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The Truth About Health Insurance

Wed, 12 Aug 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - Aug. 12 (Opinion) - Only nine states have the costly rules that Obama wants to impose nationwide.

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Obama's Gitmo

Wed, 22 Apr 2009 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By William McGurn - Apr. 22 (Opinion) - You know we live in interesting times when Helen Thomas is going after Barack Obama. Miss Thomas was asking the White House press secretary last week why detainees at Bagram Air Base in Afghanistan should not have the same right to challenge their detention in federal court that last year's Supreme Court ruling in Boumediene v. Bush gave to Guantanamo's detainees. All Mr. Gibbs could do was interrupt and correct the doyenne of the White House press corps about Mr. Obama's class as a law professor.

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Barack Obama's Expensive Domestic Agenda Will Cost America's Middle Class

Thu, 26 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Feb. 26 (Opinion) - The bottom line is that Mr. Obama is selling the country on a 2% illusion. ..Mr. Obama is very good at portraying his agenda as nothing more than center-left pragmatism. But pragmatists don't ignore the data. And the reality is that the only way to pay for Mr. Obama's ambitions is to reach ever deeper into the pockets of the American middle class.

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A Spending Education

Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Feb. 07 (Editorial) - o understand the problem with the stimulus bill, it helps to focus on specific parts. Take the $142 billion for schools, which is nearly double the total outlays of the Department of Education in 2007. Now consider that much of this cash would go to public-school systems that don't even need the money for its earmarked purposes. The Milwaukee Public School system, for example, would receive $88.6 million over two years for new construction projects under the House version of the stimulus -- even though the district currently has 15 vacant school buildings and declining enrollment. Between 1990 and 2008, inflation-adjusted MPS spending rose by 35%, per-pupil spending increased by 36% and state aid grew by 58%. Over the same period, enrollment fell by a percentage point and is projected to continue falling, leaving the system with enough excess capacity for some 22,000 students.

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Barack Obama Will Ration Your Health Care

Tue, 30 Dec 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Sally C. Pipes - Dec. 30 (Opinion) - One of the great myths in health care is that the uninsured are responsible for driving up private premiums by shifting costs.

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Russia Out of Rehab

Tue, 18 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Nov. 18 (Editorial) - Russia needed only a few days this August to drive Georgia's army into retreat. In the aftermath, Europe has held out only a bit longer than Tbilisi's troops.

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McCain Owes Sarah Some Straight Talk

Tue, 11 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Nov. 11 (Opinion) - In the week since the election, Mr. McCain's campaign team has leaked some nasty stuff about Sarah Palin. These leaks are personal, and they speak more to the character of Mr. McCain and the leakers than they do to Mrs. Palin. So it will be telling if Mr. McCain stands up for his partner and says how offended he has been by what some of his staffers have done to her.

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The Treatment of Bush Has Been a Disgrace

Wed, 05 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Jeffrey Scott Shapiro - Nov. 05 (Editorial) - The treatment President Bush has received from this country is nothing less than a disgrace. The attacks launched against him have been cruel and slanderous, proving to the world what little character and resolve we have. The president is not to blame for all these problems. He never lost faith in America or her people, and has tried his hardest to continue leading our nation during a very difficult time.

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We Could Be In for a Lurch to the Left

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Fred Barnes - Nov. 04 (Opinion) - A sharp lurch to the left and enactment of a liberal agenda, or major parts of it, are all but inevitable. The centrist limits in earlier eras of Democratic control are gone.

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Don't Let the Polls Affect Your Vote

Thu, 30 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Karl Rove - Oct. 30 (Opinion) - Polls can reveal underlying or emerging trends and help campaigns decide where to focus. The danger is that commentators use them to declare a race over before the votes are in. This can demoralize the underdog's supporters, depressing turnout. I know that from experience.

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The Election Choice: Taxes

Sat, 25 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Brian M. Carney - Oct. 25 (Opinion) - When it comes to taxes, the difference between Barack Obama and John McCain is arguably as wide as it's been in a presidential race since Ronald Reagan and Walter Mondale battled in 1984.

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Good Policies Can Save the Economy

Thu, 09 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Lee E. Ohanian - Oct. 09 (Opinion) - President Bush argued that the passage of the Treasury rescue plan was necessary to prevent the U.S. from entering a severe downturn. Yesterday, the Federal Reserve announced it will begin buying commercial paper to, in the words of Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke, help "financial firms cope with reduced access to their usual sources of funding."

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The 'Fact Checking' Fad

Wed, 08 Oct 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By James Taranto - Oct. 08 (Opinion) - 2008 is the year in which "fact checking" of political ads and statements became a full-blown journalistic fad. May it soon go the way of streaking and Mexican jumping beans.

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Gore's Rebellion

Mon, 29 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Sep. 29 (Opinion) - I believe we have reached the stage where it is time for civil disobedience to prevent the construction of new coal plants that do not have carbon capture and sequestration." He added, "clean coal does not exist."

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The GOP Loves the Heartland To Death

Wed, 17 Sep 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Thomas Frank - Sep. 17 (Opinion) - Leave the fantasy land of convention rhetoric, and you will find that small-town America, this legendary place of honesty and sincerity and dignity, is not doing very well. If you drive west from Kansas City, Mo., you will find towns where Main Street is largely boarded up. You will see closed schools and hospitals. You will hear about depleted groundwater and massive depopulation.

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The Denver Democrats

Mon, 25 Aug 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Aug. 25 (Editorial) - We are in an election cycle with a surprise around every corner. But if the Democrats are on the brink of victory, the country is entitled to ask: How would they govern? To what purpose would the Democrats use their power?

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Iraq's Oil Surge

Sun, 06 Jul 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Jul. 06 (Opinion) - Here's a thought experiment: Assume that Iraq's democratic government declared it was nationalizing its oil industry, a la Venezuela or Saudi Arabia, while excluding American companies from the country. How do you think U.S. politicians would react? With angry cries of "ingratitude" and "this is what Americans died for"?

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The Bush Doctrine Is Relevant Again

Tue, 24 Jun 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Bret Stephens - Jun. 24 (Opinion) - Zimbabwe is now another spot on the map of the civilized world's troubled conscience. Burma is also there, along with Tibet and Darfur. (Question: When will "Free Zimbabwe" bumper stickers become ubiquitous?) These are uniquely nasty places, and not just because uniquely nasty things are happening. They're nasty because the dissonance between the wider world's professed concern and what it actually does is almost intolerable.

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How Bush Sold the War

Tue, 27 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Douglas J. Feith - May. 27 (Opinion) - White House officials understandably preferred to declare affirmative messages about Iraq's future, rather than rehash the government's intelligence embarrassments. Even so, I thought it was a strategic error for the president to make no effort to defend the arguments that had motivated him before the war. Mr. Bush's political opponents were intent on magnifying the administration's mistakes regarding WMD. On television and radio, in print and on the Internet, day after day they repeated the claim that the undiscovered stockpiles were the sum and substance of why the U.S. went to war against Saddam.

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The Clinton Divorce

Fri, 09 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - May. 09 (Editorial) - We mean the separation now under way between the Clintons and the Democratic Party. Like all divorces after lengthy unions, this one is painful and has had its moments of reconciliation, but after Tuesday a split looks inevitable.

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Israel Is Now America's Closest Ally

Wed, 07 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Michael B. Oren - May. 07 (Opinion) - the bonds between the two countries were not always so strong. For much of Israel's history, America was a distant and not always friendly power.

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In Praise of the 'Long' Campaign

Tue, 06 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Wall Street Journal - By Fred Barnes - May. 06 (Opinion) - Democratic strategists think the fight for the presidential nomination between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton has dragged on too long. Mr. Obama's supporters certainly agree. And a significant chunk of the mainstream media - the chunk with Obama sympathies - believes the race should have ended weeks ago with an unconditional surrender by Sen. Clinton. Now, according to a recent Fox News poll, even the voters - Democrats (67%), Republicans (58%), Independents (56%) - "think the Democratic primary has gone on too long."

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Obama's Health Care Record

Mon, 05 May 2008 00:00:00 -0700

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - By Scott Gottlieb - May. 05 (Opinion) - As a presidential candidate, Mr. Obama says people lack health insurance because "they can't afford it." He's right. But he is also partly responsible for why health insurance is too expensive. A long list of studies show that mandates like the ones Mr. Obama has championed drive up the cost of insurance for the very people priced out of coverage.

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Obama's Wiretap Votes

Wed, 13 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Feb. 13 (Opinion) - It says something about his national security world view, or his callowness, that Mr. Obama would vote to punish private companies that even the bipartisan Senate Intelligence Committee said had "acted in good faith."

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Wiretap Showdown

Mon, 11 Feb 2008 00:00:00 -0800

Opinion Journal (WSJ) - Feb. 11 (Editorial) - By far the worst threat is an amendment from Senator Chris Dodd (D., Conn.) to deny legal immunity to telephone companies that cooperated with the government on these wiretaps after 9/11. The companies face multiple lawsuits, so a denial of even retrospective immunity would certainly lead to less such cooperation in the future.

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