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February 10, 2015

Calling Sen. Coburn: Wish He Could Still Expose Obama's Latest NIH Funding Ploy

President Obama wants to throw more money at the National Institutes of Health, as part of the liberal vision that government is better and cheaper at research. But taxpayers shouldn't give more money to an agency that wastes billions of dollars on questionable, and even ludicrous, research.  

February 3, 2015

Markets Don't Fail, Government Policies Do

Lot's of liberals, the media and even some economists like to talk about "market failure" as a justification for their expansive government policies. But markets don't fail.  What does fail are government policies that try to "fix" markets.

January 27, 2015

Trying to Understand the Declining Labor Force Participation Rate

It's tempting to blame President Obama and his economic policies for the unprecedented decline in the labor force participation rate.  And while those policies may have exacerbated the trend, the decline has been occurring for years.

January 20, 2015

The Needed Education Agenda: Schooling Obama in Tax Principles

President Obama is right, education needs to get better. Specifically, his education on basic economic principles needs to be vastly improved.

January 13, 2015

The Most Ridiculous Obamacare Claim Yet: It Spurs Innovation

Economist Laura Tyson says the real legacy of Obamacare will be innovation. And it's true that the health care industry has had to be very innovative under Obamacare, trying to survive the legislation's punitive restrictions and limitations.

January 6, 2015

The Duplicity of Employers Who Support Minimum Wage Increases

When the CEO of Starbucks backs a minimum wage increase you have to ask yourself whether it's because he's compassionate (with other employers' money) or he's just looking to stifle competition from lower-cost competitors. 

December 16, 2014

Will Any Medicaid Patient Be Able to See a Doctor in January?

Democrats and the poor are quickly learning that access to health insurance (Medicaid) isn't the same as access to health care.

December 9, 2014

When the Only Person Left to See You Is a Nurse

New data confirm that it will be harder for patients to see their doctors in the future. As a result, physician assistants and nurse practitioners will increasingly fill in the gap between increasing patient demand to see a health care provider amidst a shrinking supply of doctors.

December 2, 2014

Minimum Wage Increase Is Another Form of Income Redistribution

Welfare programs are not the only way President Obama seeks to redistribute income. Raising the minimum wage is also an income redistribution scheme, from employers to workers, without having to pass through the government.

November 18, 2014

What Obama Won't Tell You About U.S. Carbon Emissions

President Obama likes to trash the U.S. as a top polluter, but by some measurements the U.S., as the world's economic engine, does very well.

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