America:  “I’ve declined and fallen and I can’t get up!” The number of workers taking federal disability insurance payments hit yet another record in July, increasing to 8,753,935 during the month from the previous record of 8,733,461 set in June, according to newly released datafrom the Social Security Administration. The 8,753,935 workers who took federal disability insurance payments in July exceeded the population of 39 of the 50 states. Only

Well, I’ve been arguing so for years, because I don’t think that taking the party over is a realistic option: a quick look at the GOP presidential nominees since Reagan tells us that, and this primary season — where we watched the “conservative” online mouthpieces consistently pushing the inevitability of Romney, having first dismissed nearly every other candidate as unserious (save for the Texas Romney, a staunch electable conservative, we

1. The shooter wore body armor and tactical protective gear, which is impervious to everything except armor piercing bullets (banned for civilian use) and Kryptonite. 2. Which is precisely why we need to ban body armor and tactical protective gear except for military and law enforcement. 3. And of course, he bought ammunition online, in bulk. That needs to stop. 4. That ammo he bought? Was to put in his

Arab spring, literally and symbolically sprung! How perfect is that? Meanwhile, even in the wake of the official report on how political correctness likely aided in the Fort Hood massacre, it’s somehow unconscionable and dangerous — McCarthyism! Islamaphobia! — to ask for investigations into a group like the Muslim Brotherhood, who has gained access to the White House, and who has a state goal to undermine the miserable house of