The subsidies to buyers of ‘qualifying’ insurance policies will induce sharp reductions in the supply of labor. Apr 25, 2011 WSJ By DANIEL P. KESSLER Supporters of ObamaCare acknowledge it will have some unintended consequences. Yet surprisingly little attention has been focused on the law’s most problematic provision: government subsidies to help individuals and families [...]

As gas prices soar past $4 a gallon, the administration chases deep-sea rigs from the Gulf. Apr 25, 2011 WSJ By JOSEPH MASON This month, one year since the Deepwater Horizon explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the Noble Clyde Boudreaux—an ultra-deepwater semi-submersible drilling rig—will start operations off the coast of Brazil. Until a few [...]

Why Julian Assange is different from the New York Times. Apr 25, 2011 WSJ By L. GORDON CROVITZ In San Francisco last week, some 20 supporters of Bradley Manning spent $100,000 to go to a fund-raiser for President Obama to sing a song protesting the incarceration of the Army private. The accused leaker of hundreds [...]

Apr 25, 2011 By Rich Galen Gasoline prices are continuing to rise and it’s all Obama’s fault. Ok, that was just to get your attention, but let’s look at the numbers. The national average for regular unleaded gasoline, according to the Lundberg Survey stood at $3.88 a gallon on April 22, up about eleven-and-a-half cents [...]

Apr 25, 2011 By Lurita Doan As Obama travels about the country, speaking of the need  for  “shared sacrifice” and the need to increase taxes, he doesn’t say a word about the tsunami of new Obama regulations ranging from light bulbs to ozone pollution to painkillers to foreign travel to vending machines that is about [...]

Apr 26, 2011 By Saleno Zito PITTSBURGH – Here along the Allegheny River in 1753, a young George Washington, clad in a woolen match coat and accompanied by guide Christopher Gist, walked toward the forks of the Ohio River after spending the night on a tiny island. The night before he wrote in his journal [...]

By Michael Barone (Archive) · Monday, April 25, 2011 The defined benefit is dying. Barack Obama is struggling to keep it alive, but it’s apparent that it’s something that even as bounteously rich a society as ours can’t afford. Yes, I know that “defined benefit” is not a common household phrase. But most people know [...]

By Burt Prelutsky (Archive) · Monday, April 25, 2011 It was the great George Orwell who observed, “In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.” I agree. That is why I have a problem with Republican politicians allowing Nancy Pelosi to get away with insisting that Republicans are looking to [...]

Apr 25, 2011 By James Lewis The genius of the Constitution is not some person, time, or place.  It is a very improbable conjunction of all three.  Jefferson and Madison were not the only ones to fear the abuse of power.  That idea goes back to the Epic of Gilgamesh.  Every family with an alcoholic [...]

Apr 25, 2011 By Joseph Svetlic It is with great interest that I read this past week about the President’s initial response to rising gas prices.  What or who was to blame?  According to the President…speculators.  Nameless, faceless speculators.  They are to blame for the rising price of crude oil up and the accompanying price [...]