People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.

Usually I write about what I care about, which is a weakness but I think also a strength.

I don't have any particular beef with Barbara Boxer. My beef is with the official Democratic doctrine that anybody who reaches Boxer's position has to spout and has to endorse.

If Americans are reluctant to go on the dole that's because they have a healthy work ethic.

Do we really want a society in which the stigma of going on the dole has been erased?

One danger, when you're writing lots of quick, opinionated blog items about the latest developments, is that you never get around to stating fully, in one place, what you think about a particular topic.

People have to eat and it's good to have a last-resort dole they can turn to.