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Job Creators Who Wont Hire The Unemployed

As President Obama hits the road on his jobs agenda bus tour, millions of individuals trying to re-enter the job market, seeking to eke out a modest living so that they too can live the American Dream – or what’s left of it anyway – are stuck in a rut. They write...

Why Pawlenty Went Bust

In 2007, I attended the biggest conservative annual confab, CPAC. One speaker after another tried to outdo each other for the biggest tall tale, the loudest embrace of Reagan or the most outrageous slander of liberals. But one speaker sought to challenge conservative...

Look Out Here Comes the ‘Feral Underclass’

What made last week's rioting in London all the more 'achingly sad'? The rioters weren't challenging greed. They were celebrating it. We really need to understand why. Oppressed people riot. Oppression and rioting have gone together for millennia. But the young...

Newt Does It Again

It's come to this. As much as it pains me to say it, I wish we had more Republicans who think like Newt Gingrich. It pains me even more to say this, but I wish we had more Democrats who like Newt Gingrich. Ah, but I should be more specific. I wish we had more...

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