Law professor Elizabeth Price Foley has been guest blogging at Instapundit this past week, introducing a pretty interesting running feature on just what exactly is in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (aka “ObamaCare”): NOW THAT IT’S PASSED, NANCY, I FOUND OUT WHAT’S IN IT: Remember former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s comment about…
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Which modern U.S. President is responsible for racking up the most national debt the fastest? That’s not as easy a question to answer as you might think, mainly because to be fair, you have to take inflation into account and also because the difference between Presidents for how long they were in office. And…
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Last November students at the University of California at Davis held a peaceful demonstration to protest tuition increases. Campus cops pepper-sprayed them, which drew international attention. So should the recent “settlement,” of a federal lawsuit as an example of government waste and hypocrisy. As the Sacramento Bee reported, in the $1 million settlement, the…
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Americans have become dependent on publicly provided “free lunches,” government programs without the taxes. The public whines about any attempt to raise taxes (other than those on the “rich”) while clamoring for all the entitlement programs the government can dish out. As a result of this whine and dining, nearly half of all households…
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The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) recently defaulted on a $5.6 billion mandate to pre-fund retiree health benefits, the second time in two months the federal government postal “service,” has failed to deliver. In August it failed to make a $5.5 billion retirement prepayment slated for last September, which Congress conveniently deferred. So the USPS…
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Do you remember when pushing medical providers to go away from paper-based record keeping in favor of electronic records offered the promise of reducing the cost of health care? Here’s what USA Today reported just over two years ago, on July 14, 2010: WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration on Tuesday rolled out an…
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The federal government, more than $16 trillion in debt, saw fit to send the space shuttle Endeavour on a final joyride before it lands in a museum. Riding a Boeing 747, the shuttle’s farewell tour of California included two aerial laps around the state capitol in Sacramento. Fans were snapping pictures of a publicity…
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Now that the U.S. Census has released its newest estimate of median household income in the United States, it’s time to consider where the U.S. federal government spending per U.S. household stands with respect to the Zero Deficit Line, which is the amount of spending that the typical American household can actually afford. The…
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Susie Goldring, a “management analyst” with the Environmental Protection Agency, recently decided her co-workers needed catch-up on Hispanic culture. So she put together a fact sheet and tacked on a photo of a Che Guevara mural and his slogan, “Hasta la victoria siempre.” When the Che hit the fan, Goldring said she had no…
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How much economic growth does the U.S. get for every new dollar it borrows? That’s an important question to answer and really, it all comes down to what’s called the multiplier, which can be described as the value of extra economic activity that is generated for every new dollar that is spent, with a…
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