Boston Terrorists Funded by Welfare

"The Tsarnaev family, including the suspected terrorists and their parents, benefited from more than $100,000 in taxpayer-funded assistance — a bonanza ranging from cash and food stamps to Section 8 housing from 2002 to 2012," reports the Boston Herald. "'The breadth of the benefits the family was receiving was stunning', said a person with knowledge of documents handed over to a legislative committee today."

A life of relative ease gave them time and opportunity to go radical and deadly. And we wonder why so many American taxpayers want to slam the door on easy immigration—and welfare—policy?

California: #1 Welfare State

"Can conservatives prevent the U.S. from becoming California?" asks Conn Carroll. We'd better, or the nation will soon become the United States of Welfare and as unsustainable as Greece. Currently one-third of all the nation's welfare recipients live in California. Noting that middle-class, job-seeking families are fleeing California in droves, Carroll warns that if conservatives allow "what has happened to California happen to the rest of America ... middle-class families will have nowhere to go."