The vanishing margin of safety.
Unilateral force seems to be working quite well for Vladimir Putin. It appears that he believes that that force will remain unilateral.
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To be unready for war is to invite one.
Five years in to the Obama administration, the president has never proposed shrinking any part of the federal government — except the clearly constitutional function of defending the peace.
The real minimum wage: $0.00.
When it comes to things they oppose, Democrats well understand that when you raise the price of something you get less of it. But then they come to the minimum wage and that understanding vanishes.
We may wind up being glad Obamacare passed.
Whatever else happens with Obamacare, one thing is fairly certain. The next proposed big-government solution to a real or perceived big societal problem is likely to be met with considerable skepticism.
CBO: Fewer fulltime workers under Obamacare.
The Congressional Budget Office projects 2.5 million fewer fulltime workers by 2017 as a result of Obamacare.
Wendy Davis’s inauthentic authenticity.
What emerges from Wendy Davis’s story and its discrepancies is that she embellished or outright fabricated parts of her story to make it more appealing to her base.
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.
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.