Category: Column

Not every bad thing that happens to us is bad, long term. I’ve learned it well; some of life’s biggest blessings arrive unexpectedly, wrapped in the most unsightly dressings. It’s as if the alchemy happens in the waiting. And so it may be for the GOP, as they now get to witness certain Democrats, who […]

Where are Americans moving, and why? Timothy Noah, writing in the Washington Monthly, professes to be puzzled. He points out that people have been moving out of states with high per capita incomes — Connecticut, New York, Massachusetts, Maryland — to states with lower income levels. “Why are Americans by and large moving away from […]

It seems every major scandal, abuse of power, and spectacular failure in President Barack Obama’s administration happens, we’re told, without the president’s knowledge. When Lois Lerner first confessed to improperly targeting tea party groups via a planted question at a conference, she blamed it on “rogue agents” in Cincinnati. We later found out that Lerner […]

You can’t keep your insurance if you like it under Obamacare, because you’re too ignorant to understand what’s good for you. That’s the argument we’ve been hearing from a lot of folks on the left — an argument that pivots from “common good” to soft authoritarianism. President Barack Obama is all in, as well, claiming […]

While her husband’s signature health care law goes up in flames, first lady Michelle Obama is reveling in the success of her East Wing pet project, the “Let’s Move” initiative. But ignore the do-gooder dressing. Mrs. Obama doesn’t care about your children. What we have here is a textbook case of Washington influence peddling, which […]

Often in error but never in doubt, Barack Obama could walk into the Rose Garden and step on a half-dozen rakes like Foghorn Leghorn in an old Looney Tunes cartoon, and the official line would be, “He meant to do that.” And the amazing thing is that so many people believe it. “Mr. Obama is […]

I just don’t understand it. Everywhere we turn, we conservatives are told we need to moderate, be less extreme, be more bipartisan. The public just wants us all to get along and solve our major problems together. Democratic politicians and the liberal media harp on the alleged extremism of mainstream conservatism, the tea party, Sen. […]

When New York City’s strikingly successful police commissioner, Raymond Kelly, arrived to address students at Brown University, he was harassed, booed and heckled for 30 long minutes. “Racism is not for debate,” they shouted. A university official pleaded with the goons, er, students to permit Kelly to speak, reminding them that they would be free […]

Many news stories have noted the importance of getting young, healthy people to sign up for insurance on the exchanges created by President Obama’s health care law. The Washington Post’s Ezra Klein reported that the White House considers this the single most important factor in making the law work. Klein is a huge fan of […]

The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ), which is legally challenging ObamaCare, said the testimony by HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius before a House Committee will not reassure the American people about ObamaCare. “Secretary Sebelius failed to provide any reason why the American people should have confidence in ObamaCare and a website that failed to […]

By 1968, President Lyndon Baines Johnson was finally done in by his “credibility gap” — the growing abyss between what he said about, and what was actually happening inside, Vietnam. “Modified limited hangout” and “inoperative” were infamous euphemisms that Nixon administration officials used to mask lies about the Watergate scandal. After a while, few believed […]

“World War II Vets Under Attack by Blacks.” Can you imagine such a headline in The New York Times — or anywhere else, except perhaps some in underground racist tract? But for the second time in three months, an 80-plus-year-old WWII veteran was murdered by black suspects. In Washington, 88-year-old Delbert Belton, who fought and […]

Apparently, President Barack Obama was fibbing when he said in 2009 that under his Affordable Care Act, “if you like your health care plan, you’ll be able to keep your health care plan, period.” On Wednesday, Washington Post fact checker Glenn Kessler rated that pledge as a four-Pinocchio whopper. On Monday, Peter Lee, the executive […]

When the withdrawal of American troops from Afghanistan is completed next year what will happen to Afghan women? Will a resurgent Taliban return them to wearing burqas, withdraw them from schools and force them to live behind painted glass in their homes, permitting them to leave the house only when accompanied by a blood relative? […]

Question: Now that it appears that 16 million Americans will lose the health insurance they currently have as a result of Obamacare, where will they turn for coverage? Answer: Obamacare By the middle of next year, President Obama and his team are going to have to face the embarrassment of few enrollees in Obamacare. They […]

Rollout of ObamaCare The American Center for Law and Justice (ACLJ),: which is legally challenging ObamaCare, said today HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius must be forthcoming and held accountable when she testifies: tomorrowbefore a House Committee concerning the disastrous rollout of ObamaCare. “Whether it’s the website, the inability of Americans to secure affordable health care, or the millions […]

We have Obamacare for one reason and one reason only: For a brief, ghoulish period in recent history, Democrats controlled the White House, the Senate and the House of Representatives. We don’t have Obamacare because the public was clamoring for it. We have it because Republicans lost elections. First, Republicans lost their majorities in the […]

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 […]