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Thomas Sowell: The Art of the Impossible

Someone called politics “the art of the possible.” But, in the era of the modern welfare state, politics is largely the art of the impossible. Those people morbid enough to keep track of politicians’ promises may remember how Barack Obama said that ObamaCare would lower medical costs — and lots of people bought it. But [...]

Obama administration claims its budget would reduce the deficit by 1.8 trillion over the next decade

Rich Tucker In the early 1990s, toy maker Mattel got into hot water for manufacturing a talking Barbie doll that warned children: “Math class is tough.” Yet 20 years later, if we could pull their string, most politicians would probably say just that. It’s budget season in Washington, D.C. (actually budgets were due months ago, [...]