Op/Ed

Both Social Security and Medicare have trust funds, but the Social Security Trust Fund is telling a bigger lie than Medicare's.

ObamaCare's health insurance rebate was supposed to arrive in mailboxes about now, buying voter support for the legislation. So far, it has mostly bought confusion.

In a normal election year, Texas Lieutenant Governor David Dewhurst would have coasted to a Republican senatorial nomination victory.  But this is not a normal election year, and Texans are sending Washington a warning.

President Obama is taking a new message to the African American and Hispanic populations: ObamaCare means these communities  “will finally know the security of affordable care.”  If only it were true.

The transition to biofuels needs to be led by science and economically viable alternatives.  Instead, it is being led by a political agenda that believes that pumping grass, rather than gas, is good for the planet — no matter how much it hurts people and their pocketbooks.

Texans who want to increase their opportunities could have that chance this summer when Russia officially joins the World Trade Organization. But unless Congress acts quickly, the United States, and especially Texas, will miss out.

The political war against “off-shoring” — which is what the critics usually mean when they use the term “outsourcing” — is raging this election year. But there is an important reason why many U.S. companies open stores, build factories and hire people overseas: That’s where the sales are.

The most underreported recent environmental story has been the dramatic decline in energy-related carbon emissions — nearly back to mid-1990s levels, and falling.

What dissenting governors—as well as many others—want is more flexibility to address the problems of the uninsured in creative ways.

Matthews writes in the Wall Street Journal that ObamaCare's alleged benefits are overrated, and by 2014 the bureaucratic mess may be impossible to untangle.