One’s Break is Another’s Tax Burden: Here’s a rogue’s gallery of local outfits that happily take what the system gives.

Barack Obama, in his newfound role as patriarch-in-chief, has been lecturing the American family on the evils of selfishness. Pedestrian pursuits of individual happiness must forever be subordinated to the idea of “shared responsibility,” a favorite presidential buzzword. Continue reading →

There seems to be a growing chasm within the GOP as to what ‘conservatism’ really means. The critics of Ron Paul have derided his emphasis on individual rights, preferring a softer version of ‘compassionate conservatism.” Now, Rick Santorum has let the cat out of the bag with a full throated assault on ‘llibertarianism’ itself. Well, who better to set the record straight than the Gipper himself. You decide. Continue reading →

Leave it to Al Gore to inspire a really bad idea.

As you may recall, the petulant presidential candidate lost the 2000 election, only to narrowly win the popular vote. That quirk (it had happened three times before) was all the popular-vote movement needed to get going. Continue reading →

Fifty one years after a young president from Massachusetts delivered a stirring inaugural address on a frigid day in the nation’s capital, contemporary politicians still aspire to the Kennedy mystique. Continue reading →