Rhett Wilkinson is a senior at Utah State University. He is studying journalism and political science. The opinions expressed are his own. American Prospect editor Harold Meyerson opined for the Washington Post that there is “an Obama majority in American politics, symbolized by Monday’s throng on the Mall, whose existence is both the consequence of […]
Entitlements are…earned? [video]
December 12, 2012 by
Someone tell me this isn’t a scene from the movie version of Atlas Shrugged…
Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee (D-Texas) on the house floor “reminds” her collegues that entitlements are “earned.”
Are we in the midst of the rise of China and the decline of America? [graphs]
January 5, 2012 by
If these days and years will be seen as great, it will be because we will decide in coming months and years what course we will take, pass policies that reverse the trends and return America to its competitive edge and full solvency as the best investment in the world, or whether we will lapse into decline. Will we figure out a way to care for the poor and disadvantaged, to keep our promises to older generations, but refrain from pouring an unbearable burden on our children and grandchildren?
Or, perhaps better said: will we return America to a beacon on a hill, the leader of the free world? [cont…]
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