“The Public Health Service Act allows the Secretary to support and to encourage others to support non-profit organizations conducting public health activities,” Department of Health and Human Services spokesman Jason Young said in a statement last Friday, after news broke that HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius had been calling health care industry executives to ask them to support Enroll America, a health care non-profit founded by former Sebelius aide Anne Filipic.

“For the last several months the Secretary has been working with a wide range of stakeholders who share in the mission of getting Americans the help they need and deserve,” … Continue Reading

“Ambassador Rice was using unclassified talking points that were developed by the intelligence community and provided not just to her, not just to the executive branch, but to the legislative branch,” White House press secretary Jay Carney told reporters on November 12, 2012. “And they represented the best assessment by our intelligence professionals about what had happened in Benghazi at that time. The White House and the State Department have made clear that the single adjustment that was made to those talking points by either of those two — of these two institutions were changing the word ‘consulate’ to ‘diplomatic … Continue Reading

“The notion that we are going to hunt down and deport 11 million people is a fantasy, and one the American public neither buys nor supports,” National Council of La Raza President Janet Murguía testified to the Senate Judiciary Committee Monday. “So the question then is, what do we do? The majority of Americans support an earned legalization with a roadmap to citizenship as an essential component of immigration reform.”

Deportation or citizenship. Those are the only two options amnesty-advocates like Murguia want Americans to believe are available for dealing with the approximately 11 million people currently in the United … Continue Reading

Flanked on both sides by families victimized by gun violence, President Obama recently asked the assembled reporters in the East Room of the White House, “Why wouldn’t we want to close the loophole that allows as many as 40 percent of all gun purchases to take place without a background check?”

That 40 percent figure has been a favorite of gun control advocates for over a decade now. They constantly use it to push for the closing of the so-called “gun show loophole” which just means that most private gun sales are not subject to background checks. In addition to … Continue Reading

Last Friday, the Labor Department delivered some bad news to President Obama. U.S. employers created just 88,000 jobs in March. The number of Americans with jobs fell by 206,000. Another half-million Americans gave up looking for work entirely. It was a dreadful report. So, of course, the White House immediately blamed anybody but Obama for our deteriorating economy.

“It is important to bear in mind that the March household and payroll surveys are the first monthly surveys to look at employment since the beginning of sequestration,” White House Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisers Alan Kreuger wrote. ” While the … Continue Reading

“Unemployment in California remains high, but it’s coming down,” The New York Times Paul Krugman declared in his Monday column, “and there’s a projected budget surplus, in part because the implosion of the state’s Republican Party finally gave Democrats a big enough political advantage to push through some desperately needed tax increases. Far from presiding over a Greek-style crisis, Gov. Jerry Brown is proclaiming a comeback.”

Krugman is right about one thing: California’s Republican Party has imploded and state Democrats are now free to tax, spend, and borrow as much … Continue Reading

“So when you hear about the Affordable Care Act — Obamacare — and I don’t mind the name because I really do care,” Obama said in Cincinnati this past July, “You should know that once we have fully implemented, you’re going to be able to buy insurance through a pool so that you can get the same good rates as a group that if you’re an employee at a big company you can get right now — which means your premiums will go down.”

That was the promise Obama made when he pushed for Obamacare to become law. That was … Continue Reading

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) new budget, which balances in just ten years, has angered many special interest groups, perhaps none more than federal employee unions who are calling his budget an outright lie. Last week, American Federation of Government Employees National President David Cox released a statement reading in part:

Once again, he repeats the bald-faced lie that compensation for federal employees exceeds that of their counterparts in the private sector, when the reverse is true. His conclusions are as inaccurate as his citations: the CBO did not conclude that there was a 16% differential in … Continue Reading

House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan released his fiscal year 2014 budget this week, and the Obama administration wasted no time attacking him. White House Press Secretary Jay Carney released a statement claiming, “By choosing to give the wealthiest Americans a new tax cut, this budget as written will either fail to achieve any meaningful deficit reduction, raise taxes on middle class families by more than $2,000 – or both.”

This is, of course, completely false.

For starters, the Ryan budget does not cut taxes. Projected revenues under the Ryan budget match current Congressional Budget Office revenue projections for every … Continue Reading

Last week, during United States Supreme Court oral arguments for Shelby County vs. Holder, Justice Antonin Scalia described Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act as a “perpetuation of racial entitlement.”

Rep. John Lewis (D-GA), who was beaten by Alabama State Troopers over 48 years ago during a civil rights march in Selma, Alabama, took this as an assault on the entire Voting Rights Act, telling MSNBC: “It is an affront to all of what the civil rights movement stood for, what people died for, what people bled for, and those of us who marched across that bridge … Continue Reading