French Socialists Defeated

The French Socialist Party took heavy losses in local elections yesterday with national implications for its leader, President Francois Hollande. Only two years into his much ballyhooed presidency, Hollande’s More...

The Unbearable Lightness of Sandra Fluke

A red herring named Sandra Fluke floated through the murky waters of Congress last week, lured on by Nancy Pelosi before a mock hearing on the HHS contraception mandate. Miss Fluke’s testimony – as a law student More...

Pregnancy and Other Preventable Diseases

Time was when healthcare prevention was associated with smoke-cessation, dieting and exercise to avoid preventable diseases such as heart attacks, cancer and strokes. With the HHS mandate requiring contraception More...

Stryker, Taxes, The Super Committee and Growth

Obama’s Affordable Health Care Act of 2010 was paid for (in part) with an excise tax on implanted medical devices. The 2.3% excise tax goes into effect in 2013. It’s already causing some of those “unintended More...