These days, being seen as a victim can be useful. You immediately claim the moral high ground. Some people want to help you. Lawyers and politicians brag that they force others to help you. This turns some people into whiners with little sense of responsibility. Joe Biden's niece was arrested recently for throwing a punch at a cop. ... MORE
Thoughts on the food stamps debate. Throughout history, politicians have fabricated crises to justify their
own solution to the crisis they themselves dreamed up. History is strewn
with non-existent crises – the population bomb, global cooling,
resource depletion, freon destroying the ozone layer, and so on – that
threaten ... MORE
On excuse-making and dependency. Sometimes I wonder when black people will reject the patronizing insults of white progressives and their black handmaidens. After CNN's Piers Morgan's interview with the key witness in the George Zimmerman trial, he said: "Rachel Jeantel is not uneducated. She's a smart cookie." That's a remarkable ... MORE
by Alaj Makan and Abeer Allam. Prince Alwaleed bin Talal, the billionaire Saudi Arabian investor, has warned that his country’s oil-dependent economy is increasingly vulnerable to competition from the US shale revolution, setting him at odds with his country’s oil ministry and Opec officials. In an open letter addressed to Ali Naimi, ... MORE
The results are in. Someone did an experiment to test an old tale — that a frog placed in a pot of cool water, which is then slowly and continuously heated, will be boiled to death. By contrast, if thrown directly into scalding hot water, the frog jumps out. But it turns out that, no, once the water got hot enough, the critter hopped out ... MORE
A dysfunctional system on trial. As if more evidence were needed about the tragedy of black education, Rachel Jeantel, a witness for the prosecution in the George Zimmerman murder trial, put a face on it for the nation to see. Some of that evidence unfolded when Zimmerman's defense attorney asked 19-year-old Jeantel to read a letter ... MORE
Food stamp recruiter must enroll 150 per month. A Florida food stamp recruiter is tasked with enrolling at least 150 senior citizens in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program a month, The Washington Post reports in a profile about SNAP outreach. Following 56 year old recruiter Dillie Nerios perform her task, to appeal to seniors to get them ... MORE
Food stamp recipients increased 11,113 per day. One way to mark the legacy of a presidency is to tally statistics, and at least one stat is not very flattering for President Obama: the number of Americans on food stamps has grown by 11,133 people every day during his first term. In 2009, when Obama took office, recipients of SNAP ... MORE
by Andrew Napolitano. Only in America can a president who inherits a deep recession and whose policies have actually made the effects of that recession worse get re-elected. Only in America can a president who wants the bureaucrats who can't run the Post Office to micromanage the administration of every American's health care get re-elected. ... MORE
The power to prosper. I have, earlier in my life, been simultaneously a
student, mother, employee, chauffeur, and
jack-of-all-family-related-trades, so I know how difficult it can be to
attend to all issues during a campaign season. However, it is especially concerning to me to hear women,
especially young women, announcing their intentions to ... MORE
Freedom works. Americans coast to coast are victimized daily by an onslaught of hate
and intolerance. But to Van Jones’s dismay, it’s not coming from the
Tea Party movement. Race traitor, Uncle Tom, sell-out, racist, bigot. These are the names that fiscal conservatives, including
ourselves, encounter daily from members of the liberal ... MORE
"There are no jobs!" That is what people told me outside a government "jobs center" in New York City. To check this out, I sent four researchers around the area. They quickly found 40 job openings. Twenty-four were entry-level positions. One restaurant owner told me he would hire 12 people if workers would just apply. It made me wonder what my ... MORE