Control the language and you control the debate. Who said that? George Orwell? Saul Alinsky? Karl Marx? Groucho Marx? Me? Anyway, I was reminded of the importance of language by a comment to a recent article of mine from one “Mike 3/505.” Mike began his comment by quoting my second sentence, which he put in italics thus: “So just when they were borrowing money like never before, Democrats passed the biggest entitlement in decades.” Mike then responded: Stop! Stop this right now! We will never win this argument if we keep promoting falsehoods such as the line above. ObamaCare is not an entitlement. Entitlements are things you have ownership of... things you have title to... which is where the word comes from. Mike has a problem with the word “entitlement.” I do too, for I also wrote: “The whole idea of entitlements needs to be revisited.” It’s interesting that someone responded to an article that dealt, in part, with...(Read Full Article)