Time magazine gets a clue on welfare, and advocates "creating livelihoods."

Don't call back Congress; encourage them to stay out on vacation!

It is beautiful, shiny, and impressive, and not entirely valueless - but nothing like as glorious as it appears.

What if the stadium is empty? If there are too many empty seats on TV, I'll lose my head. What to do...?

Don't hold your breath.

Solzhenitsyn warned of "an atmosphere of moral mediocrity, paralyzing man's noblest impulses."

Ingrid Betancourt has learned that there are some people you just don't negotiate with.

The fame of the TSA has become so great that Japanese shoppers twelve thousand miles away know just how they treat your luggage.

We have to increase regulation and government intervention of finance. Don't we?

Merely to exist is to have an open-ended right to claim goods and services paid for by other people's efforts?