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Heavy-handed federal regulation of health care has painful consequences at the local level. And we’re not talking about Obamacare here.
The Oct. 15 termination of Las Vegas police officer Jesus Arevalo was supposed to a be a defining moment for the Metropolitan Police Department. An agency with a history of questionable fatal shootings of unarmed civilians, and a lack of accountability resulting from those deaths, for the first time had fired an officer for improper use of deadly force.
The Super Bowl is the only television event of the year when people are genuinely excited about watching commercials, quieting their friends not during the game, but during breaks. Unfortunately, this American pastime has become a target for activists threatening to ban some of the most iconic ads from the airwaves.
The American economy is shifting. In the past decade, there has been a significant increase in the number of business owners who are not wage and salary employees, but instead independent contractors. Since the “end” of the recession, there has been an increase of more than 1.8 million sole proprietors.
Faced with an electorate that’s soured on the health care law, Democrats have settled on a plan to boost their 2014 prospects: an aggressive push to raise the minimum wage, as featured in the president’s State of the Union speech. By making wage hikes a focal point at the ballot box or in a campaign platform, they hope to shift the conversation from Obamacare to old-fashioned class warfare. It may be a cynical strategy, but it’s one the GOP can’t afford to ignore.
President Barack Obama’s current diplomatic effort with Iran is founded upon the hope that its new president, Hassan Rouhani, is in fact moderate and will agree to forfeit Iran’s goal of building nuclear weapons. Obama ought to have first revisited Iran’s most critical position paper — the Constitution of the Islamic Republic of Iran. It best defines the Iranian regime’s policies and true intentions.