Billionaire Warren Buffett is urging U.S. lawmakers to raise taxes on America’s super-rich to help cut the budget deficit, saying such a move will not hurt investments. In a guest opinion piece in the New York Times, “Stop Coddling the Super-Rich,” the 80-year-old accused Congress of being “billionaire friendly.” “Our leaders have asked for ‘shared…

House Speaker John Boehner and Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi say they will end the congressional page program, an initiative that brings high school students to Capitol Hill to work alongside elected officials. “The decision is a historic mistake and brings to an untimely end a nearly two-century-old American tradition,” writes Miles Taylor for the Daily…

Baby boomers have destroyed every cultural institution in America they have touched: marriage, family, public education, government, financial markets, healthcare, and more, say some critics, whose views may be supported by a Personality and Social Psychology Review study. “Many argue that one of the most tragic legacies of the baby boomer generation is its narcissistic…

“Some have compared the riots in the UK to the London Blitz,” writes author Cal Thomas in World magazine.  “It’s a flawed comparison. The strategic bombing of London in 1940 came from an external enemy, Nazi Germany. Enemies from within are carrying out the free-for-all that began in Tottenham, England, on Saturday—quickly spreading to London…

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