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With Obamacare Still on Books, Americans in Dire Need of Better Insurance Options
Now that the Supreme Court has just—yet again—left the Affordable Care Act on the books, it’s a good time to ask just how well the program is doing. A good place to start: how is it working to help the sick? And why are people still saying they want better options? For example, as more people…John Goodman -
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Obamacare’s Side Effects: Higher Costs, Lower Choices
One of the main goals of Obamacare, formally known as the Affordable Care Act, was to make individual insurance cheaper and more accessible for Americans. The health care law imposed new mandates and regulations on the market for individual insurance, and the data indicates these reforms did exactly the opposite of the goal: In nearly…Abigail Slagle -
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Biden Administration Is Forcing Navy to Make False Choice
The executive branch showers the federal government with easy money. It seems odd, then, that the federal government is making the Department of Defense choose between a false set of budget options when investing in defense—especially the Navy and cybersecurity—yields high returns. Consider the following events that have taken place over the past three months:…Brent Sadler -
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Biden Administration Uses Term ‘Birthing Person’ Instead of ‘Mother’
Joe Biden ran on an absurdly radical platform for a “moderate,” but it looks like he saved a lot of his truly crazy ideas for the White House. Just when Americans think his policies can’t get any more deranged, he unleashes a budget that cancels moms. In a bizarre attempt to transgender the English language,…Tony Perkins -
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Biden Divides Us. Here Are 12 Principles That Can Unite Us.
Americans are woke. They woke up and realized President Joe Biden is no moderate. He is spearheading the most radical policies in modern history, policies that would transform this nation into an unrecognizable country—far less safe, more impoverished, and more unfree. Nevertheless, the vital issues of the day pull us together. Conservatives share a common…Charmaine Yoest -
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Biden Administration Eyes Ending Discrimination Against Dead. (Don’t Put It Past Them.)
Editor’s note: The following is satire. Consider the wild success that the Biden administration has enjoyed in its unilateral modification of the term “sex” in federal anti-discrimination law to include “gender identity” (aka what someone might feel like on any given day). Now, President Joe Biden is reversing a rule inherited from his predecessor that…Paul J. Larkin -
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Could Biden IRS Expansion Plan Signal Return to Politicization?
Given the Internal Revenue Service’s history of politicization, conservatives are expressing concern about the potential for abuse from President Joe Biden’s proposed doubling of the number of IRS agents. A massive information leak of private tax data has only exacerbated those concerns. Ahead of IRS Commissioner Charles Rettig’s testimony before a Senate committee Tuesday, ProPublica,…Fred Lucas -
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Biden Plans to Reduce the Deficit—in 2030
Americans, President Joe Biden’s budget proposal suggests, should not worry that he plans to significantly increase federal deficits over the next eight years. Why? Because he intends to begin reducing them—but not eliminating them—nine years from now. Of course, even if the now 78-year-old Biden were to run for reelection in 2024 and win the…Terence Jeffrey -
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Biden’s Tulsa Speech Continues the ‘Can’t Do’ Narrative
President Joe Biden has pledged to “help narrow the racial wealth gap and reinvest in communities that have been left behind by failed policies.” He used the 100th anniversary of the Tulsa Race Massacre in Greenwood, a thriving African American community ravaged by a racist mob in 1921, as the occasion to promise more federal…Cal Thomas -
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Biden Buries Bad News of a Bloated, Reckless Budget and Hopes You Won’t Notice
When there’s bad news to be released in Washington, a tried-and-true tactic is to dump it on a Friday afternoon. If it’s really bad news, then make sure to release it before a long holiday weekend. President Joe Biden followed this strategy, releasing his budget proposal on the Friday afternoon before the Memorial Day holiday….Matthew Dickerson -
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Breaking Down Biden’s Proposed ‘Ghost Gun’ Rules
When President Joe Biden announced a plan in mid-February to “tackle gun violence,” he said he would direct the Justice Department to issue new regulations for so-called ghost guns. The Justice Department last week finally made public what those new rules would be, setting off a flood of commentary on a technical and oft-misunderstood topic….Amy Swearer -
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Biden’s Family Leave Plan a Permanent Burden for Temporary Problem
If you’re a politician peddling big new government programs for which there is little need but hefty price tags, you need a clever marketing strategy. At the least, your sales pitch could use a decent sound bite. Such marketing is what the Biden administration with its friends in Congress and the media are doing when…Veronique de Rugy -
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19 States’ AGs Urge Biden to Reinstate Keystone After Colonial Pipeline Hack Causes Mass Gas Shortages
A 19-state coalition urged President Joe Biden to reinstate the Keystone XL pipeline and reverse his energy policies because of the recent gas shortages. Gas shortages along the East Coast caused by a cyberattack on the Colonial Pipeline prove the need for reliable gas pipelines in the U.S., the 19-state coalition of attorneys general led…Thomas Catenacci -
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Bernie Sanders’ Attack on US Defense Spending Gets the Facts Wrong
The Senate Committee on the Budget held a hearing on “Waste, Fraud, Cost Overruns, and Auditing at the Pentagon” on May 12. By the title you might think the conclusion of the hearing was preordained: The Department of Defense is the greatest example of fraud and mismanagement in the federal government. You would have been…Frederico Bartels -
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Biden Off to a Disastrous Start
Presidents aren’t supreme beings imbued with the power to dictate economic conditions, pandemics or international events. We give them far too much credit and blame for the vagaries of the world. That said, there are some things that presidents do have the power to influence. The location of MLB’s All-Star Game, for instance, is not…David Harsanyi -
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Biden Administration Is Mocking Ancient Wisdom
Human nature stays the same across time and space. That is why there used to be predictable political, economic, and social behavior that all countries understood. The supply of money governs inflation. Print it without either greater productivity or more goods and services, and the currency cheapens. Yet America apparently rejects that primordial truism. The…Victor Davis Hanson -
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Team Biden’s Rigid Control of the Press
Everyone knew instinctively that the Biden White House would get enormous cooperation and positive media coverage from the “news” media, given that it follows the alleged democracy-darkening Donald Trump days. But Team Biden’s control of the narrative can look more like a stranglehold. On May 10, Politico revealed that “If you’ve read a quote from…Tim Graham -
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Biden Nominee at State Runs Center Funded Mostly by That Agency
President Joe Biden’s nominee for a top State Department post runs a private organization that has received tens of millions from the federal agency. Biden’s nomination of Lee Satterfield as assistant secretary for the State Department’s Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs has prompted concerns about the appearance of a conflict of interest. Satterfield is…Fred Lucas -
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Biden Sets Everything on Fire
Joe Biden is the luckiest man to ever assume the presidency. He succeeded an unpopular figure. He was inaugurated just two weeks after the dramatic storming of the U.S. Capitol by extremist Donald Trump supporters seeking to stop the certification of the 2020 election, which was also the beginning of the year after widespread race…Ben Shapiro -
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Christian College Fights Biden Directive Allowing Men to Live in Women’s Dorms
A small Missouri college is taking the Biden administration to court over a directive that allows biological men who “identify” as women to live in female-only dormitories. The College of the Ozarks, a Christian school with just over 1,500 students, filed a lawsuit against the Biden administration in April after the Department of Housing and…Virginia Allen