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“Really, we should be afraid of this court,” said House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi in response to the U.S. Supreme Court’s June 30 Hobby Lobby ruling. Afraid of Hobby Lobby? Nonsense. Democratic politicians are lying about the Court’s ruling, scaremongering and trying to whip up a war over reproductive rights before the fall election. Here

On July 3, with Americans preparing to celebrate freedom, the Obama administration reduced freedom by adding 1,296 pages of new regulations to ObamaCare. It was a classic pre-holiday document dump, publishing the mind-numbing rules in the Federal Register on the eve of Independence Day, when few were likely to be watching. So much for transparency. ObamaCare

The United States Supreme Court ruled 5-4 in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores Inc. that if you like your God, you can keep your God, even if you run a business. The Obama administration tried to require that health plans provided at work cover contraception and morning-after pills, no matter what an employer’s religious convictions. The Green

This month’s congressional hearing on outlandish bonuses at the Veterans Administration is the latest proof that the nation needs to overhaul how federal workers in every department are paid and promoted. They’re on the gravy train, and taxpayers are being taken for a ride. Back in 1883, Congress passed the Pendleton Act to replace patronage

Congressional testimony on outlandish bonuses at the Department of Veterans Affairs is the latest proof that the nation needs to overhaul how federal workers in every department are paid and promoted. They’re on the gravy train, and taxpayers are being taken for a ride. Back in 1883, Congress passed the Pendleton Act to replace patronage

Since the Congressional Budget Office pinned a whopping $35 billion to $50 billion annual price tag on the VA “reform” bill pushed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and John McCain, the legislation looks dead. Don’t shed any tears. There’s a better way to solve the VA backlog without fattening its already exploding budget: Focus on the

Monday, the Commonwealth Fund released a report claiming the U.S. has the worst health-care system in the developed world, and Great Britain has the best. But a closer look reveals serious problems with the report’s methodology: The criteria seem deliberately designed to elevate socialized health care while ignoring the strengths of the U.S. system — in particular

Congress is rushing to pass a compromise drafted by  Sens. John McCain (R-AZ.) and Bernie Sanders (I-VT) that claims to rescue vets from deadly wait lists.   House and Senate leaders are conferring on a final version, congratulating themselves for bipartisanship.  But in truth,  the bill won’t speed up health care for vets. The fine print

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) are rushing to pass a bill they claim will rescue vets from deadly wait lists. But behind the kudos for bipartisanship, the truth lurks. This bill won’t speed up health care for ailing vets. The fine print sabotages vets wanting to go outside the Veterans Administration system.

In the past week, Governors Haley of South Carolina and Fallin of Oklahoma evicted Common Core from public schools, even at the risk of losing hundreds of millions of federal dollars promised to states adopting it. Mmes. Haley and Fallin initially supported Common Core. But public outrage is forcing them to reverse course, and more