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Last week Ron Lieber wrote an article for the New York Times outlining the chasm between the retirements of public employees and regular people. Lieber warns of a “class war” because public and union employees generally enjoy defined benefit pensions, while most everyone else is responsible for his own retirement savings through such vehicles as [...]


Last week, Pres. Obama touted GM’s triumphant turnaround by driving a $41,000 Impala a few feet and claiming that the GM bailout saved a million jobs. Obama is fond of saying he saved jobs because he cannot claim that he created any. ‘It could have been worse’ used to be the slogan for perennial losers, [...]


I don’t want the folks who created the mess to do a lot of talking. I want them to get out of the way so we can clean up the mess. I don’t mind cleaning up after them, but don’t do a lot of talking. Pres. Obama, August 6, 2009 Pres. Obama’s illiberal penchant for [...]