These days, government employees are better off in almost every area: pay, benefits, time off and security, on top of working fewer hours.

Americans cannot maintain their essential faith in government if there are two Americas, in which the private sector's work subsidizes the disproportionate benefits of this new public sector elite.

Fewer Americans are at work today than in April 2000, even though the population since then has grown by 31 million.

He does what he thinks God would do if God only knew the facts.

Surely, if Mother Nature had been consulted, she would never have consented to building a city in New Orleans.

Natural erosion had reduced the critical barrier islands in the Gulf, the result of the destruction of some 300,000 acres of wetlands. This amounted to 30 miles of marshlands.

These days the American dream of home ownership has turned into a nightmare for millions of families. They wake every day to the reality of a horrible decline in the value of the home that has meant so much to them.