The previous congressional majority managed to jam Obamacare down the throats of an increasingly resistant nation. Now the fight against Obamacare may have delivered a shock to the system that goes beyond this single issue. Public-opinion polls consistently reveal an extremely poorly informed public with no coherent commitment to reducing the role of Big Government. Read More

WHAT: In the biggest Medicare arrest sweep yet, federal authorities charged 111 doctors, nurses and physical therapists in nine cities with more than $225 million Medicare fraud. Indictments were issued from Los Angeles to Brooklyn. Read More

President Obama insisted Tuesday that he did not duck the tough choices in his budget proposal for 2012, which was widely panned for doing too little to reduce the federal deficit and nothing to address budget-busting problems with entitlement programs such as Medicare and Social Security. "Nobody is more mindful than me that entitlements are going to be a key part of this issue," Obama said during his first press conference of the Read More