Fifty years ago today, President Lyndon Johnson gave a speech at the University of Michigan in which he first proposed what he called the “Great Society.” So what of the Great Society on its 50th birthday? Sadly, there’s little to celebrate.
How many will die if the Department of Health & Human Services becomes to the U.S. general population what the Veterans Administration is to our military veterans?
If five years after graduating college your son or daughter is likely to be earning less than what a year of that college cost, you should be very concerned.
What if instead of Donald Sterling, it were you in his predicament? Don’t be quick to dismiss the possibility.
Governor Rick Perry had a bad night in 2012 during one of the countless Republican presidential debates. But he’s had a near perfect run as promoter-in-chief for the Lone Star State.
I’m thankful for Rolling Stone for making the never-ending task of coming up with material for these commentaries unbelievably easy.
Never in our lifetimes has the Dow Industrial Average been less reflective of the underlying economy than it is right now.
Seldom (as in up until now, never) do I agree with the National Labor Relations Board. But last week they got something right.
From the president on down, next to nobody in the executive branch of government has any executive experience. They know not. Yet they know not that they know not.
For all his failures as a candidate, it’s it is not terribly difficult for me to imagine Mitt Romney as a better president than Barack Obama.
Most wage and hour laws are now little more than anachronisms. The time of their necessity has long passed.
Unilateral force seems to be working quite well for Vladimir Putin. It appears that he believes that that force will remain unilateral.
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.
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.
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.
The Congressional Budget Office projects 2.5 million fewer fulltime workers by 2017 as a result of Obamacare.
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.
Year upon year upon year of middling poor national economic data is revealing proof of weak national leadership.
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.”
I believe in the sovereignty of the individual. Therefore I believe in personal responsibility. I believe in the duty of self help and in the freedom that flows from self-reliance.
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It is those STUPID commercials that is rotting our childrens brains and turning them into purple haired zombies!!!
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As a Democrat "friend" of mine once said: "Don't confuse me with the facts".
Yet they offer no plan