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Don’t Take a Knee, GOP
One key anti-Obamacare vote would demonstrate to voters that House Republicans are more interested in fighting for Main Street Americans than in running out the clock or placating the insurance lobby.
The Weekly Standard, September 15, 2014 -
Can Elephants Survive a Legal Ivory Trade?
While the debate continues over the potential merits of limited legal ivory trade to China, evidence suggests that the one-off sale of ivory in 2008 has proved disastrous to elephants, who have since been slaughtered at the gruesome rate of about 100 elephants a day.
National Geographic, August 29, 2014 -
Repeal Obamacare, Don’t ‘Reform’ It
Is the establishment wing of the Republican Party starting to go soft on repeal?
The Weekly Standard, September 2, 2014 -
Republicans Misread Their ‘Gender Gap’ Problem
Rather than trying to cater to women (or other groups), Republicans should advance a reform agenda that would limit government and improve the lives of everyday Americans of both sexes and all races.
Bloomberg View, August 29, 2014 -
Insurance Executive Complains: Attacking Obamacare ‘Bailout’ Is ‘Unfair’
One of the key players in the cozy alliance between Big Government and Big Insurance doesn’t think it’s fair to criticize Obamacare’s looming taxpayer ‘bailout’ of insurance companies.
The Weekly Standard, August 29, 2014 -
Sink the Obamacare Bailout
It would be hard to find an issue upon which more Americans agree than the need to stop insurance companies from being bailed out by taxpayers when they lose money under Obamacare.
National Review Online, August 27, 2014 -
Making Ryan’s Tax Plan Smarter
Championing pro-family tax reform might make it easier to achieve pro-growth tax reform.
Bloomberg View, August 25, 2014 -
Slimming the College-Tuition Beast
While the federal government continues to incentivize colleges to raise costs, states are starting to take the lead in reducing them.
Orange County Register, August 25, 2014 -
The Perils of Police Cameras
Constant video surveillance of American life is far more likely to undermine liberty than to secure it.
Bloomberg, August 24, 2014 -
Do Americans Dislike Obamacare More Than Obama Likes Golf?
Try as he might, President Obama can’t get on the golf course as often as new anti-Obamacare polls are released.
The Weekly Standard, August 26, 2014 -
Poll: Voters Overwhelmingly Oppose Executive Action On Immigration
A detailed new immigration poll finds strong opposition to President Obama’s handling of the issue, strong opposition to the Gang of Eight’s goals, and strong support for a three-pronged approach of funding enforcement, sending back recent arrivals, and reining in Obama’s lawlessness.
The Weekly Standard, August 20, 2014 -
‘Avik-Care’ May Expand Obamacare
James Madison wrote in Federalist 10 about the need to “refine and enlarge” public opinion, but should conservatives really be trying to refine and enlarge Obamacare, especially when the public rightly despises it?
Newsmax, August 18, 2014 -
Have Republicans Given Up On Attacking Obamacare?
The I-95 press corps naively continues to project its own acceptance of Obamacare onto the rest of the nation, even as this fall’s election is potentially shaping up as a second major electoral rebuke of the unpopular overhaul.
The Federalist, August 20, 2014 -
The Punitive Bureaucracy’s Day Off
An arrogant and authoritarian federal bureaucracy is incompatible with the spirit of a free country and a free people.
SteynOnline, August 19, 2014 -
Be Alarmed . . . Be Very Alarmed
Our rash defense cuts may cost us more in the long run, writes a distinguished congressionally appointed panel, as “each service is experiencing degradations in so many areas at once…at a time of growing security challenges”—and “the longer readiness is allowed to deteriorate, the more money will be required to restore it.”
The Weekly Standard, August 11, 2014