Year: 2013

This week economists, investors and politicians were treated to some of the “best” home price data since the frothy days of 2006 when home loans were given out like cotton candy and condo flipping was a national pastime. The Case-Shiller 20 City Composite Home price index was up a startling 10.9% for the 12 month […]

When it rains, it pours. Spare me the well-timed media/left-wing celebration over the creation of Battleground Texas. At its core, the organization was created to employ out-of-state Obama political operatives, in a slow campaign period, by selling to wealthy donors the dream of winning Texas and upending the electoral map. Clever construct. But history is […]

The school year may be over for most American students, but parents must remain as vigilant as ever when it comes to protecting their children’s privacy. Look no further than the shocking, invasive conduct of the Polk County, Fla., educational district last week. It’s a surveillance-state sign of the times. Two days before their Memorial […]

“Could people like Bob Dole, even Ronald Reagan — could you make it in today’s Republican Party?” Chris Wallace of “Fox News Sunday” asked former Senate Majority Leader and 1996 GOP presidential nominee Bob Dole. “I doubt it,” Dole replied. “Reagan wouldn’t have made it. Certainly, Nixon couldn’t have made it, because he had ideas […]

Well, let’s see. Obama promised to get the economy moving, greatly improve our health care system and reduce its costs, give us the most transparent government, and usher in a new era of bipartisanship and racial harmony. Some 4 1/2 years into Obama’s presidency, his economy is still as lethargic as a basset hound, and […]

The revelation that acting IRS Commissioner Douglas Shulman visited the White House at least 157 times during the period in which conservative groups were being targeted with tax audits gives us the first real indication of the extent to which this scandal reaches into the White House. The incredible frequency of the visits — essentially […]

Most stories about the president’s health care law these days are about the challenges of implementation and the complexity of setting up exchanges. But that’s not where the action is. What’s more important is that insurance companies, benefits consultants and others are actually reading the 2,000-page law to see what it says. Perhaps the biggest […]