Was the Fiscal Cliff Deal a Triumph Over Liberalism?
George Will thinks so. If you look at his logic -which involves the number of Democrats who voted to make most of the Bush tax rates permanent- it looks pretty solid (my bold emphasis). “I think people will look back on this [as a] deal where liberalism passed an effigy and went into decline for [...]
$1 Million Lotto Winner Still on Foodstamps: “I Thought it Was Okay, Since I’m Not Working”
24 year-old Amanda Clayton of Michigan experienced a life-changing event last fall: she won a million-dollar jackpot in the Michigan lottery. She bought a new house, and a new car. Things were looking up for her, but apparently it wasn’t good enough for her to stop taking $200 a month in food stamps from the [...]
From Now On, We’ll Just Use the Generic Phrase “Rally to Keep Gettin’ What the Government (or Somebody Else) Owes Me”
It has become a predictable pattern. Stimulus: Fiscally conservative-minded politician proposes constitutionally-based reforms of one kind or another, because that’s what most of the taxpaying citizens elected him/her to do -OR- conservative-minded activist group holds peaceful rally/demonstration/march to reiterate their desire to have smaller, less-intrusive government influence over their lives. Response: Left-leaning, union (or George Soros, [...]
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