Socialism as Substitute Community
Alienated people are turning to Marx and Ocasio-Cortez.
The Girl Who Sank Hillary
Council Bluffs, Iowa –“He has a good exit strategy for getting us out of the war with honor,” says Bob Krivanek, standing beneath a Joe Biden sign in a corner ...
Edwardian Reality
Des Moines, Iowa–Tim Robbins (a.k.a. Merlin from Top Gun), had pumped up the crowd, and John Edwards knew how to blow the top off the auditorium at Nathan Weeks Middle ...
Rich Truths
Editor’s note: The following is adapted from Chapter 2 of The Big Ripoff: How Big Business and Big Government Steal Your Money, released this week from John Wiley & Sons.
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I Am Jack Bauer
Agency chiefs and Cabinet secretaries usually try to be discreet about their jealousies, resentments, and grudges towards other departments and agencies in the federal government. On Friday, however, Homeland Security ...
Death to Corporate Welfare
Frank Keating, former conservative Republican governor of Oklahoma, might just save the death tax this week.
With a vote to repeal permanently the federal estate tax slated for this week, Republican ...
Chafee’s Choices
If there was ever any doubt, Sen. Lincoln Chafee’s vote Wednesday against the nomination of Priscilla Owen has made it clear that, save for leadership numbers games, conservatives would not ...
Paint It Blackwell
Unlike the Jesse Jackson-led Democratic convulsions after the 2000 election was settled, Thursday’s shenanigans on the House floor were not primarily an effort to delegitimize George W. Bush’s presidency. ash
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Thank You, Arlen
Rick Santorum and George W. Bush told us that the GOP needed Arlen Specter. We needed Arlen Specter to deliver Pennsylvania for Bush. We needed Arlen Specter to boost the ...
The Gop’s Apathy Problem
Orlando, Fla.–Debra McCall earns $16,000 a year and considers herself a success story. A black woman, she left Chicago three years ago, and gave up her welfare check. Now she ...