Neil W. McCabe

‘Corrosive kindness’ Cato study: Welfare pays Bay Staters $42k/year

Almost 20 years after its study comparing welfare benefits to the minimum wage, the Washington-based Cato Institute released a new study showing there are 36 states with welfare benefits more generous than the minimum wage. In 13 states, including Massachusetts, welfare pays more than $15 an hour.

Three years later, Terry’s death and the press

Three years ago, a four-reporter team from The Washington Post, James V. Grimaldi and Sari Horwitz on the team with research editor Alice Crites and staff writer William Booth, embedded inside President Barack Obama’s Fast and Furious program.

GOP 3-D gun ban gives early Christmas to Obama, Democrats

The House Republican leadership with its Dec. 3 vote to extend the ban on “undetectable” guns proved again it excels at political cowardice and betrayal of conservatives.

Veritas Project exposes Enroll America, Team Obama’s Rule No. 17

Before James O’Keefe and the Veritas Project, conservatives could only speculate whether liberals and government officials would facilitate prostitution or fraud.

The mighty Warren at bat

As a son of Massachusetts in exile, I watched with horror and amazement at the chain of events that in two years began with the shooting star of Scott P. Brown and ended with the election of Elizabeth Warren, a woman who always sounds like she is lecturing me about something.

Guarantee: Christie will not follow Obama into the White House

There are few things more difficult in American politics to predict than who will become president. Connolly, Giuliani, Lindsay, Graham, Thompson are just five names, who in my lifetime were locks for the GOP nomination and none of their campaigns survived the first lap.

Kibbe: Why are White House, Homeland Security, IRS, others scoping site FreedomWorks.org?

Forty years after Watergate, a scandal about a president’s men breaking into and bugging opposition, often under the cover of a national security imperative, Americans in opposition to the country’s current trend lines are still subject to political surveillance.

Justice for the Korean War heroism of the 'Borinqueneers'

During the shutdown of the federal government, after President Barack Obama infamously erected barricades around the open air war memorials on the National Mall in Washington, the media carried reports of Vietnam and World War II veterans breaking through the fences to assert their stake at those sacred sites.

Hey, Bill Russell, don’t be sorry for having a gun

Boston Celtics Hall of Fame center William F. “Bill” Russell apologized Oct. 21 for the carrying of a loaded .38 Smith & Wesson revolver that led to his Oct. 16 arrest at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. The basketball great was taken upstairs to an office of the Sea-Tac Airport police department, where he was booked, background checked and issued a citation for having in illegal weapon at the airport. While prosecutors decide how to handle the misdemeanor, the 79-year-old was free to fly to Boston where Nov. 1 he will unveil a bronze statue of himself. “Before boarding my flight from Seattle to Boston, I had accidentally left a legal firearm in my bag. I apologize and truly regret the mistake,” said the center in a statement issued through boston.com. “I was issued a citation by the TSA, whose agents couldn’t have been more thorough and professional when dealing with this. I really appreciate their efforts to keep air travel safe.”

Routed, betrayed by GOP leaders DC conservatives talk third party

The mood among conservatives on Capitol Hill is glum as Republican leaders from the House and Senate negotiate their party’s surrender to President Barack Obama.

Report: Two Navy SEALs killed in Somalian raid

A Twitter account that claims familiarity with the Al Shabab terrorist organization posted photos of two white males on October 6 that it claims are the remains of Navy SEALs left behind after a failed Oct. 5 raid on its compound at Baraawa, Somalia. The photos show both men suffered extensive damage to their heads, but there are also bandages that suggest they received medical attention.

Abramoff-style Indian maneuvers to stop Keystone XL

Capitol Hill supporters of the Keystone XL pipeline have delayed consideration of an amendment devised by the Mapetsi Policy Group, a lobbyist firm full of former Clinton administration apparatchiks for one week, to give Keystone advocates time to lean on Republicans inclined to support it.

Music industry set to bite the radio hands that feed it

The recording industry is looking to goose the federal government into putting its big fat thumb on the scales as it pushes for monetary compensation from broadcast radio stations.

Lesson of Navy Yard shooting echoes lessons of Camp Liberty, Fort Hood

Monday’s shooting spree at Washington’s Navy Yard reminds us that disarmed military personnel are made-to-order victims for spree shooters.

Follow Alinsky: Call Obama’s bluff

In his famous primer, “Rules for Radicals,” Saul Alinsky made two points that help illuminate how President Barack Obama has chosen to lead America.

Paul sounds clarion for clarification on Syria adventurism

The Republican senator, who has become the foreign policy alternative voice to Sen. John S. McCain III (R-Ariz.) met with reporters Sept. 3 to flesh out his view on President Barack Obama’s Syrian machinations.

Obama’s mad dash from Iraq left US without leverage in Syria

To update Tallyrand, our 2011 shag-out-of-town from Iraq was worse than a crime, it was a mistake—a mistake we will continue to pay for in Syria and the rest of the Middle East.

In the Democrat-held Senate McCain is the ‘model prisoner’

It is now clear that Sen. John S. McCain III (R.-Ariz.) has completed his transition from being the Senate’s “maverick” to becoming the upper body’s model prisoner.

For ‘Action August’ Little Obamanists harangue ‘Climate Deniers’

Forget the lazy days of summer. The cadre serving under the banner of Organizing for America have declared this month “Action August,” and the marching orders were issued for the Little Obamanists to stage rallies and blizzard their neighborhoods with flyers and postcards about Global Warming.

This recess GOP plays dodge ball

Back three years, the harbinger that the Tea Party would revive the moribund Republican Party was the sight of Democratic incumbents overwhelmed and helpless in chaotic town meetings held during the August recess.