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Veronique de Rugy, The goal of health care reform is to provide better health care to everyone at a lower cost, year after year. The solution is not to provide a better third-party-payer system — e.g., health insurance or government-provided health insurance — but instead to allow technological development and entrepreneurship to improve the current
Good fortune grew me up in Maine, sent me lawyering in Seattle, New York and Washington. Public service bounced me about the three branches, and military. Here is what I learned: Leadership styles differ markedly. Different is not bad. Different is just different, hard to recognize for those to whom it is unfamiliar. When I
The Muslim call to prayer rang out through Times Square in New York City on Sunday afternoon as a large, mixed-faith crowd of merchandise hawkers, social activists, organizers, curious tourists – and genuine protesters – declared their allegiance with Islam. “I am a Muslim, too!” the group chanted several times at the anti-President Trump rally
Walter E. Williams, Ordinary black people cannot afford to go along with the liberal agenda that calls for undermining police authority. That agenda makes for more black crime victims. Let’s look at what works and what doesn’t work. In 1990, New York City adopted the practice in which its police officers might stop and question
A rare bacterial disease linked to rats — and normally only seen in animals — has killed one person in The Bronx and left two others fighting for their lives, city officials reported Tuesday. The three cases of leptospirosis were identified in a one block radius of the Concourse section of the Bronx over the
Dan Lyman | Infowars, Pro-Hillary group opposes SecEd nominee on religious grounds. A New York teacher’s union is imploring members to pressure U.S. senators to vote ‘No’ on the confirmation of Betsy DeVos for Secretary of Education. In an electronic mailer signed off with Hillary Clinton’s campaign slogan, “Stronger Together,” educators are given a list
Seton Motley, Governments the world over have spent the last century-plus rigidly insisting that they can do…well, everything better than We the People can. That private citizens, engaged in voluntary interactions amongst themselves - will only blow it. That government is required to run things - to ensure nothing goes sideways. As the last century-plus
Everything said about President Trump’s “Muslim ban” is a lie — including that it’s a Muslim ban. The New York Times wore out its thesaurus denouncing the order: “cruelty … injury … suffering … bigoted, cowardly, self-defeating … breathtaking … inflammatory … callousness and indifference” — and that’s from a single editorial! Amid the hysteria
Former New York Police Department Commissioner Bernie Kerik fired back at Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer, accusing him of not showing emotion in the aftermath of the September 11th, 2001 terror attacks like he did following President Trump’s travel ban order. Schumer appeared to hold back tears at a press conference denouncing Trump’s order, which bars immigration
Lee Stranahan, The Council on American-Islamic Relations, aka CAIR, has helped launch a series of protests across the country and plans lawsuits related to President Trump’s recent executive orders on immigration. The orders are designed to keep Americans safer from terrorism by temporarily barring visitors from Iran, Iraq, Somalia, Syria, Yemen, Libya, and Sudan from
John R. Lott, The headline on the front page of the Washington Post sure sounded impressive: “More than 1,100 law school professors nationwide oppose Sessions’s nomination as attorney general.” Since then, the total has increased to 1,424 faculty members from 180 law schools in 49 different states. With Senate Judiciary committee getting ready to vote