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Many Republicans have bought the myth that the immigration issue is the main barrier between Hispanics and the Republican Party.

How is it that, after almost four years of terrible economic results that Obama's persona is not more tarnished?

It has become increasingly easy to qualify for SNAP benefits.

Tavis Smiley and Cornel West's new book claims there is no hope for anyone to rise out of poverty without government boosting them using other people's money.

Obama knows how to tap into the worst instincts of people to garner political support -- inspiring blame and envy, sadly, pays political dividends.

The inconceivable and the unanticipated is the rule of our lives rather than the exception.

The welfare state assumes from the start that individuals won't make it without government managing their lives.

NAACP fights efforts to address the core problems that perpetuate the cycle of poverty in black America.

Cutting payroll taxes earmarked for bankrupted Social Security is no way to run a country and no way for people -- who are allegedly free and responsible citizens -- to live.

Some would have us believe that compromise is what has always defined our political process -- but compromise works only between parties that are essentially on the same page to begin with.