Too many Americans refuse to let go of the same illusions that Greeks protesting in the streets cling to today.

By Star Parker
 

Ginni Thomas's call to Anita Hill has, not surprisingly, provoked columns and blogging speculating what motivated the call, some wanting to relive those hearings of 20 years ago.
 
But how about considering the simplest and most straightforward scenario?
 

Liberals can't seem to grasp that black Americans are waking up to the fact that the welfare state plantation is not in the interest of black or white Americans.
Atlantic Magazine journalist and blogger Jeffrey Goldberg is trying to understand why blacks are such "very forgiving people."

 
Why does he think they are?

With the new credit card laws, it will be harder to get cards, which will hurt low income families that liberals supposedly care so much about.
 
Putting more and more wolves in charge of guarding the henhouse might characterize the big problems we've now created for ourselves. Government is growing.
 
The private economy is shrinking. Those wielding political power see fewer and fewer problems they believe private citizens can solve on our own. Soon, each one of us will have our own personal guardian bureaucrat.

By Star Parker
The main way to end the poverty cycle is to get poor children educated but teachers' unions refuse to make concessions and hard adjustments like all Americans are making.
 
Washington's latest bailout of bleeding state governments, $26 billion worth, has gotten attention because, among other things, almost half the bailout is financed by cutting $12 billion from food stamps.