When one becomes so greatly enamored of the exercise of government power and so inured to the violation of individual rights as the vile Progressive Elitists have become, this is a very natural next step. The government has sponsored a number of academic analyses that attempted to paint as likely terrorists Tea Party individuals, Christian fundamentalists, veterans, those who believe in a constitutionally limited government, and those who believe we all have equal, sovereign individual rights to life, liberty, property, the ownership of our own bodies, minds, and labor, and to the pursuit of happiness. Meanwhile, they refuse to identify Muslims as a group likely to produce terrorists. The observation of repeated reality will not...

Jefferson was of the Democratic-Republican Party, which was dramatically changed by Andrew Jackson, who made it the Democratic Party.

In fairness to Ronald Reagan, it is by no means clear that he would have allowed the farm subsidies to last so long. It is also not specifically a Conservative issue to provide farm subsidies, though in the context of big government and given their base outside the cities, this is hardly surprising. When pragmatism, rather than principle rules, buying votes is the rule.

It has been pointed out that in years past, employment of 18 to 25 year olds has fallen drastically in September as students returned to college and gave up their summer jobs. Not this September or last September. I suspect three things are going on here. One is that these last two summers, many fewer students were able to find jobs in the summer, so the student drop in employment in September was much less due to them returning to college. Another effect is that with college expenses having increased much more than family incomes have for many years, many more students may have very part-time work-aid assignments at their colleges as part of their student-aid packages. Now the BLs may be counting these students as part-time employees.