Commentary by James Shott Most Americans think that helping truly needy people, whether they live here or in some other country, is a worthy objective. Looking at charitable contributions as a benchmark, Americans are the most generous people in the world, giving $316.23 billion to charitable organizations in 2012, about 2 percent of GDP, according to Charity Navigator, and preliminary figures for 2013 indicate a significant...
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Forty years after Roe v. Wade, abortion is still a national disgrace
Commentary by James Shott An abortion-related event occurred last week, and if you were paying close attention to the news, you might have been aware of that. Hundreds of thousands of abortion opponents gathered in Washington, DC for the “March for Life,” protesting the grisly process that has terminated about 55 million future Americans in the womb since the Roe v. Wade decision in 1973.It wasn’t easy to find news...
As the New Year begins, government’s policies are still failing us
Commentary by James Shott As the economic non-recovery crawls into 2014, the “good news” on the jobs front – that the unemployment rate dropped .3 percent in December to 6.7 percent – is far less impressive when you look beneath the surface.The reason the unemployment rate dropped was not that a strengthening economy produced a sharply higher number of new jobs, as should be expected in a true recovery. December showed...
How many of America’s “poor” are like this lady and her husband?
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Do Social Security and Medicare show that Obamacare can be successful?
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Is Congress finally getting serious about spending and the debt?
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The scare mongering continues on the debt ceiling and default
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The five disgusting Ps of the Obama/Reid Government Shutdown
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