When is the last time you had to make an appointment with a specialist, or visit the emergency room?  Well, I can tell you this, whenever our family  has, the wait to get an appointment or be seen by emergency room doctors has been extraordinary.  I was seeking an appointment with a urologist- 7 weeks until the soonest opening- and this was after checking with numerous doctors and clinics.   Visiting... 

Annelise Anderson Senior Research Fellow The Hoover Institution Stanford UniversityPrepared for the Public Policy Conference Rebuilding America’s Foundation: Prosperity, Personal Freedom, and Private Enterprise Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas June 23, 1995 My subject today is bringing accountability to the federal budget process. Just what is accountability, and what we are to do to those who... 

The other day I went to a Hollywood luncheon crammed with producers, directors, writers and other film industry notables. One of them, Larry Gelbart of “MASH” fame, spoke, telling the group that since capitalism has failed, why don’t we try socialism? Try socialism? Take a sip of it and see how it tastes?  It doesn’t work that way. There’s an old saying that you can’t be half-socialist... 

Pierre, SD – My son and I are on ground where one of my heroes — the legendary Joe Foss, U.S. Marine, America’s leading ace in aerial combat, Medal of Honor recipient, mentor and friend  — once stood beside me. We’re hunting — and exercising our Second Amendment right “to keep and bear arms.” We will be back home in time to vote in hopes that this “right... 

If Barack Obama is not a socialist, he does the best imitation of one I’ve ever seen. Under his tax plan, the top 5 percent of wage-earners have their income tax rates raised from 35 percent to 40 percent, while the bottom 40 percent of all wage-earners, who pay no income tax, are sent federal checks. If this is not the socialist redistribution of wealth, what is it? A steeply graduated income... 

Dishing from the McCain campaign trail with Judy Black, national co-chair of Women for McCain. Judy is traveling with her husband, McCain’s top advisor Charlie Black. We talked behind the scenes on the trail in the battleground states. Connie Hair: Tell me about the reaction you’re getting from women around the country. Judy Black: The women are so fired up. We’ve been going into the battleground... 

Is Robert Gates hoping that if Barack Obama is elected president, he will keep him on as Secretary of Defense? It sure looks like it. Last week, while speaking at the U.S. Institute of Peace, Gates tacitly endorsed Obama’s famous identification of Afghanistan as the central front in the war on terror. After a few brief and perfunctory remarks about Iraq, Gates spent most of his address talking about... 

A Federal Communications Commission investigation of on-air military analysts is providing a glimpse of what Democrats and an Obama administration will do to critics once they capture Washington. The FCC has sent letters to some of the nation’s most prominent military analysts — some of them pro-President Bush and pro-war — suggesting they may have broken the law when they appeared... 

If he’s elected next week, Barack Obama won’t be our first black president: Toni Morrison labeled Bill Clinton our “first black president” in October 1998.  (We have seen no reports that she retracted that label as a result of the South Carolina primary campaign). And never mind all the nonsense floating around the internet.  Barack Obama wasn’t born in Indonesia, or Kenya or wherever. ... 

In the early months after the September 11 attacks, Democrats began to complain that the Bush administration was muzzling them. They whined about not being able to criticize the administration’s policies or risk being called “unpatriotic” or “undermining the war effort.” Of course, the Bush administration did no such thing. There was legitimate concern that newspapers...