Following Newtown and other recent random mass shootings, demands for gun control have drowned out pleas to fix our broken mental health care system. But taking steps to improve our mental health care system not only would do more than gun control to prevent other random mass shootings but also would be a memorial to the victims and good for our society.
1:14 PM 03/01/2013
First, President Obama decided that the government can punish consumers if they don’t buy a particular product (e.g., health insurance). Now, his administration has decided that the government can punish consumers if they don’t buy a product that can’t be purchased because it doesn’t exist.
12:10 PM 01/10/2013
Because it looks like we’re stuck with Obamacare (unless Chief Justice Roberts grows tired of media adulation before other constitutional challenges to the law reach the Supreme Court), here are some tips to help you make money from the law:
1:23 PM 11/20/2012
Conservatives pride themselves on having a more realistic view of human nature than liberals. But conservatives have not had a realistic view of voters.
4:22 PM 11/01/2012
President Obama has proclaimed himself the protector of Medicare benefits and warned that a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote to cut such benefits. But he’s been ignoring pleas by Medicare beneficiaries, hospitals, physicians, and various consumer and health care organizations to change a policy that’s been forcing Medicare beneficiaries to forgo needed care if they can’t pay the thousands of dollars that the care costs.
2:18 PM 10/18/2012
When President Barack Obama and his groupies in the media say that Mitt Romney is out of touch with average Americans, they want us to believe that the president is in touch with average Americans. But why should we?
4:28 PM 09/20/2012
So much attention has been paid to the freedoms we’ll be losing under Obamacare (courtesy of Chief Justice Roberts) that we’ve tended to overlook the many other reasons to oppose the law --- reasons that should make even liberals hate the legislation.
1:43 PM 08/17/2012
I know this will surprise many people, but just because President Obama says that he and his fellow rich haven’t been paying their “fair” share of taxes doesn’t make it so. People agreeing with him because he uses the word “fair” might reconsider if they realized that his notion of what’s “fair” is rooted in a view of success that denies the American Dream.
10:24 AM 07/27/2012
1.) The amount by which the public debt --- the portion of the national debt not borrowed by the U.S. government from funds it administers --- has increased since President Obama took office is unprecedented, not politics as usual: more than $4.75 trillion (more than 75%), according to the Treasury Department. If the president’s second-term budget is implemented, he will end up (according to the Congressional Budget Office) increasing the public debt by $8.9 trillion. That exceeds the public debt incurred by all previous presidents combined --- by more than $2.6 trillion.
