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Paul Ryan Should Not Support Trump May. 11, 2016
The push back against Donald Trump is about far more than Republican "elites" at war with Republican... Read More
Our Democrat Welfare-State Drug Lords Oct. 21, 2015
Five liberal Democrat presidential candidates — one actually honest enough to label himself a ... Read More
Report: States Bilking Millions From Food Stamp Program Oct. 14, 2015
A certain amount of fraud is to be expected in large government benefits programs, but the fraud usu... Read More
Taxing Peter to Improperly Pay Paul (or His Corpse) Apr. 13, 2015
Taxes are obviously on everybody's mind this time of year, which makes it the perfect time to ask wh... Read More
King of the World on $14 an Hour Aug. 11, 2014
The minimum wage, federal or state, did not come down from the mountain with Moses. It is not engrav... Read More
Lower Benefits, Higher Jobs -- Paul Ryan Has It Right Aug. 09, 2014
Co-written by Robert Sinche Neel Kashkari, the Republican candidate for governor of California, just... Read More
Was Cochran's Win Good for Blue America? Jul. 01, 2014
From the happy reports, you'd think that liberals had only to celebrate the tea party's recent Missi... Read More
Obama's Income Inequality Scam Apr. 25, 2014
One of the many ironies surrounding President Obama is that for all his harping on income inequality... Read More
In Richest US Community, 31 Percent Work for Government Apr. 23, 2014
Those who live in this nation's richest county and those who live its poorest have an important thin... Read More
86M Full-Time Private-Sector Workers Sustain 148M Benefit Takers Apr. 16, 2014
Buried deep on the website of the U.S. Census Bureau is a number every American citizen, and especia... Read More
Did Richard Nixon Really Try to Sink Social Security? Apr. 02, 2014
I have more than a few friends, all retired Social Security Administration employees like me, who wi... Read More
Make Work Pay More Mar. 11, 2014
"It is time to give America a raise," President Barack Obama proclaimed in support of his proposal t... Read More
How the Rich Became Dependent on Government Welfare Feb. 28, 2014
Remember when President Obama was lambasted for saying "you didn't build that"? Turns out he was rig... Read More
End of the Line for the Welfare State? Feb. 11, 2014
The Congressional Budget Office did not exactly say Obamacare would cost the nation 2.5 million jobs... Read More
History Lesson for the President Jan. 15, 2014
Congressional speeches are generally hot air: politicians blathering to a largely empty chamber. But... Read More
Income Inequality and Unemployment Benefits Jan. 11, 2014
Dear Mark: In the last month, I've been hearing the term "income inequality" bandied about... Read More
Minimum Wage and Welfare: The Tradeoff Jan. 07, 2014
The Democrats have selected raising the minimum wage as THE issue to protect them from public opposi... Read More
Social Security Gets More Politically Secure Dec. 24, 2013
Proposals to raise Social Security benefits are a refreshing antidote to portrayals of the program a... Read More
The American Welfare State Dec. 06, 2012
Throughout the presidential campaign, Republican candidates pointed to the number of food stamp reci... Read More
Depending on Dependency Sep. 09, 2012
The theme that most seemed to rouse the enthusiasm of delegates to the Democratic National Conventio... Read More
