At A Time When Democratic Leaders Are

It's Time For A 21st-century Retirement Age. If 40 Is The New 20 And 50 Is The New 30, Why Shouldn't 70 Be The New 65? The Last Time Washington Politicians Tinkered Ever So Gingerly With The Government-sanctioned Retirement Age, Ronald Reagan Was In Office And Generation X-ers Were All In Diapers.

Let There Be No Doubt: Democrats Are The Party With Two Ideas: Borrow And Spend. The Only Vigorous Internal Debate On The Left Revolves Around Two Questions: How Much And How Much More?

Education Secretary Arne Duncan Spurned The Opportunity To Condemn Thousands Of Wisconsin Public School Teachers For Lying About Being 'sick' And Shutting Down At Least Eight School Districts Across The State To Attend Capitol Protests (many Of Whom Dragged Their Students On A Social Justice Field Trip With Them). Instead, Duncan Defended Teachers For 'doing Probably The Most Important Work In Society.' Only Striking Government Teachers Could Win Federal Praise For Not Doing Their Jobs.

Acorn, You May Recall, Is The Left-wing Activist Group With Longtime Ties To Community Organizer-turned-president Barack Obama. The Nonprofit, Which Now Takes In 40 Percent Of Its Revenues From American Taxpayers After Four Decades On The Public Teat, Has A History Of Engaging In Voter Fraud, Corporate Shakedowns, Partisan Bullying And Pro-illegal Immigration Lobbying. The Democrats' Stimulus Proposals Could Make The Group - And Its Lesser Known But Even More Radical Ideological Allies - Eligible For Upward Of $5 Billion In New Public Cash.

Within Two Weeks Of Moving Into The White House, Obama Signed A Series Of Executive Orders Championed By Union Bosses. The New Rules Authorized Sweeping Powers For The Labor Secretary That Essentially Blackball Nonunion Contractors Targeted By Labor Organizers And Blacklist Nonunion Employees In The Private Sector From Working On Taxpayer-funded Projects.