Caring about health care. Supporting Obamacare is cool; Counter narratives could get you killed

Caring about health care. Supporting Obamacare is cool; Counter narratives could get you killed

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin Here is what happens if you try to tell health care stories that defy big government orthodoxy: When GOP Congressman Rodney Davis of Illinois tried to recount how his wife, a nurse and colon cancer survivor, struggled in the nationalized Canadian health care system, liberal protesters responded by uttering […]

Real ‘affordable health care’ = Improved services, lower costs like in other markets

Real ‘affordable health care’ = Improved services, lower costs like in other markets

Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore Almost every promise made eight years ago about Obamacare turned out to be a falsehood. That is first and foremost why the law must be repealed. No, you couldn’t keep your insurance plan, doctor or provider in many cases. No, it didn’t save $2,500 per family (more like cost […]

Second Civil War update: Why the violence from the Left is being encouraged, not stopped

Second Civil War update: Why the violence from the Left is being encouraged, not stopped

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager In a recent column, I made the case that Americans are fighting the Second Civil War. The deep chasm that has opened up between the left — not liberals, the left — and the rest of the country is so wide and so unbridgeable that there is no other way […]

A thinking mom’s message for Jimmy Kimmel

A thinking mom’s message for Jimmy Kimmel

Special to WorldTribune.com By Michelle Malkin I feel your pain. But please use your brain. On Monday, late-night TV comedian Jimmy Kimmel delivered an emotional monologue about his newborn son. His baby was born with a congenital heart defect that required emergency open-heart surgery. Millions of American parents, myself included, have walked in Kimmel’s shoes. […]

Government increases poverty, and progressives don’t care

Government increases poverty, and progressives don’t care

Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore For all the obsessing in Washington over income inequality, why isn’t there more outrage over government policies that exacerbate the problem? There are hundreds of programs that increase poverty in America. Last week, at the Heritage Foundation forum on this very topic, my colleagues exposed many of these programs. […]

Watch out: The Trump budget drains the Swamp and the Swamp is not taking it well

Watch out: The Trump budget drains the Swamp and the Swamp is not taking it well

Special to WorldTribune.com By Stephen Moore Everyone in Washington hates Donald Trump’s new budget. So it must have something going for it. This is a budget plan that will surgically remove trillions of dollars of wasteful spending from the obese $3.9 trillion federal budget. Many agencies will have to live with cuts of 5, 10 […]

Character rot: Something for nothing is the most toxic addiction of all

Character rot: Something for nothing is the most toxic addiction of all

Special to WorldTribune.com Dennis Prager All addictions — whether to drugs, alcohol, gambling, sex or cigarettes — are very hard to escape. There is one addiction, however, that may be more difficult than any other to escape, in part because it is not even regarded as an addiction. It is entitlements addiction, the addiction to […]