The long-term cost of a welfare society is the infantilization of the population.

If you look at the range of Hollywood movies playing in most cities in the developing world, you'd hate the America they portray, too.

Last month, 80,000 Americans signed on to new jobs, but 85,000 Americas signed on for Social Security disability checks. Most of these people are not 'disabled' as that term is generally understood. Rather, it's the U.S. economy that's disabled, and thus Obama incentivizes dependency.

The senator's actions in the hours and days after emerging from that pond tell us something ugly about Kennedy the man. That he got away with it tell us something ugly about American public life.

For Al Gore and Paul Ehrlich and Co., whatever the problem, the solution is always the same. Whether it's global cooling, global warming, or overpopulation, we need bigger government, more regulation, higher taxes, and a massive transfer of power from the citizens to some unelected self-perpetuating crisis lobby.

Jesse Jackson's living depends on the maintenance of an African-American victim culture

Long before they slump into poverty, great powers succumb to a poverty of ambition.