Financial Reform Bill Fortified with “Conflict Minerals” Mandate
Is there any conflict in the world too remote or too irrelevant to U.S. national security for Washington not to interfere in it somehow? Has Congress ever passed a bill ostensibly...
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Thanks to ObamaCare, Some Kids Won’t Have Health Insurance
The unintended consequences of ObamaCare continue to pile up. The latest is that some insurance companies are now refusing to write new policies that cover children as individuals, reports the Associated...
Did Pro-Lifers Err in Their Assertions of ObamaCare Abortion Funding?
On July 19 The New American reported that under ObamaCare the federal government has begun funding abortions through state high-risk insurance pools. Pennsylvania and Maryland have both received approval from the...
What Would Speaker Boehner Do?
House Republican Leader John Boehner of Ohio wants to be Speaker of the House of Representatives; and he will most likely be Speaker if the GOP regains control of the House...
Federal Medical Snooping — and How to Stop It
The 2009 economic stimulus package has largely been a bust. However, one sector of the economy that should be seeing robust growth is the medical software industry because the stimulus law...
ObamaCare Abortion Funding Has Begun
So much for President Obama’s executive order banning federal funding of abortions under ObamaCare. Two states, Pennsylvania and Maryland, have now accepted federal funds for high-risk insurance pools, and both offer...
A Friendly Chat With the First Nanny
Every First Lady, it seems, has to have a cause. Lady Bird Johnson had her beautification program. Nancy Reagan had “Just Say No” to drugs. Michelle Obama’s cause of choice (or...
Avandia: A Case Study in Big Pharma-FDA Collusion
Pharmaceutical manufacturer SmithKline Beecham, now GlaxoSmithKline, found in a 1999 study that its diabetes medicine, Avandia, posed serious heart attack risks — then buried the study for the next 11 years,...
Smelling a Rat at the IMF
“I smell a rat,” says Robert Wenzel, editor and publisher of EconomicPolicyJournal.com. The rodent whose odor Wenzel detects is the International Monetary Fund (IMF), which just issued a pair of reports...
Abortion Advocates Seek to Stifle Crisis Pregnancy Center Ads
Imagine a crisis pregnancy center, whose very purpose is to counsel pregnant women to preserve their unborn babies’ lives, representing itself as an abortion clinic. Hard to imagine, isn’t it? ...
The LIHEAP of Free Money
Through the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP), the federal government provides grants — currently about $5 billion of taxpayers’ money a year — to states to assist low-income households with...
Oakland Officials Get SMART to Circumvent the Constitution
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution is clear: “The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not...
Adding Refueling to the Fire of U.S.-Iran Tensions
“Airports in Britain, Germany, and the United Arab Emirates have refused to offer fuel to Iranian passenger jets after unilateral sanctions imposed by Washington,” according to a report in the UK...
ACLU Tries to Ground No-Fly List
Once in a while the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) gets something right. Case in point: the ACLU’s lawsuit challenging the federal no-fly list. ...
A Taxing Proposal for Online Retailers
There are many positive features about shopping online, including convenience, selection, and speed. There is also the fact that a customer doesn’t have to pay sales tax on items purchased from...