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According to a sensational report by Awad Mustafa in Defense News, not only has Tehran signed an agreement with the United Arab Emirates over three disputed islands in the Persian Gulf, near the Strait of Hormuz, but it has also reached a possibly ev...

There's been a lot of talk on the right about the importance of having a policy agenda that addresses the challenges of poverty and economic mobility. A neglected aspect of that discussion, however, is the degree to which access to health coverage is...

My post yesterday about Obamacare’s abortion subsidies and Slate’s coverage thereof drew this e-mail:Sorry, Ramesh, but you’re not a lawyer and it shows. The fact is that the Affordable Care Act does NOT subsidize abortion. It requires plans th...

Friday Links

on Jan 17, 2014

What if we were to dump all the tea in the world into the Great Lakes? How strong, compared to a regular cup of tea, would the lake tea be?Amazon product review du jour: perfect for revenge against your office's mystery food/candy thief (plus additio...

Ben Sasse is on a roll. Yesterday he got Mark Levin’s endorsement during an on-air interview. You can listen to it here at about the 92:00 mark, and hear from Ben himself about why he’s running. ​...

After being cleared in the Senate, the bipartisan and massive omnibus budget bill is heading to the White House to receive the president's signature. The rationale for growing spending beyond the sequester levels is that we certainly couldn't live wi...

The Mask Slips at HHS

on Jan 17, 2014

In a Federal Register notice yesterday, the Department of Health and Human Services announced that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention are soliciting nominations for possible membership on the Advisory Committee on Breast Cancer in Young W...