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Breaking down the ObamaCare claims.
Mar 13, 2010
Above all other reasons, voters who oppose ObamaCare cite their fear over costs: They think it will cause their insurance premiums to soar and result in far higher taxes to fund a vast new entitlement. The public is right on both counts, which is why White House smokejumpers have [...]

Mr. Petri’s bill of college subsidies.
Mar 13, 2010

In a nearby letter, Republican Congressman Tom Petri writes that we have been “sold a bill of goods on student loans.” Our sin is to oppose a government takeover of college financing, which will take a giant leap forward if Congress jams its pending student-loan changes on to [...]

Janet Yellen and the reflation bet.
Mar 13, 2010

President Obama’s plan to nominate economist and San Francisco Fed President Janet Yellen to be Vice Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board is both unsurprising and in one sense appropriate. The Administration has wagered all of its economic policy chips on a reflation bet, and Ms. Yellen believes [...]

The notion of objective truth has been abandoned and the peer review process gives scholars ample opportunity to reward friends and punish enemies.
Mar 13, 2010
By PETER BERKOWITZ
Last fall, emails revealed that scientists at the Climatic Research Unit at the University of East Anglia in England and colleagues in the U.S. and around the globe deliberately [...]

Speaker Pelosi’s Treasure Hunt for votes isn’t going well.
Mar 12, 2010

By JOHN FUND
It’s official. The Senate parliamentarian has ruled that if the House of Representatives passes the health care bill approved by the Senate last December, President Obama will have to sign it into law before any amendments can be made.
That puts House Democrats in [...]

Oh, wait. Actually, they say it’s good news, and that’s why it’s bad news.
March 12, 2010
By JAMES TARANTO
This headline in the Washington Post seemed like a pleasant surprise: “Rise in Washington Area Unemployment Seen as Good Sign for Economy’s Recovery.”
The logic seems unassailable: The District of Columbia is the hub of the political class. Higher [...]

March 13, 2010

 
by Jillian Bandes

It’s depressing that President Obama is the one calling the shots on the budget right now instead of Rep. Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.).
Obama has created a “deficit commission” to address burgeoning U.S. debts that will be staffed by lawmakers from both parties. Many observers believe that this commission is merely a bipartisan [...]

March 13, 2010

 
by Bill O’Reilly

For the first time that I can remember, there were no politically charged comments at the Academy Awards ceremony last Sunday. And I was ready. We had left-wing bomb throwers like George Clooney, Sean Penn, Barbra Streisand and co-host Alec Baldwin all lined up in the “let it fly” zone. But [...]

Washington has misread the public. People want problem-solving, not political whiplash.
 
Mar 12, 2010
by: Michael Medved
According to the all-but-unchallenged conventional wisdom, the American people feel angry at the status quo and demand dramatic change.
Why, then, do recent polls show public sentiment tilting toward the GOP — the very party that’s stubbornly resisting change? And why should [...]