Medicare: 50 Years of Socialized Medicine
Medicare became law 50 years ago, with disastrous results for taxpayers, seniors, and the U.S. healthcare system. ...
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NSA Sponsoring Summer Camps for Future Cybersnoops
The National Security Agency is sponsoring summer camps across the country designed to teach kids how to steal information, preparing them to do the agency's dirty work when they...
Obama’s Costly Dishwasher Rules Could Make Americans Dishpan Handlers
The Obama administration is proposing regulations that would increase the price of a dishwasher by nearly $100, cost jobs, and do little to improve the environment. ...
Supreme Court Once Again Saves ObamaCare by Rewriting It
The Supreme Court ruled Thursday that ObamaCare's insurance subsidies can continue to flow to individuals buying insurance on the federal exchange despite clear statutory language to the contrary. ...
Democrats Move to Strike “Husband” and “Wife” From Federal Law
In the wake of the Supreme Court's Obergefell decision, congressional Democrats have introduced legislation to strike the words "husband" and "wife" from federal law. ...
House Votes to Revive No Child Left Behind
The House voted Wednesday to revive the long-expired but still funded No Child Left Behind Act, albeit with some modest reforms, when they should simply have defunded it. ...
Big Insurance Rate Hikes May Portend ObamaCare “Death Spiral”
Health insurers are seeking double-digit rate increases for many ObamaCare exchange plans, suggesting that the exchanges are already entering a "death spiral" of high costs and losses. ...
U.K. Education Minister: Schools May “Confiscate” Unhealthful Foods
Teachers in British public schools may search students’ lunch boxes and “confiscate, keep or destroy” any items they find that violate school food policies, declared U.K. Education Minister Lord...
ObamaCare Co-ops Lose Money While Executives Get Rich
ObamaCare's insurance co-ops are fast running out of money, yet their executives are being rewarded with huge salaries. ...
E-mails Prove Jonathan Gruber Was Prime Architect of ObamaCare
Despite his and Democrats' denials, a recently released trove of e-mails shows that MIT economist Jonathan Gruber played a central role in getting ObamaCare drafted and passed. ...
Supreme Court: Govt. Can’t Take Growers’ Raisins Without Compensation
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that the government, under a New Deal-era program, could not confiscate a portion of a grower's raisin crop without compensating him for it. ...
Inside Track
Running short of cash, state ObamaCare exchanges are considering merging some of their services, which may be difficult and could lead to a nationwide health exchange. ...
FDA Bans Trans Fat Source in Processed Foods
The Food and Drug Administration announced a ban on the primary source of trans fats in processed foods, effective in three years. ...
ObamaCare’s Massive, “Perpetual” Data Warehouse
The federal government is storing large amounts of personal information about Healthcare.gov users in perpetuity, raising serious privacy concerns. ...
CIA Director: Foreign Intervention Can Make Us Less Secure
CIA Director John Brennan recently told a TV news program that U.S. intervention in foreign countries can actually make the United States less safe. ...