Youth Vote: A Millennial Speaks

"In the past year, failed policies and broken promises have caused Millennials to become increasingly disillusioned with the Obama administration, causing a shift on the political spectrum to the right among young voters," writes conservative University of Arizona student Julianne Stanford at CollegeFix.com.

The "never-ending economic recession" heads her to-do list for those wanting to capitalize on Millennial discontent. "They shoulder massive student loan debts and dismal job prospects."

Second, "offer viable suggestions to reverse the damage done to Millennials by the Affordable Care Act..."

Third, get with it in getting their message out. "This means candidates must use mediums that appeal to young voters, such as social networking, targeted advertisement, and hitting the pavement to meet voters in person."

Last, dump the "stodgy old men with sinister ties to big business" image, and find messengers that appeal to Millennials.

Millennials are presenting a great opportunity, she argues, and it shouldn't be squandered.

Read her full article.

Progressives destroy their government god, especially with young

The liberal-progressive faith relies on inculcating a belief in an omniscient, benevolent and just government god, so it's heartening to watch progressives systematically destroy that faith in their own deity (particularly among the young), as polling data now show.

Pondering how the IRS scandals (which occurred entirely on Obama's watch) have destroyed public confidence in the government agency, Peggy Noonan writes:

One irony here is that the Obama White House, always keen to increase the reach and power of government, also seems profoundly disinterested in good governing. It is strange. The long-term project of liberalism involves encouraging the idea of faith in government as a bringer or guarantor of greater justice. But who needs more government if government works so very badly, and is in its operations unjust?

Recalling Stein's Law in economics—If something cannot go on forever, it will stop—Charles Krauthammer writes:

Detroit, for example, can no longer go on borrowing, spending, raising taxes and dangerously cutting such essential services as street lighting and police protection. So it stops. It goes bust.

Cause of death? Corruption, both legal and illegal, plus a classic case of reactionary liberalism in which the governing Democrats — there’s been no Republican mayor in half a century — simply refused to adapt to the straitened economic circumstances that followed the post-World War II auto boom.

Dan Mitchell, in Atlas Shrugs in Detroit, argues: