On Monday morning, President Barack Obama stepped into the role of pitchman as he tried to convince a skeptical public that the Affordable Care Act is a success and that Americans should keep trying to access the program despite the
The Wall Street Journal‘s lead editorial Monday presents a good summary of what is wrong with the government’s case against J.P. Morgan: it seeks to punish a company for helping the government; it targets one of the only financial firms
Americans for Tax Reform President Grover Norquist has emerged as the Republican establishment’s leading crusader and mouthpiece against Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX), repeatedly denigrating Cruz for fighting against Obamacare with a tactic that Norquist alleges hurt Republicans. Obamacare is wreaking
Business groups that want Republicans to compromise more with Democrats and Washington’s permanent political class on comprehensive immigration reform may declare war on Tea Party candidates by putting money behind moderate and centrist candidates in Republican primaries. According to the Wall
Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) claimed on Friday that the fight to defund Obamacare had been a plus for the GOP, in part because it prevented Republicans from having to give in on the sequester. That fight is not yet over,
On Thursday, Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) blocked President Barack Obama’s nominee to head the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) over whether he supports the Disclose Act. According to the Wall Street Journal, Cruz “placed a hold on the nomination of former
President Barack Obama and the media have been hoping for weeks that the stock market would crash to teach those extremist Tea Party Republicans a lesson about imposing fiscal discipline on the nation. Here was NBC’s Chuck Todd yesterday: Tomorrow,
The House has yet to vote on Republican leaders’ proposed bill for ending the government shutdown and the debt ceiling fight. The GOP, having entered aiming to defund Obamacare and reach some agreement on major budget changes, now merely hopes
Avik Roy notices something significant in a report by the Wall Street Journal. One of the reasons the federal exchange doesn’t work is because HHS was worried about people’s reactions to the pricing. One of the complaints that kept popping
Who are the “hostage-takers” now? Convinced by opinion polls that the media will let them get away with it, Democrats are now refusing to pass a “clean” continuing resolution to end the government shutdown, as well as a straightforward debt ceiling
The great cash cow that can make up as much as half the revenue various cable channels rake in is the racket known as bundled cable, where you and I pay for dozens of channels we never watch and even
Tea Party Patriots national coordinator Jenny Beth Martin blasted House Budget Committee chairman Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) on Friday for his role in negotiating some kind of a “grand bargain” on the debt ceiling and Continuing Resolution (CR), saying he
The results of the NBC/WSJ poll have lifted the mainstream media’s spirits this morning. Republicans are “losing,” Mara Liasson of National Public Radio exulted, suggesting that poor poll results were the reason that House Speaker John Boehner offered President Barack
I find the suggestion that Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) does not truly oppose Obamacare rather amusing. The basis of the charge is that he does not mention the word “Obamacare” in his op-ed today in the Wall Street Journal about
Israel’s Minister of Intelligence, Yuval Steinitz, called a new proposal for a deal on Iran’s nuclear program a “joke,” according to the Jerusalem Post on Wednesday. The terms of the deal, reported by the Wall Street Journal on Tuesday evening, include
On Monday, former vice presidential candidate Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, suggesting that Republicans drop all Obamacare demands in their push for a deal on the debt ceiling and a continuing resolution to
Former UN Ambassador John Bolton told Breitbart News late Tuesday evening that the new nuclear proposal being offered by the Iranian regime is “complete bullsh–” and “pure propaganda” to buy time. Under the proposal, according to the Wall Street Journal,
Saturday Reuters reported that IT experts it contacted saw serious problems in the design of the exchange website launched last week by HHS: One possible cause of the problems is that hitting “apply” on HealthCare.gov causes 92 separate files, plug-ins
The Iranian government claimed Sunday that it had arrested four individuals accused of trying to sabotage the country’s nuclear sites. While the exact sites allegedly targeted were not named, if such sabotage is indeed going on, it likely involves the
Hillary Clinton is now acting as though she is a pragmatic moderate who desires nothing more than reconciliation with the GOP. Speaking at Hamilton College in upstate New York on Friday, she said the government shutdown is the result of
A comment made by an Obama administration official in Friday’s Wall Street Journal is turning some heads. The unnamed official made the cold-eyed calculation that it didn’t matter how much pain the nation was feeling due to the government shut
A new analysis by University of Chicago professor of economics Casey Mulligan finds that when the Obamacare employer penalty goes into full effect in 2015, the government will confiscate 10% more in taxes from full-time median income workers than it
How bad is Obamacare? In July, President Obama himself unilaterally rewrote the law. Why? Because businesses started cutting hours, slashing benefits and reducing staff to avoid paying a hefty $3,000 per-employee penalty/fine/tax–whatever you want to call it–mandated by Obamacare. And
The Wall Street Journal ran a very interesting analysis Wednesday about new pressures facing foreign companies in China: old Maoist tactics. Those amount to using threats of investigation to force concessions–such as price cuts–as well as public confessions of wrongdoing, not
The nation once again owes the heroes of World War II a debt of gratitude. The veterans who stormed the barricades that the federal government tried to erect around the WWII memorial on the Mall in Washington, D.C. reminded us that
The failure of the Obamacare exchanges–two-thirds of which, according to CNN, are not working after launch–is more than just a fulfillment of conservative skepticism of government in general. It also highlights a key feature of Barack Obama’s personality: his absolute
Two top Republicans in the Senate indicated on Tuesday that the partial government shutdown may last for weeks, forcing Congress to deal with passing a short-term resolution to fund the government while also negotiating an increase in the debt ceiling.
After being snubbed by Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani at the UN last week, President Barack Obama clawed back some respect–in the eyes of the American media, if not the world–with a 15-minute telephone call. It was the first time presidents
Obama Administration officials led by Attorney General Eric Holder will travel to Detroit on Friday to meet with officials to discuss President Barack Obama’s plans to give a package of at least $320 million to the bankrupt Motor City, which
National Public Radio’s Scott Horsley continued his cheerleading for President Barack Obama with a story Wednesday about the president’s latest attempt to promote Obamacare to a highly skeptical public. Horsley allowed Obama’s claims about the cost of Obamacare premiums to
Just last week, Nancy Pelosi was invoking her Catholic faith to attack Republicans on food stamp reform. ” On the floor of the House the Republicans are trying to cut $40 billion, that’s 50 percent of the nutrition program –
President Barack Obama is mulling a meeting Tuesday at the United Nations with Iranian leader Hassan Rouhani. They will also both be present at a private luncheon held for heads of state by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, and Secretary of
First Lady Michelle Obama welcomed a stylish entourage to the White House last week, a group which included Project Runway host Tim Gunn. A group of unusually well-dressed visitors lined up at the southeast gate of the White House Friday, when
The New York Times observed Sunday the Obama administration’s assertion that health insurance will cost less under Obamacare has a “catch”: insurers will severely limit the choices of physicians and hospitals available to American consumers who use the new exchanges.
I enjoy and admire Michael Medved, so it is with some reluctance that I attack his op-ed in today’s Wall Street Journal, which is both cringing and cringeworthy, and represents much that is wrong with the mentality of today’s GOP
As he did in 2011, President Barack Obama is accusing Republicans of “holding the whole country hostage.” This time, the issue is not just the debt ceiling, which comes due in mid-October, but the federal budget, which expires on Sep.
In an ironic twist, the White House is now joining health systems experts in warning that Americans who enroll in the ObamaCare insurance exchanges should expect that their personal, financial, and health information will be at risk and they could
That isn’t the explicit message of a new rule from the Labor Department, but it is its intended effect. On Tuesday, the Labor Department announced it was expanding federal minimum wage and overtime regulations to cover 2 million home health
With the House expected to vote this week on a Republican food stamp reform bill designed to reduce fraud and encourage self-sufficiency, Democrats have launched a full-scale effort to oppose the measure. “These cuts to SNAP [Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program]
The Federal Reserve announced on Wednesday it will continue its unprecedented $85 billion a month bond-buying strategy despite earlier indications it would begin tapering its controversial quantitative easing policies. The announcement comes as the Fed has downgraded its outlook for the
