In The News

The need for patent reform is not a new issue, but a recent ruling provides a perfect example of all that is wrong with our current system. 

The governors of 31 states, including Texas Gov. Greg Abbott, say they won’t take Syrian refugees. Merrill Matthews lays the blame for the refugee stalemate with the White House, not the nation’s governors; they have legitimate safety concerns, he wrote.

For the Loyola community, illegal downloading is a problem among students and faculty alike. About $12.5 billion is lost in the U.S. economy each year because of music piracy, according to a study by the Institute for Policy Innovation. 

Before Obama sets a narrative that the U.S. is xenophobic, the public might benefit from a few facts on immigration.

The insurer UnitedHealthcare has recently announced that it would consider moving away from the Affordable Care Act’s health insurance exchanges due to significant profit losses. If there are significant losses and little financial gains, more payers may consider leaving the health insurance exchanges as well.

President Barack Obama is once again faced with a problem of his own creation. After all, when you sow disgust you reap mistrust.

The irony here is that Obama came into office promising to restore the trust in big government.

What would the federal government do if there were a stampede to the exchange exit door? Depends on who’s pulling the levers in Washington.

Beware of politicians looking for a legacy—especially when they try to buy it with your tax dollars. President Obama will soon head to Paris for a climate change confab, where he hopes to get a standing ovation for leading the fight against fossil fuels.

When the Pilgrims landed at Plymouth, they tried to infuse socialism onto a capitalist model—or what we might call the Bernie Sanders economic plan. After just a few years of Bernie-nomics, the colonists—those who survived, anyway—recognized their mistake and changed course.