Ever since Obamacare’s stormy passage in early 2010, Democrats have been waiting anxiously for the program to go into effect and hoping that a dose of reality would calm...
You know Beanie Babies, those delightful little stuffed animals that were a sensation with children and collectors in the 1990s. They made a fortune for Ty Warner, a Chi...
Even some of its strongest supporters concede that President Barack Obama's Affordable Care Act is an imperfect law, passed in an imperfect way.
“Anytime you implement s...
A vast scholarly literature exists on the subject of leadership. The characteristics of effective leaders have been pored over, cataloged and debated. Among them, one tr...
WASHINGTON — Losing a hard-fought battle confers no dishonor, but losing a badly chosen battle is embarrassing.
And then there’s ridiculous.
Into the latter category goe...
WASHINGTON — The Obamacare/shutdown battle has spawned myriad myths. The most egregious concern the substance of the fight, the identity of the perpetrators and the orig...
Last week, House Speaker John A. Boehner, R-Ohio, and his Republicans declared that they had two clear goals in this fall’s battle over federal spending: no government s...
Congress permitted a partial shutdown of the federal government on Tuesday and Wall Street shrugged. The stock market finished the day a tad higher. The furlough of 800,...
WASHINGTON — If you scan the websites of various tea party groups and their allies, you will find plenty of references to “less government,” “lower taxes,” “fiscal respo...
Americans awoke Tuesday to the fact that nearly half the federal government has shut down, and to a certainty that one-sixth of the U.S. economy will be profoundly alter...
