Dominican Republican

I MUST confess to a sin, although among NATIONAL REVIEW readers it is probably more like a heresy: I have been, as recently as this year, a ward of the welfare state.

It wasn’t my fault. I slipped onto the dole without even realizing it, and I am happy to report that the experience had a reforming effect. That is, it convinced me once and for all that “public assistance” is a generally rotten idea, encouraging people to do generally rotten things.