At the age of 16, Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., suffered the death of his 55-year-old father. Because of his father’s early death, the government made survivor payments for a few years to Paul Ryan’s family – including for Paul Ryan himself. Ryan collected benefits for two years, until he turned 18.
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If a motto summed up the Obama presidency, it might be, “Life is short. Eat dessert first.” His policies are all about self-indulgence in the present, to be paid for with either long-run economic decline, or painful sacrifices by future generations.
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In his speech in Tucson, where federal Judge John Roll was recently murdered, President Obama said that "only a more civil and honest public discourse can help us face up to our challenges as a nation." But the President himself has often failed to live up to this aspiration, as his dishonest attacks on the judiciary, and his long line of broken campaign promises, illustrate.
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Although the Tucson shooter was mentally erratic, did not listen to talk radio or Fox News, and loved the Communist Manifesto, liberal lawmakers and newspapers like the
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Hearing some of the Democratic senators in the Kagan confirmation hearings, you would think that our current Supreme Court stepped out of a Charles Dickens novel to oppress people. Don’t believe it.
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