Bowe Bergdahl's court martial will soon start, but his desertion isn't the only possible crime in which I'm interested. Back in Stockman's congressional office, in June 2014, I wrote a letter from our office to the White House directly asking Obama "Was anyone in the Obama administration, or associated with the Obama administration, at any … Continue reading Here’s why Obama’s Bergdahl swap may be a federal crime
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Time for an update on the perpetual motion machine of Keynesian economics. We’ll start with the good news. The Treasury Department commissioned a study on the efficacy of the so-called stimulus spending that took place at the end of last decade. As discussed in this news report, the results were negative. …a scathing new Treasury-commissioned … Continue reading Stimulus Spending Doesn’t Work Down Under (Or in the US)
From Enron to Bernie Madoff, at the end of every great American financial scandal, the totality of the perpetrators’ greed seems to be matched only by the public’s incredulity at how such a thing could be allowed to happen. And thanks to Elon Musk, there’s a good chance we may all be asking this question … Continue reading Stop Elon Musk’s Tax Money Gravy Train
Law enforcement authorities identified the shooter at the GOP congressional baseball practice as James T. Hodgkinson (above, left) of Belleville, Illinois. There is a Twitter profile for a James Hodgkinson from Belleville, Illinois. The account was created in January 2014. The account was little used, but it does suggest the user was deeply interested in politics and was a fan of … Continue reading GOP baseball practice shooter in March: ‘It’s Time to Destroy Trump & Co.’
Obamacare has failed to deliver the health care reform Americans deserve. The Senate now has an opportunity to reform health care and walk our country back from the single-payer edge. After seven years of Obamacare, it’s important to remember the many ways Obamacare has failed us—and why consumer-friendly, market-driven health care should remain the goal. … Continue reading 5 Ways Obamacare Proves Government-Run Health Care Is a Disaster
In a column from December of 2015, the Wall Street Journal's Mary O'Grady unveiled an inconvenient fact that poverty warriors on the American left and right would perhaps prefer remain hidden: from 1980 to 2000, when the U.S. economy boomed, the number of Mexican arrivals into the U.S. grew from 2.2 million in 1980 to … Continue reading The Politically Hopeless, Completely Incoherent, and Totally Lame Economic Agenda of the Democratic Party
President Trump and congressional Republicans have a second chance to take a whack at the Obamacare piñata – and the beauty of it is that this time, Democrats may want to take a swing at it, too. “It” being the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB), a.k.a the death panel that was much in the news during the debate over passage … Continue reading 15 Faceless Bureaucrats Will Decide what Health Care You’re Allowed to Have
