1850 travel ad. Drive carefully, readers, this holiday weekend. We cannot afford to lose a single one of you.
More Americans Will Use Food Stamps For Thanksgiving This Year Than Ever Before
Mexico rising fast in car manufacturing
Twinkie strikers: Would you hire these people?
Airports: Airfields of Dreams - If you build it, they won’t come.
More on how government usually gets it wrong: How France Built Inequality Into Its Cities
The time to buy a second home in Spain could be soon
Nyquist: The Market, Socialism and the Justice System
Even British Journalists Are Beginning to Acknowledge that Guns Deter Crime
Social Security:
“[F]inally, beginning in 1949. . . you and your employer will each pay 3 cents on each dollar you earn, up to $3,000 a year. That is the most you will ever pay.”
A Brief, Illustrated History of the Public Sector Unions That, Together With The Democrat Party, Are Waging War on the Taxpayer
Privately run unions have ruined public schools, critics say.
“Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to cash welfare checks…”
Get 'em hooked while they're still new, young, and innocent. Once the needle goes in, it never comes out.
Keeping America Safe: Homeland Security Is Promoting Welfare to New Immigrants
Douthat:
What unites all of these stories is the growing failure of America’s local associations — civic, familial, religious — to foster stability, encourage solidarity and make mobility possible.
This is a crisis that the Republican Party often badly misunderstands, casting Democratic-leaning voters as lazy moochers or spoiled children seeking “gifts” (as a certain former Republican presidential nominee would have it) rather than recognizing the reality of their economic struggles.
But if conservatives don’t acknowledge the crisis’s economic component, liberalism often seems indifferent to its deeper social roots. The progressive bias toward the capital-F Future, the old left-wing suspicion of faith and domesticity, the fact that Democrats have benefited politically from these trends — all of this makes it easy for liberals to just celebrate the emerging America, to minimize the costs of disrupted families and hollowed-out communities, and to treat the places where Americans have traditionally found solidarity outside the state (like the churches threatened by the Obama White House’s contraceptive mandate) as irritants or threats.
Cows Flee California Seeking a Better Economic Climate
Where's the coverage? The Turkish war on the Kurds
Church Leader Shows Where Anti-Israel and Anti-Semitic Merge
I Guess The Antisemites And Anti-Israel Nuts Have To Boycott Facebook Now
NGO Factual and Legal Distortions on Gaza “Media Center” Attacks
Pallywood: 1. Kill your own children. 2. Pose and photograph the corpses. 3. Blame Israel. 4. Distribute to naive Western journalists. 5. Repeat.
