Ow. Ow. My head hurts. How is it possible for one website’s costs to come anywhere near $2 billion? But a recent report by the Department of Health and Human Resources (HHS) indicates that Healthcare.gov, the troubled online market for Obamacare, is going to end up costing the federal government about 1.7 billion dollars: The […]
Continue reading →Recently, some idiot teacher named Michael Kaechele positively compared the riots in Ferguson to the Boston Tea Party. Yes. He really did: The tragic event of the killing of Michael Brown in Ferguson, Missouri have [sic] led to protests and rioting against police brutality. It brings to the surface (again) the institutional racism that has […]
Continue reading →The state of Tennessee has started drug testing welfare recipients in an effort to curb the amount of state and federal money going to the purchase and use of illegal drugs. But so far, they have turned up almost nothing. A recent article in Think Progress explains that the drug testing has proven that less […]
Continue reading →President Obama rolled out a new rule tweaking Obamacare regulations (what does he think he is anyway—an emperor?). In order to bridge the gap between his desire to force companies to fund universal contraceptives access and the Supreme Court’s insistence that religious companies shouldn’t have to violate their beliefs, Obama proposed that religious companies should […]
Continue reading →With all the talk about minimum wage, most people miss the real culprit for the rising cost of living: inflation. Does it really matter if you make $20 an hour, if every dollar you earn is worth ten cents? Of course not. Recently, some minimum wage workers in Philadelphia learned about the Federal Reserve. They […]
Continue reading →There’s one consistent common factor uniting all gun control advocates. They usually don’t know very much about guns. Whether it’s “30 magazine clips” or the arbitrary definition of “assault weapons,” gun control advocates are regularly just wrong about guns. Don Lemon joined the ranks recently in spectacular fashion. According to Don Lemon, he actually bought […]
Continue reading →In an unfortunate turn of events for all those people who rely on global warming alarmism to get other people to do their bidding, it seems that the earth will continue its current cooling trend for at least the next decade. Not to be deterred by inconvenient facts, global warming alarmists are using this trend […]
Continue reading →If the situation in Ferguson has done nothing else, it has highlighted the urgent necessity of holding the police accountable for their actions. It is very possible that Michael Brown tried to reach for a police officer’s gun during the altercation that resulted in his death. It is also possible that it didn’t go down […]
Continue reading →One of the most consistent refrains of Tea Party politicians is that their political philosophy is the most consistent with the Founding Fathers. But some more astute observers of history are disputing this, saying that the Founding Fathers were politicians who crafted the Constitution on compromises—and that some of the Founding Fathers were more big-government […]
Continue reading →In a meeting recently with a Christian businessman, Justus (our VP of Operations) and I presented our case for why art in the church should be supported by a patron system rather than the market. A few minutes into the presentation, the businessman interrupted us with a question that had been nagging at him: “But […]
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