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.
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