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How Medicaid Fails Hispanics

Daniel Noe  The White House recently began a Spanish-language media blitz encouraging people to sign up for the Affordable Care Act (the ACA, or “Obamacare”)—which, for the lowest-income Americans, means Medicaid. Having a Medicaid card in your wallet is better for your health than having no coverage at all. But it’s also worse than just […] Continue reading →

Masking totalitarianism

Walter Williams ,  One of the oldest notions in the history of mankind is that some people are to give orders and others are to obey. The powerful elite believe that they have wisdom superior to the masses and that they’ve been ordained to forcibly impose that wisdom on the rest of us. Their agenda […] Continue reading →

Do Americans prefer deception?

There’s more to the deceit and dishonesty about Social Security and Medicare discussed in my recent columns. Congress tells us that one-half (6.2 percent) of the Social Security tax is paid by employees and that the other half is paid by employers, for a total of 12.4 percent. Similarly, we are told that a Medicare tax […] Continue reading →

Education: Racial trade-offs

Racial trade-offs
Trade-offs apply to our economic lives, as well as our political lives. That means getting more of one thing requires giving up something else. Let’s look at some examples. Black congressmen and black public officials in general, including Barack Obama, always side with teachers unions in their opposition to educational vouchers, tuition tax credits, charter […] Continue reading →

Marxist-in-Chief: 50 Shades of Treason

by Terresa Monroe-Hamilton U.S. Constitution – Article 3 Section 3 Treason against the United States, shall consist only in levying War against them, or in adhering to their Enemies, giving them Aid and Comfort. No Person shall be convicted of Treason unless on the Testimony of two Witnesses to the same overt Act, or on […] Continue reading →

Back to School: Re-education at George Mason

Re-education at George Mason
By: Walter Williams This week begins my 34th year serving on George Mason University�s distinguished economics faculty. You might imagine my surprise when I received a letter from its Office of Equity and Diversity Services notifying me that I was required to �complete the in-person Equal Opportunity and Prevention of Sexual Harassment Policies and Procedures […] Continue reading →

Natural Gas Prices and Energy manipulation

By: Walter Williams Why is it that natural gas sells in the U.S. for $3.94 per 1,000 cubic feet and in Europe and Japan for $11.60 and $17, respectively? Part of the answer is our huge supply. With high-tech methods of extraction and with discovery of vast gas-rich shale deposits, estimated reserves are about 2.4 […] Continue reading →

Is Racial Profiling moral?

By: Walter Williams Police Capt. Louis Renault, played by Claude Rains in the 1942 movie “Casablanca,” in the wake of the shooting of a Nazi officer, ordered his men to “round up the usual suspects.” Was Renault engaging in some sort of profiling? He may have been, but what is profiling? Let’s look at it. […] Continue reading →