Moynihan had it right.
Since 1965, the United States has spent approximately $17 trillion on anti-poverty programs – an amount almost identical to the balance on the national debt. Yet poverty rates remain essentially unchanged.
Since 1965, the United States has spent approximately $17 trillion on anti-poverty programs – an amount almost identical to the balance on the national debt. Yet poverty rates remain essentially unchanged.
No one on Earth today is threatened by radical Anglicans, Methodists, Presbyterians or Catholics. But as we have seen in just the past few days, we all have reason to fear radical Islamists.
Watching the full video of the horrific murder of a Jordanian pilot shatters any delusions that the West can somehow live with ISIS.
Other than looking great with her clothes off, what qualifies Jenny McCarthy to give advice about childhood immunization?
The majority of the economic growth cited by the president in his State of the Union address has happened in red states.
The portions of the speech dealing with the rich vis. a. vis. the middle class reveal in stark detail that Obama knows next to nothing about either.
Free community college for everybody is a bad idea because it will only serve as a devaluation of the currency that, for now at least, still attaches to a community college education.
Today’s Democratic Party has next to nothing in common with the middle class it so loudly proclaims to represent.
The “protesters” who have been chanting, “What do we want? Dead cops!” would be the first to cry racism if the police just decided to pull out of their neighborhoods and stop answering calls.
President Obama conceded to the dictator of Cuba all that he could possibly concede while getting nothing in return.
To hear race hustlers like Al Sharpton tell it, the streets of cities all over America are patrolled by white police officers who will use any excuse to abuse or kill a black man.
Many in the commentariat are saying that it would have been better if Ferguson, MO police officer Darren Wilson had been indicted and brought to trial even if ultimately exonerated at trial. This is flatly wrong.
Ivy Leaguers (not all but many) tend to consider themselves superior, particularly Ivy Leaguers who go on to careers in government. And right now our government is awash in Ivy Leaguers.
If you work hard, pay your bills, pay your taxes, raise your kids, go to church and make prudent choices about your life, to Jonathan Gruber, and those in his circle, you are an unsophisticated rube.
In 2010, President Obama promised that America would have a leadership role in space. Since then, he has effectively gutted NASA.
All of the soaring Obama speeches dating back to his keynote at the 2004 Democratic National Convention came crashing back to Earth on Election Day 2014.
No cult of personality can effectively or justly govern any nation, let alone a republic of 50 sovereign states and 315 million people.
If you want to understand why distrust of government is so high, the story of Amber Vinson might shed some light.
According to a Des Moines Register poll, in a hypothetical matchup, Mitt Romney beats Hillary Clinton 44 – 43, making Romney the only Republican with better numbers than Clinton.
Further litigation of same-sex marriage right now takes up precious bandwidth that could be used on issues we can still win.