By Byron York One striking thing about the new White House Obamacare promotion campaign is that so far it hasn’t had much to say about the central focus of Obamacare, which is helping Americans buy affordable health insurance. Look at the cases President Obama has highlighted. There are young people who say they have benefited […]

By Michael Barone Watching the twists and turns of American foreign policy while reading Christopher Clark’s “The Sleepwalkers: How Europe Went to War in 1914” is an unnerving experience. Clark’s history, unlike many on the outbreak of World War I, starts not with the assassination of the Archduke Franz Ferdinand in Sarajevo in June 1914, […]

By Star Parker When presidents give speeches, the affair is choreographed like a Broadway production. The message is not just the words of the speech, but where it is given and who happens to be the chosen audience. So it was not by accident that President Obama chose a theater in a poor black neighborhood […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas –  ”Ongoing revelations of the NSA’s domestic spying, and increasingly frequent news of online security breaches, have Texans appropriately on edge. “As we have done throughout our history, Texas must lead the way in defending individual freedom. Limited government and ample personal freedom are the linchpins of our state’s success, […]

ObamaCare, CSCOPE both beyond fixing By Bill Ames Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – Americans increasingly realize that Obamacare is not about providing quality healthcare for all Americans.  Its creators could care less.  Rather, it is about a progressive power grab, structured to gain control over a large chunk of the U. S. economy. Likewise […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (COLLEGE STATION) – Gov. Rick Perry today joined Gordon Coburn, president of Cognizant, to present the company’s $150,000 science, technology, engineering and mathematics (STEM) grant to Texas A&M University. The grant comes in the form of a three-year commitment from Cognizant and will support the promotion of STEM education […]

The Rothenberg Political Report“ As longtime readers of this column know, voters in one-party states sometimes elect the nominee of the “wrong” party as governor. Today’s question is whether state Sen. Wendy Davis, a Democrat, has a fighting chance to win next year’s gubernatorial election in Texas, which remains a rock-solid Republican state.

South Texans’ Property Rights Association Supports Staples  Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas –  “There is only one candidate who fully understands the issue and has a plan that can solve this huge disaster. I get discouraged when I hear candidates spouting one dimensional, hot button solutions without having any idea of what they are talking […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (KATY) – Gov. Rick Perry today joined GEICO chairman and CEO Tony Nicely to announce the company will be expanding its Katy operations, creating 1,000 new jobs over the next three years and $8.5 million in capital investment. 

Texas Boat Dealers to Present Award   Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – (HOUSTON) – The Boating Trades Association of Texas (BTAT) and Boating Trades Association of Metropolitan Houston (BTAMH) will present the 2013 Lone Star Awards for Legislative Excellence to State Representative Dan Flynn (R-Van) and State Senator John Carona (R-Dallas) for their legislative efforts […]

Texas Insider Report: AUSTIN, Texas – “Its like anything else these days … there’s a whole lot being said, but those saying it don’t have all the facts,” says the Texas House’s Select Committee on Govt. Transparency & Operations Co-Chair Dan Flynn of the controversial and much-watched UT Board of Regents Investigation. “The facts, to try […]

By Paul Bedard   The nation’s view of former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, colored by the horrific Benghazi assassination of the U.S. ambassador to Libya on her watch, has suddenly turned upside down, with more now holding an unfavorable opinion of the likely 2016 presidential candidate.

By David Freddoso “Conservatives are operating on the assumption that [Obamacare is] an irredeemable disaster that they can ride all the way to 2016,” New York Times columnist Paul Krugman wrote on his blog last week, “but the facts on the ground are getting better by the day.” He went on: “Obamacare will turn into a […]

By Byron York  “Since the administration has badly mismanaged the creation of a giant new government program, one based in no small part on technology, then why should lawmakers rush to approve another giant new government program, one based in no small part on technology?” David Plouffe, a former top Obama adviser still close to the […]

By Susan Ferrechio House investigators want to know when President Obama realized he could not uphold his repeated promise that “if you like your doctor, you will be able to keep your doctor” under the new health care law. House Government and Oversight Committee Chairman Darrell Issa, R-Calif., on Monday wrote to 15 insurance companies, including […]

By Michael Barone Not many foreign policy experts would argue with the proposition that the country with which the United States has the most problematic relationship is Pakistan. Most Americans, when they have thought about it, have taken a similar view since Osama bin Laden was killed in a raid by Navy SEAL Team Six in […]

By Ann Coulter Back in September, The New York Times promoted Bill de Blasio’s mayoral candidacy with an editorial titled, “Don’t Fear the Squeegee Man.” The editorial informed readers that crime wouldn’t get worse under de Blasio because “policing is far better than it used to be, thanks to innovations by Mayor David Dinkins.” (Emphasis added […]

By Thomas Sowell Depressing news about black students scoring far below white students on various mental tests has become so familiar that people in different parts of the ideological spectrum have long ago developed their different explanations for why this is so. But both may have to do some rethinking, in light of radically different news […]