USA Today: At a time when workers’ pay and benefits have stagnated, federal employees’ average compensation has grown to more than double what private sector workers earn, a USA TODAY analysis finds. Federal workers have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years in a row. The compensation gap between federal and private workers has doubled in the past decade. Federal civil servants earned

Tony Blankley sticks his finger in the wind and comes away more sanguine than I am: A year ago, it seemed possible that a majority of Americans – rattled by economic collapse and under the sway of a popular, charismatic president – might buy in to plans to fundamentally transform America away from liberty, prosperity and greatness and toward security and a massive, protective state. At first, many of us

Yes, I’m behind the curve on this story, which broke in June. But so what? That just means I can be outraged now. So. For those who hadn’t heard: Affirmative action comes to the ballet box in Port Chester, NY — and a judge rules it okay. Behold! Well, I guess it beats declaring white voters 1/6 of a person. Because that would be, like, racist.