A new congressional report has estimated that more than 25 million Americans without health insurance will not be made to pay a penalty in 2016 due to an exploding number of ObamaCare exemptions. The Wall Street Journal, citing an analysis by the Congressional Budget Office and the Joint Committee on Taxation, reported that the number […] Continue reading → 
Conservative Libertarianism Goes Mainstream On the right, there have always been labels to describe various factions of Republicans and conservatives. There are the “Reagan Republicans” and the “Main Street Republicans” and the neoconservatives. In 2010, we saw the rise of the tea party conservatives, a group of newly active citizens with a decidedly more anti-establishment, […] Continue reading → 
Yesterday, the DC Court of Appeals dealt a huge blow to a key provision of the signature healthcare law of the Obama administration, confirming worries that Obamacare is in big trouble. The court ruled that the subsidies being offered by the federal government for health insurance were only intended for individuals who had enrolled on […] Continue reading → 
U.S. judges have their work cut out for them untangling a legal knot created on Tuesday when two federal appeals courts released conflicting rulings hours apart going to the heart of the role the federal government will play in Obamacare. The latest conservative challenge to President Barack Obama’s healthcare overhaul will not necessarily land in […] Continue reading → 
The U.S. appeals court ruling issued on Tuesday striking down the government’s ability to offer Obamacare subsidies through federal insurance exchanges showed President Barack Obama was trying to “change the law at will,” Dr. Ben Carson told Fox News’ “America’s Newsroom.” A three-judge panel ruled the government could not provide subsidies to enrollees on the […] Continue reading → 
Two U.S. judicial panels on Tuesday injected new uncertainty into the future of President Barack Obama’s healthcare law, with conflicting rulings over whether the federal government can subsidize health insurance for millions of Americans. The appeals court rulings, handed down by three-judge panels in Washington, D.C., and Richmond, Virginia, augured a possible rematch before the […] Continue reading → 
Kevin Glass While the Bureau of Labor Statistics’ jobs report this week contained mostly good news, our economic statistics have been shaky over the past few months. A major downward revision to economic growth has a report showing that the economy contracted by almost 3% last quarter. It’s possible that Obamacare is holding back the […] Continue reading → 
Michael Schaus The White House Calligrapher makes just under $98,000 per year… I never imagined “calligrapher” as a viable career option. In fact, I’m pretty certain that was not on the list of career possibilities that my college advisor shared with me in high school. (Breitbart) Land of the (mostly) free… Americans are beginning to […] Continue reading → 
Chris Edwards Since the 1960s, the Catalog of Federal Domestic Assistance (CFDA) has provided a list of all federal subsidy programs. That includes subsidies to individuals, businesses, nonprofit groups, and state and local governments. The CFDA includes subsidies for farmers, retirees, school lunches, rural utilities, the energy industry, rental housing, public broadcasting, job training, foreign […] Continue reading → 
Republican primary challenger Chris McDaniel puts the nation’s $17 trillion debt at the center of his bid to represent Mississippi in the Senate, bashing six-term Sen. Thad Cochran as a profligate spender who has contributed to a problem that McDaniel considers “immoral.” At the same time, the potential tea party hero pledges support for Mississippi’s […] Continue reading → 
James Simpson Accuracy in Media This weekend the Obama administration announced a trade for the release of Army Specialist Bowe Bergdahl, offering in exchange the five most deadly Taliban terrorists incarcerated at Guantanamo Bay. This was an illegal act. The president is required by law to inform Congress 30 days before making such a decision. […] Continue reading → 
Guy Benson We’ve been buried in the Bergdahl story all week, but this nugget is worth coming up for air to cover. By way of background, on the eve of Democrats’ party-line Obamacare vote in 2010, they used a cynically manufactured Congressional Budget Office (CBO) “score” to provide jittery members a fig leaf with which […] Continue reading → 
A House panel has voted against proposed Pentagon cuts in housing allowances, subsidies to commissaries and changes in the military health care system. By voice vote on Wednesday, the House Armed Services personnel subcommittee backed legislation that rebuffs Pentagon efforts to rein in the increasing cost of military benefits. The full Armed Services Committee is […] Continue reading → 
Income inequality has long been one of the liberals’ favorite issues. So there is nothing surprising about its being pushed hard this election year. If nothing else, it is a much-needed distraction from the disasters of ObamaCare and the various IRS, Benghazi and other Obama administration scandals. Like so many other favorite liberal issues, income […] Continue reading →