A sneaky Medicare levy on dividends and capital gains.
FEB 24, 2010
The White House’s new health-care proposal promises the “largest middle class tax cut for health care in history,” which is a creative way of describing a vast taxpayer-subsidized insurance entitlement. Naturally, the fine print goes on to describe one of the largest tax increases for [...]

The campaign finance crowd has more ideas for limiting speech.
FEB 24, 2010
It didn’t take long for Congress to try an end-run around the Supreme Court’s landmark January decision in Citizens United v. FEC. With a campaign finance bill due to be introduced this week, Democrats are proposing to repeal the First Amendment, at least for [...]

Posted 02/23/2010 06:54 PM ET

Health Reform: Is it a “summit” Republicans are about to take part in, or a “setup”? President Obama must pledge to them that Democrats won’t misuse budget rules to ram through health reform.
Thousands of pages of legislation transforming a sixth of the U.S. economy and profoundly affecting the lives of all [...]

Special counsel is needed to investigate Attorney General Holder
Feb 24, 2010
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
The rot at the Department of Justice grows more evident every day. Already being hit for botched decisions about terrorist trials and for dropping a voter-intimidation case against the New Black Panther Party, the department is taking another huge blow.
On Friday, Associate [...]

Democrats have no interest in bipartisanship
Feb 24, 2010
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Don’t buy into President Obama’s rhetoric about bipartisanship. He invited congressional Republicans to a summit tomorrow but continues to castigate them for being unwilling to meet him halfway. Some argue that reaching out to the opposition is wise politics aimed at the November elections, but [...]

It’s good work if you can get it
Feb 23, 2010
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Employment is up, wages are up, and job security is as firm as ever. Unfortunately, this is only true for federal government workers.
President Obama is presiding over the largest federal work force in decades. In the current fiscal year, the number of civilian [...]

Pork and waste foul the federal budget
Feb 21, 2010
By THE WASHINGTON TIMES
Forget fish in a barrel. Identifying ridiculous examples of congressional spending priorities is like shooting pigs in a slop pen.
At least once a week, and sometimes daily, the office of Sen. Tom Coburn, Oklahoma Republican, issues its “Pork Report” to highlight outrageous government waste. [...]

Posted 02/22/2010 06:53 PM ET
Border: The 2006 Secure Fence Act mandated the “possible” construction of a long wall to protect our frontier. Four years later, no wall, just a new seven-year delay. This is an embarrassment.
It was almost a prelude to the Tea Parties now sweeping the nation. Millions of Americans, reacting to brazen demonstrations [...]

Posted 02/22/2010 06:53 PM ET
Infiltration: What a tangled web Islamist appointees weave. When his pro-terrorist quotes surfaced, a new White House envoy dismissed them as someone else’s. A recording says otherwise.
Now Rashad Hussain, President Obama’s pick as special envoy to the Organization of the Islamic Conference, has changed his story. He admits he did indeed [...]

Posted 02/22/2010 06:53 PM ET

Health Care: The president has unveiled a reform plan of his own ahead of Thursday’s bipartisan summit. But it’s no better than the lousy Democratic proposals that Americans have already dismissed.
The Obama plan appears to be based on the bills that were passed last year in the House and in the [...]