It's simply common sense that the nicer a life you have if you don't work, the more people will choose not to work and the pickier they will be about what job they might be willing to accept.

So near and yet so far!

A capitalist will sell you the rope to hang himself.

Hillary believes herself to be a better candidate for the Democrats, and a better President for the country, than Barack Obama.

Illegal immigrants HAVE NO CIVIL RIGHTS. In fact, legal immigrants have no civil rights. Just ask the dictionary...

The problem for McCain is that he himself has depicted lobbyists as being the Devil Incarnate.

Barack Obama has made an original contribution to the debate over gun control.

Sometimes being a "maverick" isn't as glorious as one thinks it will be.

Anyone who thinks there is anything Americans cannot or will not do has lost faith in the American people, and is unfit to lead them.

The conservatives have rightly complained about the fiasco that was the CNN/YouTube debate, to say nothing of Chris Matthews' execrable moderating. Now the shoe is on the other foot, and it doesn't fit any better on that side.