Veterans Still Betrayed: Nothing has been Fixed at the VA

So far, only three senior executives have been fired despite corruption in at least a dozen VA facilities.

Read the complete article by Betsy McCaughey, Phd at BetsyMcCaughey.com.

See also: Fire the Real Boss of the VA, by Howard Hyde

Media Ignore 224 Teenagers Killed in Chicago Since Michael Brown's Death

Since August, Al Sharpton and MSNBC, CNN, the big three networks, and all the righteous protesters and Anonymous hacktivists have been using the death of Michael Brown as a basis to claim that our society is prejudiced against black teens. But since then 244 teens have been killed in Chicago, most of them black males, and not a word has been said about this death toll.

Read the complete article at Breitbart.com.

'Lost' IRS Emails Found

IRS Commissioner John Koskinen is pulling off the impossible task of destroying what little credibility that bureaucracy has left.

Read the complete article at The Wall Street Journal.

What's Wrong with our Health Care Safety Net?

In spite of California expecting to enroll 2.6 million additional low-income families in its Medicaid program this year, the total number of people with Medicaid coverage may actually go down. Why? Obamacare.

Read the complete article by John C. Goodman M.D. at Forbes.com.

For more on Health Care policy, see the Obamacare page.

Evangelicals with gay children challenging church

Christian parents of gay children are increasingly staying in the church and, in protesting what they see as the demonization of their sons and daughters, presenting a new challenge to Christian leaders trying to hold off growing acceptance of same-sex relationships.


Read the complete article at Kitsapsun.com.

Jonathan Gruber Called to Testify on Capitol Hill

Jonathan Gruber has been called to testify on Capitol Hill before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee in December, a hearing that will almost certainly turn into an airing of grievances over Obamacare and his statements about voter stupidity.

Read the complete article at Heartland.org.

HHCapitalism is now CitizenEcon.com!

Regular visitors to this site have noticed that we’ve had a makeover in the past few days, culminating with the launch of our new domain name CitizenEcon.com, the title ‘Citizen Economics’ and the byline ‘Because Every Voter must be a Citizen-Economist’. This represents our commitment to keeping you informed via the most thoughtful analyses of current events and educated in the principles of political economy that have the most relevance to the non-professional economist, the citizen-voter. This is the place for the informed lay person, the public official, the candidate for office, the workaday Joe and the entrepreneur alike to recharge their mental batteries and take charge of their destiny, in world full of politicians all too ready to promise you anything in exchange for your liberty, your prosperity and your culture.

California: The Land of Double Taxation for Small Businesses

Only 18 percent of the Democrats who control both houses of California’s full-time legislature worked in business, farming or medicine before being elected. The remainder drew paychecks from government, worked as community organizers, or were attorneys.

Read the complete article at California Political Review.

The US Government’s Assault on the American Economic System

Over the course of several generations, the US government has taxed away trillions upon trillions of dollars that otherwise would have been saved and invested and thereby added to the capital of the American economy.

Read the complete article by Dr. George Reisman at http://georgereismansblog.blogspot.com/2014/07/pikettys-capital-wrong_28.html.

WSJ: The Other Ferguson Tragedy

Homicide is the leading cause of death among young black men, and 90% of black murder victims are killed by other blacks.

Read the complete article by Jason Riley at The Wall Street Journal.

Beware of our Betters

Jonathan Gruber's several videotaped remarks about the gross deceptions that got ObamaCare passed in Congress should tell us a lot about the Obama administration.

Read the complete article by Thomas Sowell at TownHall.com.

Black by Popular Demand: Dr Walter E. Williams on Black Unemployment

The most popular post on HHCapitalism for the past 30 days, and 4th most popular in 8 years!

See: http://www.hhcapitalism.com/2014/10/dr-walter-e-williams-on-black.html.

Obamacare adviser warned of premium increases as Obama vowed savings

While President Obama campaigned on a promise that his universal health care plan would lower premiums, his controversial adviser and plan architect [Jonathan Gruber] was privately warning the state of Wisconsin that Obamacare was poised to massively increase insurance costs for average residents, internal documents show.

Read the full article at The Washington Times.

Obama’s Immigration Enablers

Regrettably, the Office of Legal Counsel’s made-to-order legal analysis is shockingly flawed in five major respects.

Read the full article by David B. Rivkin and Elizabeth Price Foley at The Wall Street Journal.

Thomas Piketty’s Policies On Economic Inequality Aren’t Selling

The idea that the rich get richer while everyone else doesn’t gets pretty wide agreement in the polls. So does the Democrats’ one redistributionist policy — raising the minimum wage. As a policy to address inequality, though, it’s rather pathetic.

Read the full article by Michael Barone at WesternJournalism.com.

Post-Midterm Obamacare Prognosis: Hold the Champagne

Conservatives and citizens concerned with the direction of the country under Democrat rule turned out in sufficiently large numbers on Election Day to return the Senate to Republican control. But if you think this marks the beginning of the end of Obamacare, think again.

Read the full article by Richard Amerling, M.D. at The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons.

Dodd-Frank: A Bad Law And A Big Mess

Dodd-Frank insulates regulators from democratic accountability. The Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, a creature of Dodd-Frank, is not even funded by our elected representatives, but instead gets financed directly from the Federal Reserve. Translation: If the “middle class” ever decides that Congress should relieve it of the CFPB’s ministrations, they will be unable to exert any influence.

Read the full article by Mona Charen at WesternJournalism.com.

Obamacare’s Jonathan Gruber and the Superhero Oath

Gruber has admitted that the 40 percent tax on “Cadillac” company insurance coverage was really a hidden way to tax affected workers while ensuring that employers would receive the blame for expensive plans. Every economist knows that who the tax is legally imposed on does not change who actually bears the burden. Gruber and others used this knowledge to mislead Americans into thinking someone else would pay, and so many supported a policy they would have opposed had they not been deceived.

Read the full article by Gary Galles at The Mises Institute.

The Obamacare Opportunities

The pending U.S. Supreme Court ruling on ObamaCare coupled with a small provision buried in the law could give Republicans in the new Congress the opportunity to power-boost free-market health reform.

Read the full article by Grace Marie Turner at The Galen Institute.

Scientific Misconduct: The Manipulation of Evidence for Political Advocacy in Health Care and Climate Policy

Science is increasingly being manipulated by those who try to use it to justify political choices based on their ethical preferences and who are willing to suppress evidence of conflict between those preferences and the underlying reality. This problem is clearly seen in two policy domains, health care and climate policy.

Read the complete article at The Cato Institute.