Is fast food so vital to the nation that taxpayers should spend $7 billion a year to supplement the industry’s profits? Imagine the outcry if that was proposed.
And yet ...
Maybe they want to appear decisive after some bipartisan poor performances. Perhaps they want to distract a disgusted electorate by exclaiming, “Look! Over there!”
Whate...
WASHINGTON — Is the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) a job killer? Along with the fate of HealthCare.gov, this question stalks the ACA.
Critics — including me — say “yes....
If the Gravina Island Bridge in Alaska is the “bridge to nowhere” — a symbol of wasteful government spending on an unneeded project — the Pentagon equivalent is the Medi...
In July 2007, presidential candidate Barack Obama declared that the United States needed a foreign policy that reclaimed the moral high ground, saying: “This is our mome...
One of these weeks, now that the Obama administration has recruited a SWAT team of computer whizzes, Healthcare.gov will recover from its shambolic debut and turn into, ...
The rollout of the Affordable Care Act this month should have been a moment of singular triumph for President Obama and Democrats in Congress. Instead, the administratio...
Everyone knows the catch-phrase from the movie “Love Story”: Love means never having to say you’re sorry. Apparently, doctors in Pennsylvania have a similar saying: A me...
It looks like just about everything about the U.S. Department of Veterans Afrairs’ proposed new medical center is a mess.
Because a senior executive who had worked for t...
So far this year, more than 300 people have gotten sick from bacteria called Salmonella heidelberg. Almost three-fourths of them live in California.
The Centers for Dise...