GOP Budget Will Tackle Economic Challenges

Posted: Friday, March 23, 2012
The American people have before them two clear and very different approaches for how to address the nation's fundamental economic challenges. The president's plan preserve the spending status quo with tax hikes. The Ryan budget promotes strong private sector growth with sensible tax, entitlement, and spending reforms.  [Full Story]

A Federal-State Framework for Market-Based Reform

Posted: Friday, March 16, 2012
A federal-state framework for market-based reform of health care will do far more to control costs, expand coverage, and improve quality than the top-down, government-centric approach of Obamacare.  [Full Story]

The Latest Mandate Announcement: 'We Need a Process to Get Past November!'

Posted: Friday, March 16, 2012
The Obama administration's latest pronouncement on the HHS mandate is a thinly veiled attempt to punt the entire issue into 2013, thus allowing the president to continue his doublespeak on the issue.  [Full Story]

Putting Health Care Spending on a Sustainable Path
Testimony Presented to the Senate Budget Committee
Posted: Monday, March 5, 2012
Putting health care spending on a sustainable path will require substituting a functioning and effective marketplace for the failed model of government micromanagement.  [Full Story]

The Top Five Flawed Arguments Against Premium Support

Posted: Tuesday, February 21, 2012
The arguments against premium support are weak and flawed. Thirty years of experience show that the government can't make Medicare more efficient, but consumer choice can.  [Full Story]

The President's Plan: Higher Taxes, Deep Defense Cuts, and the Entitlement Status Quo

Posted: Tuesday, February 14, 2012
When the unprecedented tax hikes and the unrealistic defense cuts are set aside, the deficit in President Obama's budget would still reach 7.1 percent of GDP in 2022, which is well above the historical norm and thus dangerous for the U.S. economy.  [Full Story]

A Clash of Conscience

Posted: Monday, January 30, 2012
With Obamacare, it was only a matter of time before the federal government tried to use its new powers to coerce Catholics into submitting to a secularist humanist worldview.  [Full Story]

Populist Rhetoric Does Not a Plan Make

Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
The president's State of the Union message boiled down to this: if only the Republicans were willing to tax the rich, all would be well. Unfortunately for the president, there's absolutely no evidence to support this claim.  [Full Story]

Obama's Final SOTU?

Posted: Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Governor Mitch Daniels' Republican rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address was a masterpiece: concise, direct, optimistic, and tough.  [Full Story]

Inside the Obamacare Spin Zone

Posted: Tuesday, January 24, 2012
The White House says twenty-eight states are "on their way" to implementing Obamacare. But a fairer assessment is that fifteen states are "on their way" while the other thirty-five most definitely are not.  [Full Story]