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Believe it or not, you can still buy a George W. Bush "Elite Force Aviator" 12-inch action figure to commemorate his 2003 aircraft carrier "Mission Accomplished" photo op prematurely celebrating...

Baby, it's hot outside. If it wasn't for the refreshing cold front pushing through parts of the U.S. right now, one might be tempted to think there is something to...

It's always been a challenge for Mitt Romney to explain the differences between Romneycare and Obamacare. The two programs share a lot of the same features -- mandate, penalties, subsidies,...

The bullying epidemic continues, even as a multi-pronged crackdown by states and educators gathers steam. For nine months, I dealt first-hand with the bullying issue almost every school day. The...

It figures. Health Savings Accounts, or HSAs, have been so successful at reducing the cost of health care, the ObamaCare people are out to get them. The HSA concept: Rather...

When was the last time you said, "I've got to watch this political convention from the opening gavel to the closing remarks?" I don't think a national convention from either...

Our friend Barney is getting married. That's hardly newsworthy -- this is the wedding season, after all -- except for one thing. Barney's last name is Frank, he was the...

Stacy Molai knows that life can be hard and unfair, and that the debates held in Washington actually affect real people. Molai is 31 and suffers from Crohn's disease, a...

We can all stop pretending continued R epublican anger about the Affordable Care Act is news. Some figured a Supreme Court ruling would settle things. And since the GOP said...

There are two competing theories on how to pull us out of the economic slump we're in, but you'd hardly know it from the debate going on in Washington.

When Chief Justice John Roberts upheld the constitutionality of Obamacare, he didn't just betray conservatives. His twisted legal logic also betrayed the American people by opening the door to the...

FARGO, N.D. -- It is early July and already for more than several weeks attack ads have been running on television. No, it's not Minnesota in the midst of a...

In a sane climate, Mitt Romney would be running for president on his one big success as a politician: achieving something close to universal private health insurance coverage as governor...

No one knew it at the time, but the key moment in the Supreme Court Obamacare case came on March 26, the first day of oral arguments, when few people...

My toilets are turning me into my father. When I was a kid in the 1970s, there were few greater worries than the plumbing. This was mostly because plumbers were...