The weasels who wrote the Obama health law postponed the pain until after the 2012 presidential election. Popular provisions were put into effect immediately, such as allowing children to stay on their parent’s plan until age 26, offering “free” colonoscopies…
If you think the Obama health law won’t affect you because you have private insurance, keep reading. The Department of Health and Human Services announced final rules for private insurance last month. The federal government will have control over your…
On Fox News’ “Special Report” columnist Charles Krauthammer said it was “honorable” for Florida Governor Rick Scott to recommend the state buy into the Obama health law’s Medicaid expansion, despite Scott’s earlier opposition. In truth Scott’s decision is venal and…
Have you ever seen a water faucet burst into flames? You have if you’ve seen the documentary film Gasland, by Josh Fox. It’s the central message of his movie – that hydraulic fracturing for natural gas, or “fracking,” is polluting…
We know that regulation costs – big-time, in fact. My colleague Wayne Crews estimates the cost of regulation to the American economy as around $1.8 trillion a year (and these costs are mostly hidden, a “costberg” as he puts it)….
There’s been a lot of fuss recently from respected libertarian thinkers like J.D. Tuccille and Jonathan Adler about whether or not right to work laws are libertarian. They are offensive to the principle of freedom of contract, the argument goes,…
My friend Andrew Moylan of the R Street Institute has an excellent short paper out that summarizes five dos and five don’ts of the fiscal cliff negotiations. The don’ts are all common sense stuff, to which I would only add…
With the exception of an attempt by New York Mayor Bloomberg to divert attention away from his city’s woeful lack of disaster preparedness, global warming didn’t rate a mention in the presidential election campaign — but it returned soon after…
“This is the modern world. It’s miraculous, it’s intricate, and it gets better every day so long as people are free to interact with each other. If we can leave the creative energy of humankind uninhibited, there’s no limit to…
With people picking up the pieces after Sandy, the usual suspects like the New York Times are arguing that a big storm requires big government to clean up. This isn’t true, as I argue over in Forbes today. In fact,…
