Morning Bell: Decision Time on Immigration
Today is a pivotal day in the immigration debate: House Republicans are meeting to hash out their path. Pressure is coming from all sides. The… Read More
House Members Step Up to Prevent U.S. Unilateral Nuclear Reductions
Representatives Mike Turner (R–OH), Mike Rogers (R–AL), Trent Franks (R–AZ), and Jim Bridenstine (R–OK) offered an amendment to the House fiscal year 2014 energy and… Read More
Missile Defense: Independent Working Group Holds Valuable Seminar
In recent days, the House of Representatives and the Senate Armed Services Committee adopted different versions of the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year… Read More
LawNews
Public Opinion and the Supreme Court
A recent Rasmussen poll shows that public approval of the Supreme Court of the United States is at an all-time low. Only 28 percent of… Read More
Energy Budget Cuts Are Attack on Subsidies, Not Science
House Members who are proposing cuts to the Department of Energy (DOE) budget are facing bogus criticism that the cuts are an attack on science…. Read More
Eliminate Advanced Manufacturing and Alternative Fuel Programs
There are sound market ideas that address issues of high energy prices. Throwing money at corporations is not one of them. The House of Representatives… Read More
Things That Aren’t Inevitable: The Farm Bill
Don’t you love it when the conventional wisdom gets turned on its head? What was supposed to happen in Washington a couple of weeks ago—passing… Read More
Russia Compliance Problem: How Obama’s Policy Is Failing
In a recent article, Mark Schneider of the National Institute for Public Policy points out that Russia’s compliance issues with arms control treaties have worsened… Read More
LawNews
Is the Supreme Court “Pro-Business”?
Erwin Chemerinsky, dean of the law school at the University of California, Irvine, has penned an op-ed for The New York Times repeating the old… Read More
Include Taiwan in the Trans-Pacific Partnership
“We do hope to [get] into TPP [Trans-Pacific Partnership] as early as possible,” said Mignonne Man-Jung Chan, former senior adviser to the President on Taiwan,… Read More
7 Ugly Truths About the House Farm Bill
The recently defeated House farm bill was fundamentally flawed. The House can now fix these flaws by going back to the drawing board and developing… Read More
Morning Bell: Obamacare’s Dirty Dozen Implementation Failures
Last week, the Obama Administration attempted to spin its announcement of a one-year delay in Obamacare’s employer mandate as an effort to implement the law… Read More
Former Virginia Governor Jim Gilmore: Internet Sales Tax Hurts Small Businesses
The misnamed Marketplace Fairness Act (MFA), commonly called the Internet sales tax, recently passed the Senate and awaits action in the House. If it becomes… Read More
The Obamacare Big City Bailout
Bloomberg reports this week on the latest Obamacare trend sweeping across the country: Cities and states may soon attempt to unload unsustainable health costs on… Read More
Iran in Latin America: State Department Ignores Allies
The State Department recently released a report to Congress assessing the threat posed by Iran in the Western Hemisphere. Regrettably, it seems that the State… Read More
Diverted from the Straight and Narrow Path for Diverting Sewage
After decades of striving to obey the law and teaching his children to do the same, Lawrence Lewis turned to crime. His offense? Diverting sewage… Read More
$150,000 in the Bank and Drawing Income from Social Security’s SSI
An individual with $150,000 in the bank received Supplemental Security Income (SSI), a program intended for blind, disabled, or elderly individuals with limited financial resources,… Read More
Drug Trafficking: Cartels Take to the Caribbean
Drug cartels have increasingly trafficked through the Caribbean to evade law enforcement, but the U.S. Coast Guard is struggling to keep up. The U.S. has… Read More
EducationNews
Protecting Educational Freedom This Independence Day: Cracks in the Common Core
Just in time for Independence Day, the foundations of the Common Core initiative are showing some cracks. Common Core is an effort to establish national… Read More
Pelosi: July 4 Is Health Independence Day
As Americans celebrate a long holiday weekend, we should take at least a moment to ponder the idea, advanced recently by House Minority Leader Nancy… Read More
Young Africans Need Economic Freedom, Not Lectures About Climate Change
Speaking to students during his recent trip to Africa, President Obama said that “if everybody is raising living standards to the point where everybody has… Read More
Jason Everman: Smells Like American Spirit
Fans of “Grunge” rock know the names of bands like Nirvana and Soundgarden and people like Kurt Cobain and Chris Cornell all too well. Chances… Read More
Good News: Reporters Link Bigger Trade Deficit to Stronger Economy
The government just announced that the trade deficit for May increased by $400 million. Usually, the media report announcements of bigger trade deficits as bad… Read More
The Massive Costs of the Latest Obamacare Waiver
Policymakers are still recovering from yesterday’s shocking admission by the Administration that it can’t implement Obamacare’s employer mandate without destroying jobs. The announced one-year delay… Read More
A Key Voice on Immigration Reform Says No to Amnesty-First Approach
The Gang of Eight’s amnesty bill passed the Senate by a 68-32 vote, but House Republicans have already declared the nearly 1,200-page bill dead upon… Read More
Health CareNews
Fortnight for Freedom: Religious Liberty and the Obamacare Mandate
A coalition of religious leaders from a broad spectrum of faith backgrounds gathered in Washington this week to release a letter denouncing an Obamacare health… Read More
Morning Bell: So Which Part of Obamacare Works, Then?
Obamacare is so helpful, so ready for action, so vital to the nation’s health, that… the Obama Administration is delaying another major part of it…. Read More
It’s Official: Administration Admits Obamacare Is a Job-Killer
Bloomberg News reported this evening that the Obama Administration is set to announce a one-year delay in enforcement of Obamacare’s employer mandate, a move the… Read More
Egypt Protests: One Reason for the Unrest
Although millions have marched again in the streets of Cairo in recent days, it is still uncertain whether the revived demonstrations will deliver much-needed economic… Read More
Obamacare, Health Costs, and Jobs
Yesterday, the Brookings Institution released updated statistics on the role of health care jobs in the broader economy. The study’s findings provide interesting grist for… Read More
