Year: 2014

Question: If Obamacare officials cannot prevent accused embezzlers from infiltrating their offices, how can they protect enrollees from grifters, con artists and thieves in the federal health insurance exchange system? Here in my home state, a director of Connect for Health Colorado — the state-sponsored Obamacare health insurance exchange — was just put on administrative […]

On Saturday, some 1,500 students from all over the world gathered to discuss freedom at the Students for Liberty Conference in Washington, D.C. Economist Donald Boudreaux showed the students a department store catalog from 1958 to underscore how the free market, while contributing to income inequality, also dramatically improved the lives of the poor: “The […]

Evil acts are given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions, such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution, caring for the less fortunate, and the will of the majority. Let’s have a thought experiment to consider just how much Americans sanction evil. Imagine there are several elderly widows in your neighborhood. They have […]

The Federal Communications Commission is about to launch a direct assault on the freedom of media to cover news as it chooses. The program, called the Multi-Market Study of Critical Information Needs involves requesting information from all radio and television stations — and newspapers — about how they cover news, who decides what gets covered, […]

SOCHI, Russia — There are two things I probably forgot to mention about my time here at the Winter Olympics in Russia. But now that I’m wrapping up, I’ll tell you. One is that there are palm trees everywhere, the fronds wafting in the warm breezes off the Black Sea. Palm trees just say “Winter […]

PARIS — Here we go again. Yet another country full of voters who foolishly bought into the socialist pipe dream of endless nanny-state freebies is noticing the check coming due. Facing hyperinflation and shortages of necessities like toilet paper, Venezuelans are spilling into the streets, pleading for Captain America to rescue them from their own […]

President Barack Obama is using the IRS to silence employers unhappy about Obamacare. That’s the hidden purpose behind the employer mandate delay announced on Feb. 10. The administration released 227 pages of mind-numbing regulations ridiculously billed as making “the compliance process simpler and easier” for employers. Hidden in the gobbledygook (on pages 125-126) is a […]

During “Black History Month” most people focus on black America’s “heroes.” : Stories are shared about the past, or what some call the “black experience” in America. Unfortunately, Black History Month seems to have become a mechanical celebration of a few people and a few things that are deemed appropriate by the media and black establishment. […]

Of all the time-honored failings for which we criticize sitting presidents — by “we” I mean pundits, academics and other members of the chattering phylum — two charges stand out: imperialism and shrinkage. Usually it’s one or the other. When the president is unpopular or when he’s lost control of his agenda or when he […]

Freshman Senator Ted Cruz says many things that need to be said and says them well. Moreover, some of these things are what many, if not most, Americans believe wholeheartedly. Yet we need to remember that the same was true of another freshman Senator, just a relatively few years ago, who parlayed his ability to […]