Op/Ed

The rent seekers have come running.

Since the tragic outbreak of the Ebola virus, critics of drug companies have changed their tune. 

What can be done about a federal agency that has become despised, politicized and marginalized?

A July Quinnipiac poll asked the public who has been the worst president since 1945. The big winner was President Barack Obama, with 33 percent. It’s easy to see why if we compare him to some of the other men who often make the worst-presidents list.

President Obama’s complete inability to pass liberal legislation that actually works—or now to pass any legislation at all—has driven him to rely on the honor system in the hope that people will do the right thing in several policy arenas.

Multiple factors, both health care-related and political, are affecting premium increases. Some of those variables are pushing premiums up and others down.

The United States recently passed Russia and Saudi Arabia to become the world’s top energy producer. But our nation’s infrastructure for transporting, storing and delivering energy hasn’t kept up with production.

While the media’s November election focus is almost entirely on the U.S. Senate, Democrats will likely take their biggest electoral thumping in the states, especially in the gubernatorial races.

For decades, the primary energy producers have been countries that do not share the major democracies' values. And yet the democracies' economies are dependent on those producers. New drilling techniques have made it possible to reduce or eliminate that stranglehold.

Several have criticized President Obama for being disengaged while the world burns. But why complain? When he returns to Washington they will criticize him for getting it all wrong.