Year: 2013

U.S. Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius is allergic to the truth. She is the ruthless enforcer of Obamacare’s Jenga tower of lies upon lies upon lies. Now that this fatally flawed government edifice is collapsing, you can expect Sebelius to do what she has done her entire career: blame, bully and pile […]

I’ve always avoided reporting on the Federal Reserve. I know it’s more important than much of the stuff I cover, but it’s so boring. How can I succeed on TV reporting on the Fed? Fed chairs even work at being dull. Alan Greenspan said he tried to be obscure because he didn’t want to spook […]

According to a recent Fox News poll, 73 percent of Americans are dissatisfied with the direction of the country, up 20 points from 2012. Americans sense that there’s a lot going wrong in our nation, but most don’t have a clue about the true nature of our problem. If they had a clue, most would […]

The wiretapping of the personal cell phones of 35 foreign leaders, including our closest allies, is clearly President Obama’s scandal. But is it also Hillary Clinton’s? Obama claims he knew nothing about the unprecedented spying, and the Wall Street Journal reported that he shut it down when he found out last summer. The question for […]

Florida Blue cancelled policies for 300,000 Floridians. Kaiser Permanente dropped 160,000 individual plan holders in California, and Blue Cross Blue Shield of North Carolina mailed out 160,000 cancellation notices. It’s happening nearly everywhere. People were promised they could keep their health insurance plan. That was a lie. They were duped and dropped. The liar is […]

PARIS — So-called “transparency advocates” who believe that splaying out all the intelligence activities of America and its allies will result in increased oversight, regulation and accountability have failed to learn the recent lesson of warfare: Whining about what you can’t handle just leads to more secrecy. That’s how we ended up with drones. When […]

On Monday evening, NBC News reported that President Obama wasn’t just wrong, he was willfully lying when he said that if Americans liked their insurance plans, they could keep them under Obamacare. “(T)he administration knew that more than 40 to 67 percent of those in the individual market would not be able to keep their […]

“All we’ve been hearing the last three years is if you like your policy you can keep it. … I’m infuriated because I was lied to,” one woman told the Los Angeles Times, as part of a story on how some middle-class Californians have been stunned to learn the real costs of Obamacare. And that […]

The public’s opinion of politicians of both parties seems to have reached a new low. But no matter how much the voters detest Congress — or how justifiably — that does not mean that there will be radical changes at the next election. For one thing, “Congress” is not on the ballot. Only individual members […]

A recent Bankrate.com survey shows that only one in 10 Americans (11% of the uninsured and nine percent of the overall population) say their health insurance situation has improved over the past year. Despite the fact that the health insurance exchanges opened about a month ago and hundreds of millions of dollars are being spent […]

Polls indicate that the public is so disgusted with Washington politicians of both parties that a surprisingly large proportion of the people would like to get rid of the whole lot of them. It is certainly understandable that the voters would like to “throw the rascals out.” But there is no point in throwing the […]

The FBI reports on its website that “not only is human sex trafficking slavery but it is big business. It is the fastest-growing business of organized crime and the third-largest criminal enterprise in the world.” I noted in Part 1 of my series on human trafficking that ABC News reported in July on a National […]

Two snares stand in the way of conservatives’ fervent desire to dismantle Obamacare: 1) a possible perception that its problems are limited to the technical issues with the rollout and 2) the GOP’s potentially suicidal impulse to bail Obama out. Though the problems with the rollout are far more than website “glitches,” they can and […]

When opinion shifts in modern America, the change can be like a flash flood. Three years ago, 54 percent of California voters rejected Proposition 19, which would have legalized the recreational use of marijuana. Last year, Colorado and Washington voters approved measures to legalize the recreational use of marijuana. Last week, Gallup released a poll […]