The entitlement states steals from future generations. The election-eve mood is tinged with sadness stemming from well-founded
fear that America’s new government is subverting America’s old
character. Barack Obama’s agenda is a menu of temptations intended to
change the nation’s social norms by making Americans comfortable with
the degradation ... MOREGeorge Will: Mugging Our Descendants
The entitlement states steals from future generations. The election-eve mood is tinged with sadness stemming from well-founded
fear that America’s new government is subverting America’s old
character. Barack Obama’s agenda is a menu of temptations intended to
change the nation’s social norms by making Americans comfortable with
the degradation ... MORE$60,000 In Welfare Spent Per Household In Poverty
by Daniel Halper. New data compiled by the Republican side of the Senate Budget Committee
shows that, last year, the United States spent over $60,000 to support
welfare programs per each household that is in poverty. The calculations
are based on data from the Census, the Office of Management and Budget,
and the Congressional Research Services. ... MORERobert Moffit & Alyene Senger: MediCare's 'Efficiency'
Private insurance has lower administrative costs. Everybody “knows” that government agencies are more efficient than private health insurance at delivering medical benefits and services. After all, Medicare’s administrative costs, at roughly 2 percent of the cost of benefits, are lower than those of private insurance. In the first presidential ... MOREVoter Initiatives Breathe New Life Into Federalism
by J.D. Tuccille. There's an important constitutional issue on ballots across the country next month, but it's not labeled by its name anywhere that it appears. That issue encompasses concerns traditionally considered both conservative and liberal, even if it is embraced oh-so-selectively by its newfound friends. That's right, federalism ... MOREPolice Union Intimidates California City Council
Shameless tactics by law enforcement unions. Many people were outraged this summer after a private investigator, with ties to a law firm that represents 120 police unions in California, made an apparently false report to the cops claiming that a councilman in the Orange County, California, city of Costa Mesa stumbled out of a bar drunk and ... MORETop Court To Hear Arguments Over Government Spying
by Terry Barnes. A debate over how freely the U.S. government can eavesdrop on international communications reaches a climax on Monday in the country's highest court. At issue is a law passed by Congress in 2008 allowing the government to monitor the overseas communications of individuals without obtaining a warrant for each target. ... MORE
"The New Economic Patriotism" Is Not A Jobs Plan
by David Harsanyi. Fear not; Barack Obama has an economic plan for America, and it's all in a glossy brochure, called "The New Economic Patriotism: A Plan for Jobs & Middle-Class Security"—an antidote, we're told, to the vagueness of Mitt Romney's agenda. This is what the president, according to a campaign official, believes will ensure ... MORE
Brian Domitrovic: Inequality Is The Child Of Fiat Money
The Federal Reserve is the problem. For a while there, it looked like the 2012 election was going to be a referendum on economic inequality. This would have been weird, in that economic growth and its twin, employment, are the clear issues of choice in these years of torpid economic recovery. Had President Obama succeeded in making ... MORE
Supreme Court To Determine Legality Of Reselling
Testing the boundaries of copyright laws. All eyes will be on Justice Elena Kagan on Monday, when the Supreme Court considers a copyright case that some fear could prevent people from reselling certain products they own such as the iPhone, as she may have the deciding vote. In a case that tests the boundaries of copyright law, ... MORE
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