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The Internet has thrived as a place of freedom, where the long hand of government regulation and taxes have been kept to a minimum. The Marketplace Fairness Act seeks to end that era—and with it your ability to get most of your Cyber Monday purchases tax free.

Aaccording to the Institute for Policy Innovation, about $17 billion and 70,000 jobs are lost every year due to piracy, which is definitely a factor causing our poor economy.

Like so many of the administration’s reforms, this one is imposed by executive fiat rather than approved by Congress—and the incoming Republican Congress should try to roll it back.

Illinois and Pennsylvania were the two case studies the IPI used to illustrate Medicaid reform.

It was completely predictable. In fact, health actuary Mark Litow and I predicted it in the Wall Street Journal last year. But now it’s hitting the pocketbook.

The administration has repeatedly misled, fudged, concealed and even lied to the public about Obamacare. 

Texas Senator Ted Cruz has recommended two good options for the Senate.

A pair of Burns Town Board members opposed to a potential fracking ban have sent The Evening Tribune Merrill Matthews' article from the Aug. 1, 2014 edition of The Wall Street Journal saying, “The Fifth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution says, in part, that private property cannot be taken for public use ‘without just compensation.' Government regulations that substantially reduce the value of an owner’s property may also constitute a taking.

States are struggling with the explosive growth and cost of Medicaid, and those states that have accepted Obamacare’s Medicaid expansion will especially struggle when Washington stops covering the full cost in a few years. But a new publication discusses how Illinois and Pennsylvania have found ways to significantly curb Medicaid spending by redetermining enrollees’ eligibility, and other states should take note.

And the real tragedy behind Obama’s plan is that it will likely undermine comprehensive immigration reform, which the country desperately needs.