By: John Whitesides & Mike Stone – reuters.com – July 16, 2019 Democratic presidential front-runner Joe Biden unveiled a $750 billion healthcare plan on Monday that he said would strengthen the Affordable Care Act, drawing a contrast with rivals who back a more sweeping “Medicare for All” government-run system. Democratic 2020 U.S. presidential candidate and former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks at...

By: Rachel Greszler – dailysignal.com – July 11, 2019 Just in time for next week’s likely House vote on a federal $15 minimum wage, the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office has come out with a caustic report on the consequences of the policy. The report confirms what even liberal economists caution: A $15 minimum wage would “risk undesirable and unintended consequences” and lead to...

By: Staff – newsmax.com – July 15, 2019 The head of Immigration and Customs Enforcement said efforts to deport families with orders to leave the country will continue after an upcoming national sweep that President Donald Trump said would start Sunday. But just after noon on Sunday, there were few reports or signs that the raids were being conducted. Immigration attorneys and...

By: Peter Hasson – dailysignal.com – July 02, 2019 Members of the violent left-wing movement Antifa have repeatedly harassed and attacked members of the media who cover them. Masked individuals at an Antifa rally Saturday violently attacked Portland journalist Andy Ngo, sending him to the hospital. While some members of the national media have been sympathetic toward Antifa in the past, that hasn’t kept Antifa members from...

By: Merrill Matthews – ipi.org – June 25, 2019 The Trump administration wants to increase price transparency in health care—just like every other sector of the economy. No disagreement from us. But the first question is why real prices aren’t already readily available to health care consumers—just like every other sector of the economy? Actually, they are—for health care products and...

By: Rachel Frazin – thehill.com – June 16, 2019 Former Vice President Joe Biden on Sunday called for equal pay for the U.S. women’s national soccer team. “Good luck to the @USWNT as they take on Chile!” Biden, who is currently running for president, tweeted Sunday. “As we cheer them on in the World Cup, we must support their fight off...

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – June 14, 2019 The real felt urgency of climate change will not, anytime soon, match the rhetoric of the advocates. The more the climate debate changes, the more it stays the same. Polls show that the public is worried about climate change, but that doesn’t mean that it is any more ready to bear any burden...

by Merrill Matthews & H. Sterling Burnett – ipi.org – June 10, 2019 Climate models’ projections are notoriously inaccurate and often contradictory. In an effort to improve the science used by regulatory agencies, the Trump administration has made, and is still making, adjustments in the way the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and other agencies approach climate change and make the predictions that drive climate policies....

By: Myron Magnet – wsj.com – May 22, 2019 Justice Stephen Breyer lamented last week that the Supreme Court had overturned “a well-reasoned decision that has caused no serious practical problems in the four decades since we decided it.” Dissenting from Justice Clarence Thomas’s majority decision in Franchise Tax Board v. Hyatt, Justice Breyer added: “Today’s decision can only cause one to wonder...

The House passed The Equality Act which specifically overrides the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, removing legal protection for Christians who want to exercise their right of conscience.