NRO Digest: The president guts welfare reform to spread the wealth around

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NRO Digest

August 8, 2012

Today on National Review Online . . .

ROBERT RECTOR: The president's goal is to spread the wealth by massively increasing the welfare state. Obama's Attack on 'Workfare.'

STANLEY KURTZ: What was Obama and his New Party up to while America was agreeing on welfare reform? Obama's Welfare Free Lunch.

MARK KRIKORIAN: There are other ways welfare reform has already been gutted, too. Immigration + Welfare = Bad News.

WILLIAM VOEGELI: Misplaced compassion for criminals harms not only the victims' families but all of society. Vengeance Is Ours.

JIM GERAGHTY: Meet the Democrats' keynote convention speaker, Julián Castro of San Antonio. Loud Praise for a Mayor of Quiet Record.

JOHN O'SULLIVAN: Choosing an unhyphenated American identity. Immigration and the GOP.

JONAH GOLDBERG: Republicans need more candidates like Cruz and Rubio. The GOP and the Latino Vote.

KRIKORIAN: One shouldn't overplay the appeal of Ted Cruz and Marco Rubio to most American Hispanics. Hispanics and the GOP.

JACK DUNPHY: Screaming and posturing in the home of Disneyland. Anaheim: No Laughing Matter.

MICHAL KUZ: What might come of the U.S. abandoning its Eastern European allies? The Abandoned Alliance.

MICHAEL TANNER: Our current president is much more profligate than the last Democrat to hold the office. Obama Is No Clinton.

THOMAS SOWELL: The ups and downs of a famous neighborhood. Harlem Then and Now.

MARK STEYN: Don't get hung up on the details, Democratic attacks insist. Re: To Hell with You People.

VICTOR DAVIS HANSON: Dirty politics pays, as Obama has found. The Chicago Way Works.

JOHN FUND: Last night saw a conservative revolution in the land of the Jayhawks. Kansas's Tea Party Triumphs.

VERONIQUE DE RUGY: The more you look at the data, the worse the economy looks. Jobs Numbers and the So-called Recovery.