Poverty
California
Total Victory For The Children
In a scathing opinion, Los Angeles trial judge Rolf Treu ruled that Californias laws governing teacher tenure, teacher layoffs and teacher dismissals were unconstitutional. Judge Treu said that the evidence presented in the case of Vergara vs. California was not only compelling, but shocked the conscience. Most shocking of all, ...
Business & Economics
California’s High-Tax, Big-Government Comedown
Anyone who has ever watched Animal Planet should be familiar with migrations. Geese do it, wildebeests and whales do it, turtles do it and, yes, people do it too. To migrate is a natural phenomenon. What’s interesting about most migrations is their purposes are generally positive: sex, food, sun and ...
Commentary
Health Costs Resume Their Rise
Americas health cost crisis is no longer in remission. Last week, the U.S. Commerce Departments Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that healthcare spending had risen 9.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014 the largest quarterly increase in more than 30 years. The BEAs estimate comes on the ...
California
Teachers Union Cheers Victory Over Poor Latino Childern
During a 1954 congressional hearing, U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch famously asked Senator Joseph McCarthy, Have you no sense of decency? The same question may be asked of the California Federation of Teachers (CFT), which featured a splashy cover photo and story on its February/March magazine that celebrated the defeat ...
Commentary
ACA’s unaffordable consequences
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent the equivalent of ...
Commentary
Not working just won’t work
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent the equivalent of 2.5 ...
Commentary
Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what youd do differently, he said. Lets see if the numbers add up. ...
Commentary
It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem
The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So theyve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
Commentary
Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing
President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law arent working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
Commentary
Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives
A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregons Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, its likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
Total Victory For The Children
In a scathing opinion, Los Angeles trial judge Rolf Treu ruled that Californias laws governing teacher tenure, teacher layoffs and teacher dismissals were unconstitutional. Judge Treu said that the evidence presented in the case of Vergara vs. California was not only compelling, but shocked the conscience. Most shocking of all, ...
California’s High-Tax, Big-Government Comedown
Anyone who has ever watched Animal Planet should be familiar with migrations. Geese do it, wildebeests and whales do it, turtles do it and, yes, people do it too. To migrate is a natural phenomenon. What’s interesting about most migrations is their purposes are generally positive: sex, food, sun and ...
Health Costs Resume Their Rise
Americas health cost crisis is no longer in remission. Last week, the U.S. Commerce Departments Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) announced that healthcare spending had risen 9.9 percent in the first quarter of 2014 the largest quarterly increase in more than 30 years. The BEAs estimate comes on the ...
Teachers Union Cheers Victory Over Poor Latino Childern
During a 1954 congressional hearing, U.S. Army counsel Joseph Welch famously asked Senator Joseph McCarthy, Have you no sense of decency? The same question may be asked of the California Federation of Teachers (CFT), which featured a splashy cover photo and story on its February/March magazine that celebrated the defeat ...
ACA’s unaffordable consequences
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a Congressional Budget Office report released last month, the president’s health care law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 to 2 percent the equivalent of ...
Not working just won’t work
Congress’s bean-counters have rendered their verdict on Obamacare’s economic impact and it’s not good for the president. According to a new Congressional Budget Office (CBO) report, the president’s healthcare law will reduce the number of hours Americans work by 1.5 percent to 2 percent the equivalent of 2.5 ...
Senate GOP Health Reform Plan Has Room For Improvement — But Still Better Than Obamacare
In his recent State of the Union address, President Obama threw down a gauntlet for Republicans opposed to his health reform law. If you have specific plans to cut costs, cover more people, increase choice, tell America what youd do differently, he said. Lets see if the numbers add up. ...
It’s Not Just Healthcare.gov: Obamacare Has A Serious Age Discrimination Problem
The Obama Administration is desperate to get young people to sign up for health insurance under the federal healthcare reform law. So theyve enlisted a team of almost universally trusted spokespeople to lobby the youth of America their mothers. One ad from the Obama-allied group Organizing for Action encourages ...
Obamacare Is In Serious Trouble, And Obama’s Subsidies Are Worth Refusing
President Obama and his signature legislative accomplishment Obamacare are in deep trouble. The health insurance exchanges established by the law arent working properly; it now appears that the federally operated HealthCare.gov will not be fixed by November 30, as the president promised. Millions of Americans are irate that ...
Move to save Medicaid money endangers lives
A particularly brutal kind of medical rationing is coming to Oregon. As of Oct. 1, Oregons Medicaid program stopped covering major medical interventions for patients assessed as having two years or less to live. Not only is the move immoral, its likely illegal. This coverage restriction comes courtesy of the ...
