ObamaCare Turns Five: Five Broken Promises
And the week-long spotlight on ObamaCare’s fifth anniversary keeps rolling right along! Passing the ACA was no easy feat, and Democrats had to make all sorts of outlandish promises to…
Transparency fail: U.S. Department of Agriculture is running interference for Kay Hagan
The Obama administration is the most open and transparent administration in history…..said no serious person, EVER. Though the line is still repeated ad nauseam by White House and administration officials,…
Cronyism: Kay Hagan’s husband benefited from the stimulus bill she voted for
Sen. Kay Hagan (D-NC) had been in office for less than two months when she, in February 2009, cast the deciding vote for President Obama’s wasteful $830 billion…
Get ready for another round of health plan cancellations
There’s another round of health insurance policy cancellations coming, and the timing is more than a little awkward for vulnerable Senate Democrats, including Mark Begich (D-AK) and Kay Hagan (D-NC),…
Hagan hides from Obama
Senator Kay Hagan is trying to prove she can be tough on the president, (although voting with the president’s agenda 92% of the time makes it hard to believe)…
ObamaCare Protest at NC Senator’s Office
On Thursday, August 7, 32 North Carolina FreedomWorks activists gathered in Greensboro. Over 35 activists from 8 counties enjoyed good food and great conversation while writing letters to Senator Kay…
All Aboard… for Cronyism!
People often criticize capitalism as giving too much power to big business, and use this concern as a justification for more government intervention in the economy. But the kinds of…
Democrats Reveal Their Contempt for Voters on Campaign Finance
The Supreme Court’s recent ruling eliminating aggregate caps on the amount of money individual donors can contribute to political campaigns is an important victory for free speech. While caps on…
QE and Minimum Wage are State Sponsored Price Fixing
In his classic economic text, The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith had the following to say about collusion: “People of the same trade seldom meet together, even for merriment and…
Democrats’ Role Reversal on Corporatism
Old stereotypes die hard, regardless of their increasing inability to reflect reality. Consider the caricature of the corporate fat cat, clad cartoonishly in top hat and spats, building monopolies, crushing…