This week, a growing list of national and state-based organizations sent a letter to Congress asking them to preserve the Medicare Part D program. The Patriots’ Project adds its support to this initiative because we must continue to support free markets and competition in the healthcare sector: Dear Congressman/Senator: Legitimate concerns over an exploding federal [...]

Republicans have been looking for a way to “reach out” to more voters. They can do that, and make the libertarian-leaning Tea Party movement happy by joining Democrats in an effort to protect our e-mail from being searched by government without a warrant, as is currently “legal” under federal law. Of course, whether this is [...]

Steve Chapman had a thought provoking column on November 15 at Reason, and he makes a good point – it is time to scrap the Electoral College. It’s an anachronism and it has gotten to the point that it is anti-democratic. This particular election underscored the absurdity of the system. We have a national election [...]

Without evidence of corruption or gross incompetence, the President should have the ability to appoint whoever they want for positions in their administration. The Senate may reserve the right to block a nominee, but most of them should go forward. This is why I think it was a mistake for Republicans to block IU law [...]

The American Action Network has decided to hit the ground running with a new campaign encouraging our legislators to address the fiscal cliff. They have produced the video below featuring Doug Holtz-Eakin, former director of the Congressional Budget Office, to draw attention to this critical issue: This video is just the launch of a campaign [...]

by Leo Morris State Senate President Pro Tem David Long is warning Hoosiers of the wanton savagery likely to be visited upon us by the vicious residents of adjacent states. “There is an all-out assault on the system that Indiana has implemented, which was to take other people’s money,” Long told The Times of Munster. [...]

We have written before about one of the success stories in our healthcare system: Medicare Part D. Medicare Part D works because competition and free markets work to keep prices down. Paul Howard, Director of the Manhattan Institute’s Center for Medical Progress, writes in MedicalProcessToday.com: The President is always talking about the need to invest [...]

There’s something mesmerizing about watching Wile E Coyote heading for a cliff – we see it, he doesn’t. You only need hear the sound clip and you know what is coming. Let’s hope Congress isn’t mesmerized by the approaching fiscal cliff and lulled into making some bad decisions that could leave our economy in something [...]

by Cecil Bohanon, Ph.D. The 17-century French finance minister Jean-Baptiste Colbert is reported to have said “the art of taxation is plucking the feathers from the goose with as little hissing as possible.” With this in mind consider a “rich” taxpayer that we’d like to pluck “just a little bit more.” Let’s set up a shill [...]

The Indiana Democrat Party has a few planning items to take care of for the next couple years. Find a bench and find it quickly. Find a State Chair who isn’t Vi Simpson. And move to a place where their only hope isn’t Evan Bayh running back to town to run for Governor in 2016. [...]