Bob McCarty Writes

Close to 700,000 people should expect to join the ranks of the unemployed if President Barack Obama’s so-called health care reform plan (a.k.a., “ObamaCare”) becomes law, according to a study released Wednesday by Americans for Tax Reform and the Beacon Hill Institute. If you feel vulnerable, I suggest you prepare for unemployment now by crafting [...]

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Douglas Johnson believes the health care bill that Speaker Nancy Pelosi brought to the House floor last November was extremely bad (before the House fixed it by adopting the Stupak-Pitts Amendment) — but the Senate health bill (H.R. 3590) is worse.  Furthermore, he warned in a news release today that members of the House of Representatives that [...]

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Almost three years have passed since the day a first-term junior U.S. senator from Illinois used lofty language to announce to a crowd in Springfield, Ill., that he would seek the Democratic Party nomination for president in 2008.  Though much has changed, much of what I observed about that presidential candidate still holds true about [...]

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Americans’ confidence in their health insurance coverage and ability to access health care increased slightly last month, according to the latest findings of the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Health Care Consumer Confidence Index (RWJF Index). Why did confidence rise — albeit ever so slightly?  I suspect it’s due to the fact that Americans saw Democrats [...]

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Sen. Jim Inhofe (R-Okla.) reacted to President Barack Obama’s State of the Union speech with a back-handed compliment, saying, “This guy can say things that aren’t true with greater conviction than anyone I’ve ever seen.” The conservative Republican shared his thoughts during a radio interview this morning with Joe Kelley of Tulsa radio station KRMG. [...]

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Former U.S. Senator Jim Talent (R-Mo.) told listeners to The Mark Reardon Show on St. Louis’ KMOX-AM this afternoon that he thinks leadership crises on Capitol Hill might overtake health care reform as the biggest issue in the nation’s capitol during the upcoming week.  Stay tuned!

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By Paul R. Hollrah, Guest Blogger Since the Roe v. Wade decision of the United States Supreme Court on Jan. 22, 1973, the political left, right and center of American politics has divided most distinctly around the issue of abortion.  In that decision, the Court held that a woman may abort an unwanted pregnancy, for [...]

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