I don’t think that too many people are taking President Obama’s National Commission on Fiscal Responsibility and Tax Reform very seriously. Most free-marketers believe that it is a mechanism to put lipstick on a significant tax hike, or add a national Value-Added Tax (VAT) to the taxman’s toolbox.  Nevertheless, it was a little startling to learn that the Commission might propose eliminating “the ability of employees to pay a portion of their health-insurance tab with pretax dollars”

All the hoopla over the Wall Street Journal's so-called Facebook "privacy breach" article, it’s subsequent and curiously-timed MySpace followup, and also the New York Times’ take on the ability of Facebook advertisers to target ads for nursing schools to gay men is unwittingly creating cover for a social networking privacy issue that's much bigger.

In order to satisfy the admonition that “California has to be a leader” — a rationale shallow even by the standards of political sloganeering — the Golden State enacted in 2006 the Global Warming Solutions Act (“AB32”), mandating a reduction in purported greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by 2020.

A spate of regulatory rollbacks from the folks empowered to impose ObamaCare upon us has mitigated - at least for a short term - ObamaCare's harmful consequences.  Why are the ObamaCrats walking back the most popular so-called "consumer protections"?

In Florida, a federal judge has ruled that a high-profile challenge to ObamaCare’s constitutionality — filed by the state of Florida, 20 others states, and the National Federation of Independent Business — will be allowed to proceed. The Obama administration had attempted to block the challenge, but District Court Judge Roger Vinson has ruled that the plaintiffs have standing, their claims have merit, and the case can advance.

Strongly indicating just how well ObamaCare is resonating with the public as we approach the midterm elections, Politico reports that, so far in October, advertising in opposition to ObamaCare and/or in support of repeal has outpaced advertising in support of ObamaCare by a margin of "20-to-1."

When Missouri voters passed an anti-Obamacare referendum two months ago by a tally of 71 to 29 percent, Sen. Harry Reid responded, “It’s very obvious that people have a lack of understanding of our health care reform bill.

Somewhere between the election of President Obama and the raging battle to repeal ObamaCare, the health care industry has woken up — sort of.