In 1964, after the death of John F. Kennedy, President Lyndon B. Johnson stood up on the capitol and declared war on poverty in the hopes of increasing the welfare state of Americans. According to the...

I’m not going to lie; I didn’t go into reading Sarah Palin’s new book,  Good Tidings and Great Joy: Protecting the Heart of Christmas , with an open mind. To be fair, though, with the barrage...