It’s customary for the previous month’s unemployment numbers to be released on the first Friday of the successive month. With the first Friday of July being a federal holiday, the government’s release of new jobless data was moved up by ... READ MORE
Why did VA employees manipulate wait time data, resulting in thousands of Veterans lingering on wait lists for care and at least 23 veterans dying because they had to wait too long? Phillip Longman, author of the Best Care Anywhere: ... READ MORE
Monday's two pro-freedom decisions by the U.S. Supreme Court has the anti-freedom totalitarian left up in arms, but that's no excuse for lying. Here's a sample of just a few of the whoppers just one of the leftist groups, ThinkProgress, ... READ MORE
Left-wing opponents of yesterday's Hobby Lobby decision are suggesting that companies that decline for religious reasons to provide early abortion drugs and devices could be sued under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act, which prohibits employment discrimination on the ... READ MORE
1. Hat tip to Kevin Williamson for linking to this year-old post from ThinkProgress. In support of a “living wage” of $15 per hour for fast-food workers, ThinkProgress cites research from a University of Kansas graduates student saying that McDonald’s ... READ MORE
Nearly all eyes turned toward the Supreme Court tomorrow are focused on the combined Hobby Lobby/Conestoga Woods cases -- but two First Amendment-related decisions are to be handed down tomorrow, and the one few people have heard about could be ... READ MORE
One almost has to give the President Obama points for chutzpah. He signs an executive order that has resulted in a huge flood of underage illegal immigrants into the nation, and now he wants Congress to authorize the spending of ... READ MORE
I made the following statement today regarding the Supreme Court's decision to strike down ObamaCare's HHS contraception mandate and uphold an employer's right not to be forced to provide birth control and early abortion drugs and devices to employees against ... READ MORE
Minimum wage laws — a centerpiece of President Obama’s class warfare agenda — has its origins in anti-black sentiment? Yes! That fact and other unsettling details about the racial underpinnings of progressive labor laws are laid bare by Project 21 ... READ MORE
I have a new National Policy Analysis out today entitled, “Intellectuals and the VA: How A Bad Idea and Bad Reporting Contributed to a Health Care Catastrophe.” It traces how Phillip Longman’s book Best Care Anywhere: Why VA Healthcare Is Better ... READ MORE
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