Author: Betsy McCaughey

If you have a retirement fund or pension, or you’re a taxpayer, get ready to have your pockets picked. The Obama administration wants Congress to enact a bankruptcy plan for Puerto Rico, forcing holders of Puerto Rican debt (including New York City pension funds) to settle for less than they’re owed. Puerto Rico is over […]

Consumer Reports is sounding the alarm about a vicious infection raging through hospitals, even prestigious academic medical centers such as Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City and Ohio’s Cleveland Clinic. Clostridium difficile, or C. diff for short, sickens half a million people each year, and 29,000 of them […]

President Obama is heading to Cuba in two weeks, eager to unveil more travel and trade concessions to the country’s Communist regime. But is he too eager to befriend Fidel and Raul Castro, no matter the price? Members of Congress fear the president will cave to Cuba’s demand to hand over the U.S. Naval Base […]

Hillary Clinton is sweeping the Democratic primaries across the South by capturing nearly all the black votes — a staggering 86 percent in South Carolina. She’s doing it with poisonous lies designed to stoke racial resentment. Clinton routinely tells blacks they are the victims of “systemic racism” and scolds whites for not demonstrating more “humility.” […]

The Obama administration will tell any lie and break any law to prevent the president’s signature health program from collapsing. Insurance companies, such as UnitedHealthcare and Aetna, are losing billions trying to sell Obamacare plans, and the risk is they’ll drop out at the end of 2016. No insurance companies means no Obamacare. In 2014, […]

Democrats are giddy over the prospect of President Obama replacing conservative Justice Antonin Scalia with a liberal. But Republicans are equally adamant about blocking Obama’s lame-duck appointment. “This vacancy should not be filled until we have a new president,” says Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell. It’s rare that a president makes a Supreme Court appointment […]

The New Hampshire primary has put the spotlight on Bernie Sanders. But not all his votes were honestly won. Sanders falsely claims he’s been leading the fight to save vets from the corruption and deadly medical care delays at the VA — a message aimed at the Granite State’s large vet population. The truth is, […]

If you’re a white male looking for a job, it just got harder. Claiming women aren’t getting paid enough, President Obama wants to make it easier to accuse employers of gender discrimination and hit them with class-action lawsuits. A new regulation proposed on Friday will require all employers with 100 or more workers to report […]

If you’re pregnant or planning to be, rethink your vacation plans. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention is warning against travel to Puerto Rico, the U.S. Virgin Islands and 22 countries in Latin America where mosquitoes are carrying the Zika virus and infecting people they bite. The biggest danger is to pregnant women, whose […]

Hillary Clinton is attacking rival Bernie Sanders, calling his plan to replace Obamacare with socialist single payer healthcare a “risky deal” and unaffordable. She’s telling Democrats the survival of the Affordable Care Act depends on her winning the presidency. “The stakes couldn’t be higher,” she warned Iowa voters. Sunday night at the primary debate she […]

Bush V. Gore decided a single election. But the case heard by the Supreme Court on Monday could impact elections for many years. The Justices’ remarks during arguments in Friedrichs v. California Teachers Association point to a major setback looming for public unions. The Court will likely rule that teachers and other unionized public workers […]

Across the United States, temperatures are plunging, making it deadly for the homeless who refuse to go into shelters. Each year, hundreds of these vagrants die from exposure on the streets. Yet blinded by progressive ideology, so-called “advocates” for the homeless — including the Obama administration — are defending a “right” to stay on the […]

For American public education, 2015 was a dismal year, at least by the numbers. But don’t blame the kids. Parents are missing in action. Except most Asian-American parents. They tend to oversee their children’s homework, hold them accountable for grades, and demand hard work as the ticket to a better life. And it pays off. […]

Last week, Hillary Clinton chose Minneapolis — with its growing enclave of fundamentalist Muslim refugees — to announce her plan to combat terrorism. That’s like choosing Baskin-Robbins to announce your weight loss plans. Clinton offered little more than platitudes like “we have to do more to address the challenge of radicalization.” MEANWHILE, that challenge was […]

Don’t be fooled by last week’s headlines about more money and greater accountability at the VA. It’s the usual malarkey coming out of Washington DC. The prognosis for vets who need healthcare remains poor, with vets likely to get the run around and face delays again in 2016. On Friday, congress passed an omnibus spending […]

On Dec. 9, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a constitutional challenge to racial preferences in college admissions. These preferences obviously hurt whites and Asians turned down to make room for less qualified minorities. Ironically the preferences also harm many Hispanics and African-Americans — the very students that are supposed to be helped. No wonder […]

The newborn boy abandoned in a nativity display at a New York City church last week lucked out. His mother bought towels at a 99 Cents Only Store to keep him warm, and then left him in the manger to be found. But many abandoned babies aren’t so lucky. Every year, hundreds are dumped in […]

If you’re at risk of prostate cancer — in other words, if you’re male — the best place to be is the United States, where survival rates are highest in the world. But not for long, if the Obama administration gets its way by curtailing a test that flags prostate cancer before it spreads. The […]

At least one of the bombers in the Paris massacre last weekend allegedly sneaked into France posing as a Syrian refugee. ISIS is infiltrating refugee camps to penetrate Europe and the United States. But on Monday, Obama dismissed the danger, doubling down on his plans to settle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees here. The White […]

What’s the best place to get a no-show job? The federal government. Uncle Sam pays corrupt or incompetent employees not to come to work, because it’s easier than firing them, never mind the cost to taxpayers. Congress is trying to get to the bottom of this outrageous waste. So far, the Obama administration is stonewalling. […]

On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton begins with her own family’s past — her factory-working grandfather and her father’s rise to become a small business owner. In New Hampshire last week, she vowed to rebuild the “ladders of opportunity” which she claims have disappeared. It’s rousing political rhetoric. Problem is, though, it’s not true. Contrary […]

Hillary Rodham Clinton says the furor over sick vets waiting for health-care is overblown and “not as widespread as it has been made out to be.” Last Friday, Clinton accused Republicans of concocting complaints against the Veterans Affairs Department as part of an ideological war against big government. Sorry, Clinton. That’s wrong. 138 nonpartisan investigations […]

Obamacare is heading toward a death spiral. The Obama administration is having trouble selling insurance plans to healthy people. That’s a big problem: When the young and healthy don’t enroll, premiums have to be hiked to cover the costs of older sicker people, discouraging even more young people from signing up. Last Thursday, the administration […]

After a preliminary hearing, Army officials are recommending Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl get off without jail time or a punitive discharge for walking off his Afghanistan military base in 2009. He could even get back pay and lifetime disability payments. The recommendation leaked out Sunday, infuriating some of Bergdahl’s former platoon-mates. Instead of examining Bergdahl’s crimes, […]

Saturday, the National Education Association, the nation’s largest public employees union, endorsed Hillary Clinton for president. That’s on the heels of another giant, the American Federation of Teachers. Soon these unions could have a lot less money to tilt elections for Democrats. The United States Supreme Court, which opened its term Monday, is poised to […]

Last week brought more disturbing revelations about Hillary Clinton’s emails. A majority of Americans think she’s lying about what she did as secretary of state and what she’s done since to cover up, according to a new Fox News poll. As the scandal hounds her, she’s trying to lose the scent by announcing a plan […]

President Obama is weakening our military by shedding troops, weapons, and ships. But even these cuts are not as dangerous as his misguided crusade for a gender blind military. “Valor has no gender,” Obama naively announced. True, but strength, speed and sharpshooting accuracy are gender specific. A new 9 month, $36 million study conducted by […]

Robert McDonald, head of Veterans Affairs, claims he’s making “great progress” delivering health care to vets and turning around the agency’s mismanagement and corruption. Don’t believe him. Right now, more than 35,000 combat vets who are automatically eligible for VA care are stuck on hold because the VA’s enrollment process is broken. It’s been going […]

Last Tuesday, President Barack Obama hiked to Exit Glacier in Alaska with photographers in tow, to send the world a message. The glacier is melting. Obama blames it on the increasing use of fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, which he wants to restrict not only in the U.S. but also worldwide. […]