A minimum wage hike for healthcare workers in California was supposed to take effect this Saturday. But over the past week, Gov. Gavin Newsom (D-CA) and his Democratic allies have worked feverishly on legislation to postpone it. California Democrats haven’t suddenly become free-market acolytes. They’re worried that the wage increase, which may cost the state […]

Healthcare spending is eating up an increasingly large portion of the federal budget, to the point that over the next 30 years, per the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office, healthcare outlays will consume $1 out of every $10 of our annual total economic output. Thankfully, private-sector scientific innovation may help tamp down the healthcare red ink, […]

Former Republican presidential candidate Nikki Haley was denounced this week for being, among other things, a “genocidal racist,” a “Nazi,” a “vicious thuggette,” a “ghoul,” a “fascist,” and a “lunatic,” of being “criminally insane” and in hell. Readers will not be surprised to hear that these unhinged accusations came from people who support the genocidal […]

Former President Donald Trump was speaking at a campaign rally in Indianola, Iowa, in January when he called out to someone in the crowd. “Another man who’s a friend of mine,” Trump said. “I’m not going to mess around with — he’s [mayor of] Knox County, Tennessee.” “Do you know Glenn Jacobs?” Trump asked the […]