Walter E Williams: Can Our Union Be Saved?

National debt is over $14 trillion, the federal budget deficit is $1.4 trillion and, depending on whose estimates are used, the unfunded liability or indebtedness of the federal government (mostly in the form of obligations for Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and prescription drugs) is estimated to be between $60 and $100 trillion.  MORE

VIDEO: Social Security, a retrospective

Just how was Social Security sold to the American people? A look back in time with commentary by Milton Friedman and Walter E Williams.

Tea Party Must Embrace Individualism as a Moral Ideal

To deliver on its promise to restore lost freedoms, the tea party must anchor its work in Ayn Rand's understanding that all schemes that sacrifice the individual to society are morally wrong.  ARTICLE