by Adam Allouba You may not hear that precise expression every day, but you recognize the sentiment. It’s one that you probably feel yourself now and then: The government should do something to fix some problem or another. It may be something gravely serious or nothing more than a minor nuisance; it may be something […]

We’re No. 1 — In Public Employee Pay Andrew G. Biggs National Review, August 12, 2013 Pay for state and local government employees has gotten a great deal of publicity. Lost in the press attention, however, is that federal employee compensation remains a problem, too, and new data again indicate that Washington, D.C., may be […]

Strassel: The IRS Scandal Started at the Top | WSJ Was the White House involved in the IRS’s targeting of conservatives? No investigation needed to answer that one. Of course it was. President Obama and Co. are in full deniability mode, noting that the IRS is an “independent” agency and that they knew nothing about […]

Adm. William H. McRaven, commander of U.S. Special Operations Command, gave a commencement address . . . that graduates, and their parents, won’t soon forget. WSJ The University of Texas slogan is “What starts here changes the world.” I have to admit—I kinda like it. “What starts here changes the world.” Tonight there are almost […]

Russia’s human capital is in steep decline. A 15-year-old boy there won’t even live as long as one in Afghanistan. By Nicholas Eberstadt, WSJ History is full of instances where a rising power, aggrieved and dissatisfied, acts aggressively to obtain new borders or other international concessions. In Russia today we see a much more unusual […]

NCPA Brief Analyses No 797 | Women In The Economy | by Pamela Villarreal Women’s labor force participation rate (LFPR) – the percentage of individuals employed or looking for work – reached an all-time high of 60 percent in 1999, but since then has steadily declined to 57.2 percent in 2012. Men’s labor force participation […]

HIPAA does not protect health privacy State Health Information Exchanges (HIEs) have been created to share your medical records statewide and in the National Health Information Network, now called eHealth Exchange. 2.2 million entities (600,000 health care providers and 1.5 million business associates) can access your private medical records without your consent. The government has […]

by Liqun Liu, Andrew J. Rettenmaier and Thomas R. Saving NCPA |Wednesday, July 16, 2014 Congress is once again considering changes to Social Security in an attempt to “save” the program. Social Security benefit payments have exceeded tax revenues since 2010; the funding deficit is growing and, barring reform, will continue to grow indefinitely. Higher […]

The SF Oakland Bay Bridge open in 2013 and is showing water damage and rust its first year. The old rusty bridge it replaces was built in 1936 and has survived earthquakes. The San Francisco–Oakland Bay Bridge (known locally as the Bay Bridge) is a complex of bridges spanning San Francisco Bay in California. As […]

Taking the Government Out of Health Care By Avik Roy | September 8, 2014 The government takeover of our health care system didn’t happen with the passage of the Affordable Care Act in 2010, says Avik Roy, senior fellow at the Manhattan Institute. It happened in 1965, he writes, with the creation of Medicare and […]