Bill McMorris is a journalist who has covered labor issues and political campaigns. He contributed to The Weekly Standard in 2011, writing about public-sector union disputes in Connecticut and Rick Perry's presidential campaign. He is also known for his reporting at the Washington Free Beacon.
Rick Perry has been catching some flak for calling Social Security a Ponzi scheme. Some conservative purists defended the former frontrunner for “telling it like it is.” Maybe. But Perry’s 10th Amendment solution — which he slightly backed away from at the Fox/Google debate — could be even more…
“If we don’t succeed, I probably won’t be re-elected. If I’m not re-elected, you’re not gonna have somebody who does the kinds of things I do, who actually believes in government, and believes in unions at the same time.” — Gov. Dannel Malloy to union leaders on March 4.