurance mandate, according to research from the American Action Forum, a non-partisan think...

Some things about Obamacare's website seem to move quickly - such as how long it takes to access someone else's information. Report in Gizmodo:"David Kennedy, a white hat hacker and TrustedSec CEO,...

Target, the discount store, is ending health coverage for its part-time workforce, citing the Orwellian-named "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act", or Obamacare. The company will offer...

The Wall Street Journal points out the problem with the "Affordable" Care Act that's far worse than malfunctioning websites: The plan's economics are totally dysfunctional."For the first time HHS...

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel's "PolitiFact" operation claimed the other day that I made misleading statements about fraud in government benefits programs, spending 1,200 words parsing an...

By: Ron Johnson The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) is neither protecting patients nor making health care more affordable. It is doing real harm to real people and...

College enrollment is down, report Richard Vedder and Christopher Denhart in the Wall Street Journal, and it shouldn't be a surprise. The pay premium that bachelor's degree holders earn over those...

The Los Angeles Times reports that people who bought insurance on the "Affordable" Care Act's exchanges are now running into trouble with insurers handling the policies. Often, insurers can't...

About four million people have been added to Medicaid, the government-run single-payer health plan for the poor, since Obamacare rolled out in October. Putting people on Medicaid was a big part of...

Innovation is now the norm in industries, writes Gordon Crovitz in the Wall Street Journal - innovation so fast that it disrupts industries. He mentions how the free maps app on his phone has made...