Is President Obama quietly seething?  Within the space of barely a week his five staged Sunday morning television appearances have failed to stem his declining domestic popularity, while his speech to the United Nations General Assembly has ignited international concerns about his leadership.  What has gone wrong?  Aiming to restore public faith in his Administration and [...]...

According to the media, Europeans are bemused by public resistance to President Obama’s health care reforms because they consider a universal system to be a basic necessity.  The BBC’s Matt Frei wrote that, “The fact that 46 million Americans are uninsured and half as many under-insured is an outrage… that affects the lives of others.”  [...]...

“A decent provision for the poor is the truest test of civilization,” wrote Samuel Johnson, capturing society’s need to care for those who have little.  These days the Great Society isn’t just providing for the needy, it is buying high tech electricity generating equipment for the well-off. As U.S. states begin to feel the fiscal pinch [...]...