Yesterday Republican Senators Orrin Hatch (UT), Richard Burr (NC) and Tom Coburn (OK) released a proposal for health-care reform. Some commentators are suggesting that Hatch-Burr-Coburn is an incremental approach in that while it “would not usher in a free market ... READ MORE
Can President Obama be trusted to try to keep the promises he makes in his State of the Union address? Does ObamaCare's HHS contraception and early abortion drug mandate harm women or the poor in some fashion, and if so, ... READ MORE
Late last week the Obama Administration announced that 3 million people had enrolled* in private plans on the ObamaCare exchanges. Although such data about January enrollment was supposed to be released in mid-February—Administration lackeys have previously said that data released ... READ MORE
At last night’s Grammy Awards, where the news was supposed to be about the year’s best musical performances, politics became performance art as 33 couples — many of them same-sex couples — were married at the awards ceremony. The couples ... READ MORE
I admit that ObamaCare, voter ID and racism do not seem related at first glance, but hear me out. The central selling premise (other than "if you like your doctor or health plan, you can keep them") of ObamaCare was ... READ MORE
Going back through some of my past blog posts, I found this one from late July of last year about a Paul Krugman column. Here’s a quote from Krugman’s missive sure to generate a chuckle: Yet even as Republican politicians ... READ MORE
In what was apparently his odd way of honoring the spirit of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., the Reverend William Barber II, president of the North Carolina chapter of the NAACP, chose to demean the first black senator to serve ... READ MORE
As part of an ongoing series of reports on income inequality, Project 21 member Hughey Newsome provided expert commentary on the January 24 edition of “Special Report with Bret Baier” on the Fox News Channel. Hughey talked about remedies to ... READ MORE
In a "The Root" column, Legalized Marijuana: Will White People Get the Good Pot?, writer Charles Ellison worries: What kind of weed will certain populations get? Will market forces command higher grades of pot sold to some and lower grades ... READ MORE
Target has announced “after much thoughtful consideration…to discontinue part-time health insurance coverage for [their] stores’ part-time team members, beginning April 1, 2014.” It further states in a press release: Target has dedicated substantial resources to guide our team through every ... READ MORE
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