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As ObamaCare Continues To Struggle, Medicare Part D Keeps Shining

Yesterday, President Obama’s pick to be the next health secretary, Sylvia Mathews Burwell, faced questions over the troubled healthcare law. Burwell pledged to recoup any federal taxpayer dollars that were misused on failed health sign-up websites in states including Maryland…

Is conservative free speech banned in America?

(Reuters) Is there free speech left in America…if you’re a conservative or Christian? Isn’t free speech protected by the U.S. Constitution? Can your views cost you your job, career or property? Don’t look now but it’s happening. Views considered “too…

Hope & change we can believe in — strong Republican health care alternative is here

House Speaker John Boehner said something noteworthy at the recent House Republican retreat on Maryland’s Eastern Shore: “It’s important that we show the American people we’re not just the opposition party, we’re actually the alternative party.” To be sure, there’s…

In State Of The Union, Obama Fails To Rise To The Challenge Of The Moment

President Barack Obama delivers the State of Union address before a joint session of Congress on Tuesday, Jan. 28, 2014. (AP Photo/Larry Downing, Pool) President Obama took the stage tonight for his annual State of the Union address on shaky…

Please, Mr. President, for the good of the country, let’s delay ObamaCare

Today, President Obama and the Democrats are faced with the opportunity to take a timeout – a timeout from ObamaCare. I believe that they should delay ObamaCare for six months to a year. America’s health care system isn’t something that…

What Democrats need to ask Secretary Sebelius about ObamaCare

The path forward for the Democrats Health and Human Service Secretary Kathleen Sebelius is scheduled to testify before the House Energy and Commerce Committee Wednesday. In her prepared testimony, which has already been released to the media, she acknowledges the…

Five reasons Americans already love ObamaCare — plus one reason why they’re gonna love it even more, soon

There’s a reason Republicans have been rushing to try and defund the Affordable Care Act before October 1, when major sections of the law take effect. ; ; Republicans know what polls show — ;that most Americans don’t know what’s…

Reframing The Health Care Debate Is A Long-Term Political Must

With the Syria crisis entering a new phase, the focus among Washington policymakers has shifted to the debate over the debt ceiling and efforts by far-right Republicans to try and defund the Affordable Care Act. While it makes for good…

The Threat At Home — The NSA And The “Golden Age of Spying”

“An aggressor nation or extremist group could use these kinds of cyber tools to gain control of critical switches. They could derail passenger trains, or even more dangerous, derail passenger trains loaded with lethal chemicals. They could contaminate the water…

Obama Plays Politics With The NSA

As I discussed in my most recent post, thanks to last week’s newest revelation–that the NSA scans virtually all communications between Americans and their correspondents overseas, based on the conveniently inexplicit and ambiguous rule that the NSA may “seek to…