Redistribution of Wealth

AMERICA’S EVER EXPANDING WELFARE EMPIRE

FORBES Apr. 22 2011 By PETER FERRARA A fundamental misconception about America’s welfare state misleads millions of voters to reflexively support ever bigger and more generous government. William Voegeli fingers the attitude in his book, Never Enough: America’s Limitless Welfare State: “no matter how large the welfare state, liberal politicians and writers have accused it

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OBAMA’S PERMANENT SPENDING BINGE

APRIL 22, 2011 If government got by with 20% of GDP in 2007, why not in 2021, when GDP will be substantially higher? By JOHN B. TAYLOR Palo Alto, Calif. Americans are clamoring for a fact-based debate about the budget, but the numbers they’re hearing from Washington are terribly confusing. Here’s an example: Speaking at

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REMEMBERING THE REAL AYN RAND

APRIL 14, 2011 The author of “Atlas Shrugged” was an individualist, not a conservative, and she knew big business was as much a threat to capitalism as government bureaucrats. By DONALD L. LUSKIN Tomorrow’s release of the movie version of “Atlas Shrugged” is focusing attention on Ayn Rand’s 1957 opus and the free-market ideas it

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ATHENS DESCENDS INTO ANARCHY

OPINION APRIL 13, 2011 Athens Descends Into Anarchy The real Greek disease is contempt for the law, and the political failure to combat it. By TAKIS MICHAS Athens Greece’s public debt may reach 150% of GDP this year, an alarming possibility that has captivated outside observers. But in the final analysis, the major issue confronting

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THE LEFT’S OBSESSION WITH THE KOCH BROTHERS

Published on The Weekly Standard (http://www.weeklystandard.com) The Paranoid Style in Liberal Politics The left’s obsession with the Koch brothers Matthew Continetti April 4, 2011, Vol. 16, No. 28 Wichita EXCERPT FROM THIS ARTICLE: Ah, but such is life when you and your brother are suddenly two of the most demonized men in American politics. For

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BEYOND THE WELFARE STATE

FROM ISSUE NUMBER 7 ~ SPRING 2011 Beyond the Welfare State YUVAL LEVIN EXCERPT FROM  THIS ARTICLE: But what seemed like the long-awaited triumph of the liberal agenda in America may actually prove to be its unraveling. When historians consider it in retrospect, the economic crisis of 2008 might well be seen as having marked

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SAMANTHA POWER’S POWER OVER OBAMA

NATIONAL REVIEW ONLINE www.nationalreview.com April 5, 2011 4:00 A.M. Samantha Power’s Power On the ideology of an Obama adviser by Stanley Kurtz Stanley Kurtz is a senior fellow at the Ethics and Public Policy Center, and the author of Radical-in-Chief. A member of the president’s National Security Council who shares Noam Chomsky’s foreign-policy goals? An

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AFTER THE WELFARE STATE

WALL STREET JOURNAL APRIL 5, 2011 After the Welfare State The moral price of dependence on government is even higher than the financial cost. By WILLIAM MCGURN That crashing sound you hear? It’s the sound of welfare states in collapse. From Albany to Athens, all but the dimmest observers now recognize that the model we’ve

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THE GOP PATH TO PROSPERITY

APRIL 5, 2011 The GOP Path to Prosperity Our budget cuts $6.2 trillion in spending from the president’s budget over the next 10 years and puts the nation on track to pay off our national debt. By PAUL D. RYAN Congress is currently embroiled in a funding fight over how much to spend on less

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