Does this economy make me look weak?
Year upon year upon year of middling poor national economic data is revealing proof of weak national leadership.
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The 50 year war.
The poverty rate in America stands essentially unchanged from its level on this day 50 years ago. If nothing else, the War of Poverty has proved the words of the scripture in which Jesus said, “The poor you will always have with you.”
Feeding His flock.
Recently, in an apostolic statement Pope Francis said, in effect, that capitalism is OK with him on the condition that we feed the poor. I say, with all deference to the Holy Father, that we can feed the poor only on the condition that we have capitalism.
Boomers: ‘Sorry, but we spent all the money.’
America’s post-war wealth is now gone and in its place stands a mountain of debt that our kids will shoulder all the way to their graves.
If you want peace, prepare for war.
The United States did not seek the role of defender of world peace. We were doomed to it by the events of the mid 20th century.
Dems for repeal.
Good policy is good politics and the best possible policy is to get this horrendous law off the books as quickly as possible.
Obamacare: As unnecessary as it is unworkable.
Liberals imagine that a large population must have the oversight and control of a small, highly-educated circle of elites. From such imaginings emerge bad ideas like Obamacare.
Read my lips. You can keep your health plan.
Until Obamacare went “live,” most people viewed the debate on health care as purely political and mostly abstract. Now it’s real and the reality is causing heartburn for the Obama administration.
Obamacare is only a symptom.
Whether articulated in these terms or not, what we are seeing is what happens when a small number of elites presume to impose upon us their priorities at the expense of those of the majority.
Why do the Dems get a pass on the “shutdown?”
If journalism were functioning in America, the reporting would go beyond the ‘gotcha’ politics of the moment and would drill down into the actual substance of what separates the parties.
Boehner digs in.
One might forgive the president for standing firm on Obamacare, his signature legislative achievement. But there can be no forgiving his intransigence with respect to the rest of the federal budget.
Jabba vs. Mt. Rushmore.
That the vast majority of federal spending proceeds apace during what is laughingly called a shutdown is testament to the fact that federalism as envisioned by the founders has long slipped its constitutional moorings.