Colorado Amendment 62: An Issue of Life or Death
The “personhood” movement began with Justice Harry Blackman’s opinion for the majority in Roe v. Wade in 1973: “The appellee and certain amici...
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The Federal Reserve Makes Plan to Increase the Money Supply — Again
The notes of the latest meeting of the Federal Reserve, released on Tuesday, clearly show the Fed’s next step in trying to solve...
A Primer in Protectionism
Despite opaque and dissembling arguments that what the world needs now is a world currency to replace the weakening dollar, there are significant...
Greenspan’s Fear and Trembling
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, is worried about many things. In March he worried about the future of the economy....
Tea Party Giving Neocons Heartburn
Several neoconservative writers have recently expressed nervousness about Tea Party supporters threatening to make substantial cuts in military expenditures in order to rein...
Translating Bernanke-speak About the Great Recession
When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says the country is in trouble, many aren’t listening, partly because the media wasn’t there reporting on it,...
Stuffing the Lame Duck (Congress)
In their haste to leave Washington and attempt to rescue whatever might be left of their political careers, politicians put off until a...
The Real Costs of the Wars
When the book The $3 Trillion War debuted in 2008, it was roundly criticized by such notables as John Lott, Richard Zerbe and...
The Coming Third Trillion-dollar Bailout: The States
It was appropriate for Meredith Whitney to title her latest 600-page report for her investment clients The Tragedy of the Commons. That title...
Bank Failures: 127 Down, 800 to Go
When Zacks Equity Research announced on Monday the failure of two more banks in the current recession, the silence was deafening. The report...
Wiretapping Your Emails
As communications technology has raced ahead of government attempts to tame it, in the name of law enforcement, the Obama administration, the FBI,...
Pulpit Freedom Sunday Confronts IRS
On Sunday more than 100 preachers will be speaking out on political issues and candidates in direct contravention of the IRS. And then...
Armed Citizens 1, Criminals 0
The report from NewsNet5 in Wadsworth, Ohio, was scarcely considered news, rating only a few brief paragraphs: “A gun-carrying couple helped [police] catch...
GM Caught in a Lie, Still Owes The United States Billions
Daniel Akerson, the new CEO of General Motors, said last week that the rate of payback of U.S. government bailout monies "will be...
Bell City: Lessons in Looting
Eight former or current Bell, California, officials were arrested on Tuesday for looting the city for themselves and their friends, according to Los...