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Back in California, things are heating up between the big-spending Republican governor, who wants a massive new health care program that will cost taxpayers an estimated $12 billion to get “universal health care,” and the big-spending Democrat-controlled legislature that wants to require employers to spend at least 7.

We’re hearing a lot about “moral hazard” in the news these days.

Take me out to the ballgame, Take me out to the crowd.

The conservative movement has been adrift for the past several years, in part because it was closely tied to Republicans who claimed to embrace conservative principles about limited government, lower taxes and spending, increased choice in education and health care, and on several other points.

Make no mistake about it, the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) bills that recently passed both the U.

Newsweek columnist Robert Samuelson this week used his column to assail both politicians and think tanks for avoiding dealing with the reality of the coming entitlement Armageddon.

You know the old saying that no good deed goes unpunished.

Senators Max Baucus (D-Mont.

One of the problems that arises when a government passes lots of laws—and here Congress is an overachiever—is that things change over time.

With gas prices at uncomfortably high levels, politicians have been trying to make political points off them.