Berkeley: The Confluence of Myopic Idealism and Reality
Young, enormously privileged college students are yet again exercising their latest favored entitlement: Fomenting mass unrest and destroying property because they just don’t feel they should have to...
View ArticleGovernment Health Care Is Not About Health Care; It’s About Government
Lori Ziganto’s latest article at RedState: “Government Health Care is not about health care; It’s about Government.” So reads the last line of Mark Steyn’s latest brilliant article, which I strongly...
View ArticleHealth Care: a Culture Issue
Despite the successful (kind of, sort of) passage of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi health care bill, the debate is far from over, it seems, and the underlying issues will only become more incendiary: the...
View ArticleFidel Castro Congratulates Obama for Health Care Bill
Will the naysayers who have been complaining about the passage of Obamacare — the most massive expansion of the welfare state in 45 years – be silenced by the revelation that the President’s plan has...
View ArticleReminder: Dependence Isn’t Compassion
If you didn’t have to work for a living, would you? Obviously, many Americans would answer with a resounding “no,” but Washington, DC can’t seem to figure it out. Reihan Salam has a Daily Beast piece...
View ArticleFrom the Writings of David Horowitz: June 8, 2010
Back in the 1960s, with America’s black ghettos exploding into violence, the architects of Lyndon Johnson’s Great Society argued that the best way to stop the rioting would be to pump money into the...
View ArticleThe Welfare State and the Selfish Society
In the contemporary world, where left-wing attitudes are regarded as normative, it is a given that capitalism, with its free market and profit motive, emanates from and creates selfishness, while...
View ArticleThe Left-Wing Agenda and Race Retrogression
One of the things that turned up, during a long-overdue cleanup of my office, was an old yellowed copy of the New York Times dated July 24, 1992. One of the front-page headlines said: “White-Black...
View ArticleEleventh Commandment: Thou Shall Support the Welfare State
As a candidate for the presidency, George W. Bush took heat for supposedly saying something like, “God wanted me to become president.” He never said that. But no matter. Here comes another yet another...
View ArticleBig Lies in Politics
The fact that so many successful politicians are such shameless liars is not only a reflection on them, it is also a reflection on us. When the people want the impossible, only liars can satisfy them,...
View ArticleIs This the Year We Recognize the Failure of Progressivism?
This year is looking more and more like one of those “years of decision” that have marked profound crises and changes in American history. I’m speaking not just about the presidential election, or...
View Article$61,194 in Welfare Spending for Every Poor Household
What the class warriors know and their critics often don’t understand is that the real welfare queens aren’t the ones shouting about voting for Obama because they’re getting free phones. They’re the...
View ArticleShowdown in America: Workers vs. the Welfare State
The 2012 presidential election is coming down to a contest between those who want the economy to succeed and those who want it to go on failing. Hope and Change is dead, at least the brand that...
View ArticleWhat to Expect in the Next Four Years
Americans have narrowly voted to reelect a president who will continue policies that will — not may — eventually lead to the downfall of the American republic. The Tuesday election was a crushing...
View ArticleFreeloaders or Free Country?
Defeats are never easy to take and yet every defeat is a necessary learning experience. Reading the memoirs of the greatest athletes and generals, you discover that they learned more from their defeats...
View Article1/4 of New York City’s Homeless People Come for the Free Stuff
Social welfare is a magnet. Extend it, and they will come. Extend it carelessly and they will really come. “People pay $3,000 for an apartment here, and I get to live here for free!” said Michal...
View ArticleTsarnaev Clan Received $100K Welfare, Now Getting Free Lawyers
The welfare train never stops for Muslim terrorists. First the Tsarnaev family received over $100,000 in social welfare benefits for enriching our culture with their thievery and terrorism. The...
View ArticleWill Amnestied Illegal Aliens Bankrupt New Jersey and California?
Amnesty for illegal aliens will hit five states hardest: California, Texas, New Jersey, Florida and Nevada. Those are the states with some of the highest percentages of illegal aliens. Amnesty, as...
View ArticleWhat’s Wrong with Sweden?
Europe is slowly committing suicide, but Sweden is plainly determined to do itself in faster than the rest. Earlier this month, on a visit to Lagos, Nigeria, Sweden’s Minister of Finance, a fellow...
View ArticleLondon Spends More on Welfare than the Entire UK Spends on Defense
Liberals like to claim that if we only spent as much on welfare, housing for the homeless, education and the whole package as we do on all our missiles and battleships, then we wouldn’t need the...
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