The healthcare fight in Washington is not about access to doctors and hospitals, or the cost of those services. It is an effort by the left to create more dependency on government. George Will examines this theme in a Washington Post column: Killing this small program, which currently benefits 1,300 mostly poor and minority children, is […]

Prime Minister Gordon Brown has done a terrible job and is widely unpopular.. But even if the opposition party wins control later this year, it may not make much of a difference. The leader of the Tory party, David Cameron, is a British version of a RINO. He has not pledged to reduce the burden […]

Mark Steyn has a typically witty column that covers everything from the infamous Audi Superbowl commercial to the kid who was stopped by TSA for having Arabic-language flash cards. But he closes his piece with this powerful statement: …the difference between America and Europe is that, when the global economy nosedived, everywhere from Iceland to […]

A story from the U.K.’s Daily Mail shocked me for two reasons. First, a supermarket has announced that it won’t offer valuable savings on infant formula because it violates European law. Apparently, there are lots of bored bureaucrats in Brussels who apparently have nothing better to do than concoct such inane policies. That was bad enough, […]

Saw this linked on Instapundit. It’s poetic justice when scam artists and moochers get mocked.

The bureaucrats at the TSA must be trying to surpass their colleagues at various motor vehicles departments in the race for bone-headed and inane bureaucracy. Here’s a story from Philadelphia about abusive treatment of a 4-year old kid with leg braces. Even though I think it’s ridiculous, I can understand the rule about not allowing metal […]

Saw something very interesting on the National Review blog. We finally have some good news in the battle between government workers and the serfs who support them (i.e., taxpayers). A Rhode Island town, frustrated by the intransigence of the teacher union, decided to fire the entire staff of the local high school. The union was […]

Even though the American people don’t want government-run healthcare, and even though Democrats are very nervous after losing a supposedly-safe Senate seat in Massachusetts, Obamacare is not dead. The Democrats still have huge majorities in the House and Senate and the White House clearly is trying to put the GOP back on the defensive. Exhibit […]

The Union Leader newspaper in New Hampshire has a correct view of the absurd $130 million “census awareness budget,” including the reprehensible decision to squander $2.5 million on an ad during the Super Bowl. It’s bad enough that the Census has evolved into an exercise in nanny-state intrusion, rather than the simple head-counting exercise as […]

According to a new article from the Mackinac Center, Michigan has below-average income compared to other states. But even though it is in 37th place for per-capita income, the politicians in the state are currying favor with union bosses by paying the 8th-highest teacher salaries: The president of the Michigan Education Association stated on the […]