poverty

Star Parker appears on Varney and Company explaining how the entitlement mentality has destroyed the black family.

Americans have come to see government, rather than family, as the institution through which we primarily help each other.

The Fed either is going to protect the value of our money or it is going to print it to pay for spending -- unfortunately, it has chosen the latter.

Liberal mythology is about a power struggle of interests between "haves" and "have-nots" rather than an ongoing struggle for human freedom.

All our growing big government failures, now being institutionalized instead of being reformed, will be dumped disproportionately into their laps.

Government unions use the force model to enrich themselves at the direct expense of taxpayers to the point of bankrupting us all.

Despite the major repudiation Obama received in last year's election, he has not changed at all.

How do we reconcile the paradox that most know that the federal government is out of control, yet support the programs that are driving it out of control?

The fact that experts in Washington are wrong 100 percent of the time never seems to discourage us from going down the same path again and again.

One can only hope that at some point black clergy will grasp that freedom means a culture of responsibility, not a culture of entitlement.