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In The Daily Signal, Rachel Sheffield highlights some states that have taken the lead in reconnecting welfare programs (notably SNAP, or "food stamps"), with the inclusion of New England's own Maine: The decline in food stamp rolls between March and April of this year follows the
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Pamela Constable's Washington Post reflection on her conservative Connecticut WASP parents has been making the rounds on the right-wing Internet. Her personal connection with her parents is just that (personal), but the Baby Boomer journalist appears mainly to have become more comfortable with her parents' somewhat moderate
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When truly pressed to find some optimism in all the garbage of current events, I've sometimes fallen back to pointing out that there really isn't anything new. We've seen these pissant thugs before; they're part of the ebb and flow of history.
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As he usually does, Jonah Goldberg makes several worthy points in his most recent breezy G-File column, including some thoughts on socialism: … "socialism" was an answer to what 19th-century intellectuals and religious leaders called "the social question." As traditional societies succumbed to the creative destruction of
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If we're still permitted to say that something is "a guy thing," that's my excuse for disliking audio directions coming from a GPS device in the car. If more detail is required, I suppose it has to do with a preference for seeing a
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The administration of Rhode Island's Democrat Governor Gina Raimondo was in for a shock on Thursday, March 28, when it unveiled a new logo and slogan for the Ocean State. The state's quasi-public Commerce Corporation had been planning the release for months; the ridicule began on
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The public sphere has been a realm of echoing noise, lately, but through it all, readers may have picked up from time to time the notion of a universal basic income — that is, some system or other that guarantees every American a baseline level of money that allows them to
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Explaining why President Obama's policies are not, in general, socialist, but rather fascist, Thomas Sowell writes: What President Obama has been pushing for, and moving toward, is more insidious: government control of the economy, while leaving ownership in private hands. That way, politicians get to call the shots