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PETER MORICI: Obamacare kept afloat by government subsidies The wheels are coming off Obamacare. Insurance premiums and the burden on the federal budget are spinning out of control. For Democrats, the answer is simple – raise taxes on the wealthy to further subsidize an...

CLIFFORD MAY: How Ben Rhodes helped Obama betray America Among the most serious charges that President Obama and his supporters have leveled against President George W. Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney: They “cherry-picked intelligence.” The phrase suggests that,...

Why the Washington GOP establishment loves Hillary Clinton Steve Schmidt, the GOP strategist who ran Sen. John McCain’s 2008 presidential campaign, predicted last week, after businessman Donald Trump became the GOP’s presumptive presidential nominee, a...

WESLEY PRUDEN: One last attempt to derail Donald Trump If wishes were horses, beggars would ride to town on Saturday night, and if early polls determined presidents John McCain and Ross Perot would be playing poker with Harry Truman and Chester Alan Arthur in the ex-presidents...

Conservatives embrace pro-gun Harriet Tubman on the $20 bill When Harriet Tubman replaces Andrew Jackson on the $20 bill, will she be depicted carrying a gun? That’s what conservatives hailing the decision want to know, pointing to the Republican abolitionist’s use of...

MADISON GESIOTTO: Wait, what did Hillary Clinton just say? Once again, Hillary Clinton has been busy pandering her days away in hopes of becoming the next leader of the free world. However, her attempts backfired on her after she recently crossed the line, awkwardly using a black...

CLIFFORD MAY: Michael Hayden’s memoir After a long and extraordinary career, Gen. Michael Hayden has written “Playing to the Edge: American Intelligence in the Age of Terror.” Both a memoir and a primer on modern espionage, it also attempts to correct the...

THOMAS V. DIBACCO: A linear history of Form 1040 For the legions of procrastinators who have yet to file their 1040 Forms, the hours to come before April 18 may be the most taxing of the year. It wasn’t always that way, however. The annual squeeze on our purses is only a...

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Is NATO worth preserving? Donald Trump recently ignited another controversy when he mused that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization was obsolete. He hinted that it might no longer be worth the huge American investment. In typical Trump style, he hit a...

Hillary Clinton misleads with Vermont gun claim; even supporters say it’s inaccurate In an attempt to score political points against Sen. Bernard Sanders, Hillary Clinton now says that the senator’s home state of Vermont is a key culprit in New York gun crime –...