PolicyBytes

The rollout of Obamacare had a lot in common with the "rollout" of Barack Obama's presidency. Both encouraged high expectations, promised impressive deliverables, and tried to reinstill faith in big government. And both utterly failed.

Voter turnout will likely be low in this mid-term election; only a little more than a third of voters will take the time and effort to vote. But it will have nothing to do with voter ID laws or voter suppression and everything to do with apathy.

The IRS has gone rogue, threatening Americans' constitutional liberties. But don't blame the IRS alone; it and many other agencies are only following the lawless disregard for the Constitution and Bill of Rights provided by "President Pen-and-a-Phone."

TransCanada, the Canadian company behind the Keystone XL pipeline, was just recognized for its pro-environment efforts; so what's President Obama's excuse for not approving it now?

Environmentalists and other liberal groups are attacking good corporate citizens in an effort to get those companies to embrace their agenda. If the companies cave in to those tactics, that only emboldens the groups to go after even more.

The public and the media should be demanding that Obama reveal how he plans to pay for the war on ISIS.

Two long-time defenders of Canada's government-run health care system become its latest victims.

The Berlin Wall was not built to keep invaders out but to keep an oppressed people in. Obama's efforts to stop tax inversions is his Berlin Wall to keep keep corporations oppressed by high taxes from escaping to freedom.

Low-wage jobs in a free market are not a bad thing, they are necessary to allowing unskilled workers to get a job.

Reports say some conservatives want to pit low-income workers against immigrants by saying the later take U.S. jobs.  A better political strategy is to outline a pro-growth economic agenda that creates jobs for all workers.