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As Congress rushes to pass an omnibus tax/spending bill for the coming year, it’s concocting a special tax break for health-insurance companies. And it amounts to a back-door bailout. Until this week, insurance-company lobbyists and their allies in the White House were pushing for an outright bailout, spending taxpayer dollars to cover what insurers are

  Today the US Supreme Court hears a constitutional challenge to racial preferences in college admissions. These preferences obviously hurt whites and Asians turned down to make room for less qualified minorities, but ironically, the preferences also harm many Hispanics and African-Americans — the very students they’re supposed to help. No wonder campuses are roiled

  If you’re at risk of prostate cancer — in other words, if you’re male — the best place to be is the United States, where survival rates are highest in the world. But not for long, if the Obama administration gets its way in curtailing a test that flags prostate cancer before it spreads.

  How dare the Obama administration bail out insurance companies with our money in order to hide ObamaCare’s failures. Thursday, just hours after giant insurer UnitedHealthcare said it’s losing money selling ObamaCare plans and will likely exit the health exchanges next year, the Obama administration quietly promised to bail out insurers for their losses —

  At least one of the bombers in Friday’s Paris terrorist attack snuck into France posing as a Syrian refugee. ISIS is infiltrating refugee camps to penetrate Europe and the United States. But on Monday, President Obama dismissed the danger, doubling down on his plans to settle at least 10,000 Syrian refugees here. The White

  What’s the best place to get a no-show job? The federal government. Uncle Sam pays corrupt or incompetent employees not to come to work — because it’s easier than firing them. Never mind the cost to taxpayers. Congress is trying to get to the bottom of this outrageous waste. But so far, true to

On the campaign trail, Hillary Clinton begins with her own family’s past — her factory-worker grandfather and her father’s rise to become a small-business owner. In New Hampshire last week, she vowed to rebuild the “ladders of opportunity” that she claims have disappeared. It’s rousing political rhetoric. Problem is, it’s not true. Contrary to conventional

A whopping 20 percent of Republican primary voters are military veterans. No wonder GOP presidential candidates are making the scandal-plagued Veterans Affairs Department a campaign issue. And the man frequently tagged as lacking substance — Donald Trump — just came out with the best reform plan so far. Under Trump’s plan, vets of all ages

  Hillary Rodham Clinton says the furor over sick vets waiting for health care is overblown and “not as widespread as it has been made out to be.” Last Friday, Clinton accused Republicans of concocting complaints against the Veterans Affairs Department as part of an ideological war against big government. Wrong. One hundred thirty-eight nonpartisan

ObamaCare is heading toward a death spiral. The Obama administration is having trouble selling insurance plans to healthy people. That’s a big problem: When the young and healthy don’t enroll, premiums have to be hiked to cover the costs of older, sicker people, discouraging even more young people from signing up. Last Thursday, the administration