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.

Let's face it: President Obama is going no where fast.  
He's stuck in the Washington he ridiculed during his historic campaign. He's squandered a super-majority in Congress and is scaring away independents from the Democratic Party because of his inability to execute.

On the evening of Tuesday, November 24 a young couple from Virginia made their way into one of the most secure events in the country, President Obama’s state dinner for Indian Prime Minister Monmohan Singh and his wife at the White House. Like the other 300 plus invited guests, Tareq and Michaele Salahi went through multiple layers of Secret Service security, took photos with Chief of Staff Rom Emanuel and mingled with Vice President Biden and other invited guests. The problem is that the Salahi’s were not invited to the dinner.