June 26, 2015

When 'Reasonable Accommodation' Isn't

According to FBI statistics, 76 police officers were killed and 49,851 were the victims of line-of-duty assaults in 2013.  In addition to the danger that comes with the job, the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) adds another la...

June 13, 2015

<em>King v. Burwell</em> -- More than Tax Credits

As the Obama administration nervously waits for a Supreme Court decision in King v. Burwell, there is another aspect to the case that has nothing to do with ObamaCare or tax subsidies. King v. Burwell tells the story of a president who overstepp...

June 9, 2015

Iran and the Dynamic of the Unpleasant Fact

As the P5+1 continues negotiations over Iran’s nuclear program, it is no secret that the White House wants a deal. During last week’s Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing, Senator Bob Corker complained that despite requests to the S...

May 27, 2015

How Hillary Politicized Benghazi

The 848 emails that were released last week are a small fraction of Hillary Clinton’s emails, but they are sufficient to paint a troubling picture of what Clinton knew about Benghazi, when she knew it, and how she politicized the tragedy. The e...

June 3, 2014

ObamaCare's Blank Check Bailout

In 2013 only a handful of regional health insurance companies, most notably Universal Health Care Group, Inc. in Florida, filed for bankruptcy protection. The National Association of Insurance Commissioners reports the largest 125 health insurers col...

May 18, 2014

Walking the Healthcare Insurance Tightrope

This month’s Harpers Index reports that 2,629 inmates in a Chicago county jail were successfully enrolled in Medicaid because of provisions contained in ObamaCare. Compared to the thousands of Americans who are scrambling to find affordable hea...

March 31, 2014

Covered California Confusion

Since its debut last October, Covered California, the state’s online health insurance exchange, has been plagued by software glitches and other problems that have routinely shut the website down, sometimes for days at a time.  As of March ...

December 24, 2013

ObamaCare was Unnecessary

It's worth remembering that ObamaCare's original objective was to provide affordable healthcare insurance coverage for everyone. Yet even before key provisions of the law go into effect on January 1, that goal is already an afterthought. Many people ...

November 27, 2013

The Hindenburg of Health Care

Amid the furor surrounding the disastrous performance of healthcare.gov, no mention has been made about the website's original purpose.  In fact, it was never intended to be a gateway where people apply for health care insurance; rather, he...