social security

In the next few decades, promised federal spending threatens to drown the U.S. economy. It could make the financial bailout seem cheap.

Sen. John McCain came into the second presidential debate tonight in Nashville in a position of weakness — trailing nationally and slipping in the swing states. He was looking for what the pundits refer to as a “game-changer,” a big win that stops Sen. Barack Obama’s forward momentum and recasts the race in more favorable [...]

Yesterday I mentioned, randomly, how attacking Democratic presidential candidates on guns is usually a ploy.
The Feds won’t take away people’s guns, no matter who runs the White House, because there is a super-majority in Congress to block such efforts.
Attacking on guns, like Social Security, plays up an improbable fear, I argued. But it turns out [...]