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Health care’s hidden tax on Main Street

It was recently announced, and indeed celebrated, that over 8 million Americans signed up for coverage through ObamaCare. As the administration completed their victory lap, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) quickly released a promising projection that health insurance premiums would…

Veteran trainer has field favorite California Chrome in Kentucky Derby debut

For a man who’s never had a horse in the Kentucky Derby, Art Sherman, trainer of morning line favorite California Chrome, has plenty of Derby experience. He played a minor role in helping a legend win the Derby, seen the…

Race and freedom: Cliven Bundy, Donald Sterling and Freedom of Speech

Cliven Bundy should be happy for the public revelation of the private comments of fellow racist Donald Sterling; the latter has replaced the former as the person Americans most love to hate. These two bigots recently spewed racial hatred: Bundy…

Oklahoma inmate’s botched execution: I don’t want to tell my son and daughter this is the best we can do with killers

The Lord works in mysterious ways. When Clayton Lockett, a vicious killer who buried a woman alive, was executed in Oklahoma Tuesday, his tortured death exposed the sinfulness of the death penalty and the amoral reasoning of those who support…

Easter 2014: Hope for the dead

What is the connection between freedom and rising from the dead? When America was in its infancy and struggling to find a culture and frustrated at governance from Great Britain, the word most frequently uttered in speeches and pamphlets and…

A government admission of wrongdoing

Last week, National Intelligence Director Gen. James R. Clapper sent a brief letter to Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., a member of the Senate Intelligence Committee, in which he admitted that agents of the National Security Agency (NSA) have been reading…

Soviet-born congressional candidate looks to make history

Igor Birman, shown here, is running for Congress in California. (Igor Birman) During the darkest days of the Cold War, some in Washington feared a Communist infiltration inside the highest reaches of the government. It would have been unimaginable then…

Fort Hood: Yet another tragedy from our broken mental health care system

Lt. Gen. Mark Milley, commanding general of III Corps and Fort Hood, speaks with the media outside of an entrance to the Fort Hood military base following a shooting that occurred inside, Wednesday, April 2, 2014, in Fort Hood, Texas.…

Hot swimsuit styles for beach season

Price (Top): $58.00 Price (Bottoms): $38.00 “This suit combines a few of the summer’s hot trends: mixing and matching, bold prints and colors, and the bustier top,” said Natalie Tincher, owner of Buttoned Up, a New York City-based personal styling…

The Pentagon’s Peacenick budget — what are they thinking?

No one should be surprised by the shriveled Defense Department budget request the Obama administration released Monday. Shrinking our military to basic impotence has been on the Obama agenda since he took office – and on the New Left political…