Oct 24, 2013 – CareFirst is the latest insurer to break the bad news to its customers: CareFirst BlueCross BlueShield is being forced … A final reminder: Obamacare, contrary to Democrats' assurances, is bending the national healthcare cost curve in the wrong direction … Hitting the administration hard for its transcendent incompetence is a political no-brainer for Republicans, but relentlessly highlighting…

Oct 24, 2013 – That the mainstream media is biased against Republicans is news only to those who’ve been living in bomb shelters since the 1950s … But it’s not just on a national scale. Which state-level stories warrant national media coverage expose bias as well. … Soon after, the bill became law anyway, but national media still fawns over Davis, now running for governor. Why?…

Oct 23, 2013 – They caused economic and political wreckage and got nothing for it. … Cruz’s national ambitions have been dealt a lethal setback." … They bemoan the division and vitriol that now characterizes the national political process and long for the days of Clinton-Gingrich…

Oct 22, 2013 – A new Washington Post-ABC News national survey, however, contains fresh troubling news for the Obama administration: … Annual premiums would drop by $2,500 per family, healthcare-related deficits would go down, overall national health spending would … Spiking out-of-pocket expenses, dropped coverage, limited access, part-time work, and significantly inflated national spending.…

Oct 21, 2013 – posture is the Obamacare equivalent of his go-to "I heard about [issue X] on the news like everyone else" excuse. … administration deliberately delayed issuing crucial specifications and regulations until after the 2012 election entirely for political … Multiple news outlets have reported that White House officials have known for months that this law wasn't going to be ready for primetime…

Nov 6, 2013 – He roughly doubled Mitt Romney's paltry share of the national Latino vote in 2012. … Can he build on his momentum and carry his success over on a national level? … I'll leave you with my discussion of last night's results on Fox News earlier today.…

Nov 5, 2013 – This shift in stance by progressive economic elites, which the Times subheadlines “A Break From The Past,” gives the GOP a political … Now William Tucker, news editor of RealClearEnergy.org. drawing on and citing the work of Lewis E. … This is what differentiates us from Japan, which may have twice our national debt but does not have the same exposure in international…

Nov 4, 2013 – As much as the law's technical difficulties have become a national punchline, the more lasting sources of frustration have arisen from … NBC News reported last week that the administration's own 2010 analysis concluded that the promise would not stand up for many. … Democratic senators and their political advisers have been lobbying the White House and the Department of Health and Human Services…

Nov 3, 2013 – Since every Democracy on earth seems to have a national health care plan, why not us? … I got news for you, however: You were always slow. We’ve been cursing at you from both lanes for years. … , is to force political changes whose longer-term goal is to dismantle the European welfare state.…

Nov 2, 2013 – I continue to say Fed news should be interpreted as a red flag for the US economy. … People are bombarded each day with excuses or news people fear by the very leaders we elect to give us confidence. … It would be the perfect moment to pump some air in our sagging national confidence.…

Nov 1, 2013 – largest bankrupt city in America, Detroit has seen its population drop by more than half, unemployment soar to well over double the national … of pension fund insolvency for City workers within 21 years Although the City Council instituted reforms in response, more recent news … Fortunately, a saner course is available, one in which everybody, in and out of government, regardless of political party, has a vital…

Nov 1, 2013 – Your 13th-hour ass-covering maneuver is being exposed as a political sham. … Avik Roy explains: Last week, I cited a CBS News report that detailed a disturbing trend in a handful … “When we first saw the numbers, everyone’s eyes kind of bugged out,” said Matt Salo, who runs the National Association of Medicaid…

Nov 1, 2013 – A national awakening to the crises we face in spending, especially on entitlements. … its cable news competition? … For every consumer of that noble content, there are at least ten who do not absorb political talk radio or watch the Fox News prime…

Nov 1, 2013 – news media seems to be turning on him. … This past week, the White House went to great lengths to deny what the news media was reporting and that the administration's own … But the national news media isn't buying his excuses, and neither is a majority of the voters and even Democrats who now talk openly…

Oct 31, 2013 – But the news that the President only found out about problems after the launch is the most troubling part. … He claimed to have found out about the Internal Revenue Service targeting his political opponents through the media as well. … If it’s not, we’ve been lied to for political cover. Neither option is acceptable.…

Oct 30, 2013 – As German chancellor Angele Merkel well knows, the National Security Agency focuses on electronic eavesdropping. … The National Reconnaissance Office handles imagery (think satellite photos). … This isn't news. Every national embassy on the planet is an intelligence facility.…

Oct 30, 2013 – As the National Journal piece excerpted above notes, the government made the head-scratching decision to appoint itself lead contractor … Also, the president's political team pulled a series of maneuvers that made the private contractors' jobs exceedingly difficult. … These choices were made for political reasons.…

Oct 30, 2013 – Of course, this “rats nest of concealment and lies,” as Woodward calls it, is not limited to the Administration’s national security … However, NBC News -- a once reliable Obama ally in the Mainstream Media -- notes the Administration has known for years this would … It is time to start holding Obama’s feet to the fire, and punish officials who knowingly lie to protect his ruinous political agenda…

Oct 29, 2013 – Background: Ever since the concurrent, Washington-created government shutdown and debt limit crises were resolved, the news … of people off of their current coverage, a blatant violation of one of the president's frequently-repeated promises -- which NBC News … As that clock ticks, what political options does the GOP have?…

Oct 29, 2013 – But that’s one of those political lies, you know. … CP: He said it repeatedly in a political campaign that he won, so that’s what a political lie is all about, right? … The National Journal's Ron Fornier knows.…

Oct 28, 2013 – CBS News -- which has been almost shockingly persistent in its critical coverage of the president's signature accomplishment since … Shorter CBS News: Obama lied. Shorter conservatives: We told you so. … Even if all critics had to work with were individual illustrative examples, they would still be on firm political ground.…

Oct 28, 2013 – The book is not a serious work of scholarship, as the editors of National Review Online pointed out last summer: … Zinn himself described A People’s History as “a biased account,” that bias being in favor of socialism, a political tendency that Zinn … The good news is that the superintendent and the school board must both approve the new curriculum before it’s implemented.…

Nov 16, 2013 – The news sources suggested that a likely target was the US military's Forward Operating Base Goode near Gardez City. … News sources reported no other casualties from the detonations. … It is not sound military logistics, but it is good political strategy.…

Nov 15, 2013 – As if they knew of Comrade Oswald's political leanings and his time in Moscow and Minsk, and were already trying to deflect attention … This week brought news of John Tavener's own death at 69, the end of a remarkable life -- but scarcely of his music, which will be … Why do we turn to them in moments of intimate personal grief and in shared, national mourning?…

Nov 15, 2013 – "Answer: China's decision to establish a National Security Commission is for the purpose of improving its national security system … and strategy in order to ensure national security." … This is tonight's good news.…