In 1999, it cost about $5,800 to buy employer-provided family health insurance coverage. If premiums had increased at the same rate as inflation, that same policy today ...
Watching the ACORN encounters play out on YouTube, it's hard to shake the feeling that you're watching a Second City send-up. A young man and woman, costumed caricatures...
WASHINGTON — Charges of racism these past several days, from op-ed pages to Jimmy Carter's interpretation of Rep. Joe Wilson's "You lie!" outburst, are proving . . . com...
President Obama warned investment bankers Monday that if they engage in "reckless behavior and unchecked excess" again, the Treasury will not "be there to break their fa...
WASHINGTON — You lie? No. Barack Obama doesn't lie. He's too subtle for that. He . . . well, you judge.
Herewith three examples within a single speech — the now-famous O...
WASHINGTON — Not so long ago, Rep. Joe Wilson's verbal assault on the president — "You lie!" — might have produced a much different outcome.
Instead of the U.S. House r...
I doubt that Rep. Joe Wilson, R-S.C., would have disgraced himself by shouting at Ronald Reagan as he did during Barack Obama's address last Wednesday night. And yet, hi...
President Obama sold single-payer health care short in his speech to Congress. It's actually the only sensible solution to our health care crisis.
Obama said that a sing...
In his address to Congress on Wednesday night, President Barack Obama struck a bipartisan note, praising individual Republicans for their past work on health care and pr...
President Barack Obama's address to Congress and the nation was clear, simple and direct. He succeeded Wednesday night in promoting a strong package of needed health car...