Op/Ed

Did President Obama somehow become the most pro-energy president in decades?  You could be forgiven if that was your take-away from his comments on energy policy in his State of the Union speech. But applying the Truth-o-Meter to several of his claims reveals a very different administration than the one on display during Obama’s speech.

President Obama can rightfully be accused of many things -- but not a rigid adherence to consistency. As he inaccurately rails against the oil and natural gas industry's "unfair" tax breaks, he's doling out billions to that industry's competitors.

Millions of Americans will soon discover that health coverage was never so expensive as when Obama decided to make it affordable.

In the midst of one of the worst economic downturns in history, the Internet economy is one of the few areas where investment in research, infrastructure, and facilities, and consumer spending on products and services, continues at a strong pace.

Health care is entering the telecommunications age, and that development has significant ramifications for the access, cost and quality of health care. States have not been involved yet, but they soon will be.

If Republicans want to recapture the public’s support and trust, they will have to do it with bold new ideas that actually address the country’s problems.  The GOP used to be an ideas machine; maybe with a little kick start it can be again.

IPI's Dr. Merrill Matthews exposes how Democrats are doubling the tax obligation in the new Medicare tax: The wealthy may be paying the new rate of 3.8% now, but everyone else will also be paying some portion of it later.

Thanks to mandates that take effect in 2014, premiums in individual markets will shoot up. Some may double.

As if the fiscal cliff, debt ceiling, higher taxes and a potential recession weren’t enough to scare employers, the Obama administration has just handed them one more headache: an IRS warning that any efforts to avoid the ObamaCare mandate to provide coverage or pay a penalty will not go unpunished.

Switching to a pre-funded system similar to the Alternate Plan, even if it is only for new workers entering the system, means a day will come when we won't be adding even more unfunded liabilities or robbing from those who have paid in their entire working lives.