Entitlement Attitude on Townhall
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Why Do Societies Give Up? Thu Feb 14Victor Davis HansonHundreds of reasons have been adduced for the fall of Rome and the end of the Old Regime in 18th-century France. Reasons run from inflation and excessive spending to resource depletion and enemy invasion, as historians attempt to understand the sudden collapse of the Mycenaeans, the Aztecs and, apparently, the modern Greeks. In literature from Catullus to Edward Gibbon, wealth and leisure -- and who gets the most of both -- more often than poverty and exhaustion implode civilization. ... more
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Michael BaroneIt's often good fun and sometimes revealing to divide American history into distinct periods of uniform length. ... more
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No Entitlements Wed Dec 12Cal ThomasWhile the U.S. unemployment rate "dropped" to 7.7 percent last month -- a figure even The Washington Post acknowledged was due "...in large part because the labor force fell by 350,000..." -- here in this modern and prosperous city-state of slightly more than 5 million people, unemployment is practically nonexistent. ... more
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The American Welfare State Fri Dec 7Linda ChavezThroughout the presidential campaign, Republican candidates pointed to the number of food stamp recipients -- increasing from 33 million people in 2009 to 43 million in 2012 -- as a sign that poverty had skyrocketed under President Obama. But a new study suggests that the reason there has been such an increase in food stamp recipients during the last four years is even more pernicious. ... more
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The Mysterious Stranger Thu Dec 6Emmett TyrrellWashington-Jeffrey Hillman is a man who shambles the streets of New York City looking quite unkempt, drab, and hopeless. He panhandles sometimes and mutters to himself. Frankly, he looks a wreck and apparently is often in need of a pair of shoes. On cold winter nights he gets them. ... more
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A Flip-Flops President Tue Nov 13Bill MurchisonWe mighta, coulda, woulda, shoulda, still-some-day-may elect a president serious about the matter of the nation's freedoms. ... more
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AmericaAEI: "In "A Nation of Takers," author Nicholas Eberstadt of the American Enterprise Institute draws on an impressive array of data to detail the exponential growth in America's entitlement spending..." ... more
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On the Road to Greece? Thu Nov 8Mallory Carr
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Katie Pavlich
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Katie Pavlich
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Michelle MalkinDemocrats need to change their party mascot from the donkey to the squirrel. They divert the media's and the electorate's short attention spans with fleeting, fuzzy objects -- like the main canine character in the animated Pixar movie "Up," who was easily distracted from his main thoughts and serious duties by every last little moving trifle. ... more
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Kevin Glass
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Depending on Dependency Wed Sep 12Thomas SowellThe theme that most seemed to rouse the enthusiasm of delegates to the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte was that we are all responsible for one another -- and that Republicans don't want to help the poor, the sick and the helpless. ... more
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The Democrats' Fake Freedoms Wed Sep 12Jacob SullumSandra Fluke's claim to fame, aside from provoking Rush Limbaugh's misogynistic ire, is that she chose to attend Georgetown Law School, knowing full well that the Catholic university's student health plan did not cover birth control, and then demanded that the policy be changed, under force of law, as a matter of "reproductive justice." ... more
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Kate Hicks
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Kate Hicks
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New YorkWelfare isn't working. Bill O'Reilly, Mary Katharine Ham and Juan Williams discuss the issue. ... more
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Scott RasmussenMany Republicans talk of an entitlement mentality that threatens the character and finances of the United States. In their view, the problem is that too many voters feel entitled to goodies provided by the government and financed by taxpayers. ... more
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Debra J. SaundersThough the Obama administration's decision to force church-based institutions to provide "access" to contraception as part of their health plans was intolerant and unconstitutional and gratuitously divisive, events have proved the move to be brilliant politics. ... more
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The New American Era of Socialism Tue Feb 28Armstrong WilliamsI stand for some pretty radical principles—that is, they’re radical by the standards of our time. ... more
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Erika Johnsen
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Marybeth HicksCable’s Home and Garden Television (HGTV) appears to have a new reality show about what happens when the government buys itself the right to tell you what to do. ... more
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John HawkinsPlaying baseball games without keeping score. Parents not allowed to cheer for one side or the other at basketball games. ... more
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Piddler on the Roof Tue Dec 6Ken BlackwellThey say they want to draw attention to income inequality. They have. We all now know that they claim to represent the 99% against the income gains of the 1%. They say they want a more open, more democratic government. ... more
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30 Tons of Occupied Social Justice Thu Dec 1Tony KatzThe remains of Occupy LA were hauled off to the city dump, by the city, at the taxpayers’ expense. The amount of trash? Approximately 30 tons. ... more
