Op/Ed

In his State of the Union address, the president challenged Congress to pass legislation that “gives every worker in America the opportunity to earn seven days of paid sick leave.” And that’s on top of forcing employers to provide health insurance and pushing for a 40 percent increase in the minimum wage.

Adding in President Obama’s costly new entitlement programs outlined in his State of the Union address could put a back-of-the-envelope estimate of about 180 million Americans on the government dole.

We are stuck, for two more years, with a president who thinks government can do it better—whatever it is. Ironically, he’s been trying to prove that point for six years and has nothing to show for it.

Apparently convinced that practice makes perfect, Mitt Romney is seriously considering a third presidential bid.

President Obama’s threatened veto of legislation defining full-time work as 40 hours a week instead of 30 hours reneges on another of his many Obamacare promises.

Even as we honor our soldiers for the job they do, conservatives should bring the same concern about government waste, inefficiency and overreach to the military that we do to every other government agency.

If you thought it was getting increasingly difficult for Medicare and Medicaid patients to see a doctor, you’re right—and that problem may get even worse in 2015.

President Obama has boasted that under his administration, the federal deficit is down, unemployment has declined significantly and consumers are better off. The irony is that GOP policies deserve most of the credit for those improvements—policies Obama both fought and denounced.

Chalk up one more failure for a single-payer health care system that actually works. The latest casualty: Vermont.

Embracing Cuba and its people is not endorsing the Castros and their five-decade reign of death and repression. It’s just a good first step on a long road to a freer and prosperous Cuba.