At a talk I attended when Obamacare was being debated, health economist John C. Goodman asked, "Would you want to be a patron of a restaurant that didn't want you as a customer?" He was getting at the fact that Obamacare would set up incentives for health insurers to avoid the sickest people because they … Continue reading Why Pre-Existing Conditions Should Be Left to the Market
Conservatives in the House and Senate are forging their own path ahead on Obamacare’s repeal and replacement, with plans to introduce legislation unwinding the health care law that Congress passed in 2015. In a press conference Tuesday, just hours after two House committees released the GOP’s replacement for the health care law, Rep. Jim Jordan, … Continue reading Conservative Lawmakers to Use Their ‘Enormous Power’ to Fight Obamacare Replacement Bill
The way to help women continue to move forward isn’t to propagate the myth that women in the United States are victims, oppressed by the system and unable to help themselves secure a better future. Yet that’s exactly the message of the “A Day Without a Woman” strike happening Wednesday. Various organizers, including the Women’s … Continue reading ‘A Day Without a Woman’ Strike Promotes Idea of Women as Helpless
Executive Order Protecting The Nation From Foreign Terrorist Entry Into The United States EXECUTIVE ORDER - - - - - - - PROTECTING THE NATION FROM FOREIGN TERRORIST ENTRY INTO THE UNITED STATES By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, … Continue reading Full text of Trump Executive Order travel ban
WASHINGTON, D.C. – (Mar. 6) In a joint op-ed at FoxNews.com, U.S. Senator Rand Paul and U.S. House Freedom Caucus chairman Mark Meadows called on congressional leadership to pass a clean repeal of Obamacare right away and ensure a fair, open replacement process so all voices are heard. “If anyone tells you there isn’t a plan … Continue reading Rand Paul, Mark Meadows: Let’s fully repeal ObamaCare, and then have an open debate on how to replace it.
The following is from the Korean Central News Agency, the official state-run propaganda mill of the North Korean dictatorship: Pyongyang, March 7 (KCNA) -- Kim Jong Un, chairman of the Workers' Party of Korea, chairman of the State Affairs Commission of the DPRK and supreme commander of the Korean People's Army (KPA), supervised a ballistic rocket … Continue reading Official North Korean Statement: We are preparing for strike on US military forces (PHOTOS)
For the last five years, conservative lawmakers have rallied behind efforts to close the Export-Import Bank, and were successful in 2015, albeit briefly, when the bank’s charter lapsed for the first time in its history. But now, with President Donald Trump in the White House, conservative lawmakers may have a chance to shutter the bank … Continue reading Trump’s Mixed Signals on Export-Import Bank Leave Door Open for Conservatives
Recently, Harvard political theorist Danielle Allen wrote in the Washington Post about “The most important phrase in the Pledge of Allegiance”—“with liberty and justice for all.” Allen recognizes that justice requires “equality before the law” and that “freedom is freedom only when it is for everyone.” But she confuses democracy with liberty, which is very … Continue reading Liberty and “Social” Justice for All Is Impossible
By Stephen Lam and Tim Branfalt BERKELEY, Calif./LANSING, Mich. (Reuters) - Supporters of Donald Trump clashed with counter-protesters at a rally in the famously left-leaning city of Berkeley, California, on a day of mostly peaceful gatherings in support of the U.S. president across the country. At a park in Berkeley, across the bay from San … Continue reading PHOTOS: In day of pro Trump rallies, California march turns violent
When Joseph Whitworth was growing up in Stockport, the man who became the greatest mechanical engineer of the Victorian age witnessed a traumatic sight. In 1812, this unlovely industrial town on the outskirts of Manchester was overrun by Luddite rioters, all the more terrifying as they were wearing women’s clothes as they went on the … Continue reading The Luddites Were Wrong Then and They’re Wrong Now
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