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If President Obama is reelected and gets his way, the country will enter the "Obama recession" of 2013, just like FDR in 1937.

It comes as no surprise that CBO officials now estimate that nearly 6 million Americans - most in the middle class - will have to pay an average penalty of about $1,200 starting in 2014 for failing to obtain health insurance, a 50 percent increase than previously estimated.

While reports today indicate the Fed will spend $40 billion per month on bond purchases to boost the weak economy, with no end date set, Dr. Merrill Matthews says it’s not quantitative easing that the economy needs but regulatory easing.

One of this year's big debates is over cybersecurity legislation, and again government officials are determined to attack the problem by attacking privacy and replacing it with greater government control.

Both Democrats and Republicans are trying to use the mantra of "they're cutting Medicare" as a way to hammer the opposing party and drum up senior support. But here's the dirty little secret: Medicare spending could be cut, a lot, without doing any harm to seniors' health. 

The Pentagon is pushing ahead with a $420 million effort to build three refineries to make competitively priced biofuels.

Imposing weight limits on professional football would result in a safer, faster, more athletic and more entertaining game played by people who have not spent their lives getting unnaturally large.

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.

Institute for Policy Innovation (IPI) resident scholar Dr. Merrill Matthews lists the greatest flaws and backward incentives of the president's signature legislation, concluding: “It is the wrong policy for the dynamic and fast-paced 21st century, an albatross fit for 1960, not 2012."