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Ukraine Moves Towards Aligned Status And Maybe Even NATO Membership

12/23/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Change may be afoot in Ukraine. A vote of 303 to eight in the Ukrainian parliament today showed overwhelming support for the country to renounce their non-aligned status, a position they’ve held since 2010 when Viktor Yanukovych was president. The…

House Passes $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill

12/12/2014 Published on Forbes.com
The latest battle between Republicans and Democrats over the spending bill was anticlimactic in comparison to the past. For starters, the drama really only lasted a week – a far shorter period of time than we’ve seen legislators go at…

President Obama To Move Ahead With Immigration Reform By Executive Order

11/19/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Public opinion be damned. Tomorrow night in a prime time speech, the President will unveil his plan to shield up to five million illegal immigrants from deportation. By expanding the Dreamers program to adults –a move that the President said…

ObamaCare’s whopping Cadillac tax under fire

Published on Foxnews.com
Of all the taxes in ObamaCare, none is more onerous than the whopping 40 percent Cadillac tax on the more generous employer-provided health care plans, which often are union plans. The now-famous former outside adviser on ObamaCare, Jonathan Gruber of…

University of Rhode Island removes Gruber video after it goes viral

11/17/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Economist Jonathan Gruber speaks at a conference of the Workers Compensation Research Institute in Boston, Massachusetts, March 12, 2014. Dr. Gruber is a professor at MIT and the architect of the healthcare reform laws in Massachusetts and the American Affordable…

Russian Forces Moving Into Ukraine

11/13/2014 Published on Forbes.com
Earlier this week, I relayed an account from a colleague about the situation in Ivano-Frankivsk, a city in Western Ukraine that is now feeling the effects of the violence between Ukrainians and pro-Russian separatists that had, until recently, been largely…

An Opportunity For More Clarity On Healthcare — And Better Policy

Published on Forbes.com
The Democrats were ready for defeat last Tuesday, no matter what their fundraising emails said. But they weren’t prepared for the wipeout they suffered not only in the Senate, but also on the state level. Republicans took three statehouses on…

What’s next for ObamaCare?

11/12/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
Now that the midterm elections – featuring ObamaCare as a key issue – are over, the big question is what’s next for the president’s health care plan. “ObamaCare was an issue for the candidates, it was an issue for the…

Supreme Court could weigh in on same sex marriage bans by next June

11/11/2014 Published on Foxnews.com
With a ruling last week by the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals on same sex marriage bans, it appears likely the Supreme Court will ultimately weigh in on the contentious issue, possibly before their term ends in June 2015. Until…

War Continues In Eastern Ukraine And Makes It To Western Ukraine

11/10/2014 Published on Forbes.com
For weeks now, our country’s focus has been on every issue besides Ukraine. Ebola, ISIS and the midterm elections have taken over our newspapers and our television sets. And not without due cause – each of these issues certainly deserves…