Beleaguered Belgium: Yves Leterme Resigns
If the European Union begins to disintegrate, what signs would portend its spiral into disunion? One would be a member nation utterly ignoring the financial rules intended to support...
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Florida Teachers Sue to Stop Merit Pay Law
Governor Rick Scott of Florida (left) signed SB 736 into law in March, which requires merit pay for teachers and ends tenure for newly hired school teachers. The Florida...
Will the Left Send America Into Civil War?
When Congresswoman Maxine Waters says that the Tea Party can “go to Hell” and Jimmy Hoffa, of the notoriously violent Teamsters Union says of Obama's political opponents, “Let’s take...
The Wisdom of Voter ID Laws
Votes in a republic must be counted honorably or elections are worse than useless. Political machines after the Civil War learned the tools for stealing votes en masse. Immigrants...
Private Banks Urged to Support Greek Bonds
Collectivist statists from America to southern Europe are singing a familiar tune: The private sector is to blame for the economic nightmare that they have created. The Obama administration...
Millionaires Want Out of China
China may soon be the largest economy in the world. It has always had those things required to be a giant on the world stage: industrious people culturally given...
Florida Governor Rick Scott Aims to Rein in Overregulation
Florida Governor Rick Scott has looked at the 20,000 administrative rules in the Florida Administrative Code, and is asking the state legislature to repeal in one fell swoop 1,000...
Few See Hope in European Crisis
The global economy is facing a meltdown, according to World Bank President Robert Zoellick. “We are moving into a dangerous period,” he told Bloomberg Television at a Singapore interview....
Gov. Haley Calls on Obama to Stand Up to NLRB
Republican Governor Nikki Haley of South Carolina spoke on September 1 with reporters via a conference call. The Governor accused President Obama, who will give a “jobs speech” to...
Amusement Park Safety Rules Anger Muslims
Eid-ul-Fitr, marking the end of Ramadan, is one of the most important Muslim religious holidays. As a celebration of that holiday, 3,000 Muslims went to Playland Amusement Park in Rye, New York....
More Wisconsin Teachers Opt for Retirement
Wisconsin public employees unions were not able to stop Governor Walker’s plan to remove benefits from the items subject to collective bargaining. The unions first persuaded Wisconsin state senators...
European Banks Water Down Greek Bond Losses
In banking, few values count more than consistency and integrity. The sovereign debt crisis in Europe, however, appears to have watered down those values in the case of some...
Iran: Christians, not Nukes, Are the Real Story
  The persecution of Christians is the biggest untold story in the establishment media. Consider Iran, a nation that we fear because it may soon acquire nuclear weapons.This fear is...
Feds Reject National School Bus Seatbelt Mandate
There are an estimated 500,000 public school buses in America, which will carry America's school children back and forth about 4.2 billion miles this school year. The Center for...
Mich. Limits Public-employee Unions
Wisconsin Governor Scott Walker's nationally known political victory over the powerful labor unions in his state has inspired yet another state to tackle its public-employee unions. Michigan, where organized...
Rural Greece Falls Back on Self-Reliance
Roger Jinkinson is a British writer, and he lives in a remote Greek village on the island of Karpathos (left). Although the village is not immune to the meltdown of...
Popular Vote Project Is Against Spirit, Letter of Constitution
Percolating through the legislatures of many states are bills that would provide that a state's electoral votes would go to whichever presidential candidate receives a majority of the national...
U.S. Is Aiding Governments That Persecute Christians
Though most Americans desire peace and freedom in the world, the Founding Fathers consistently stated that wherever the principles of ordered liberty arose among other nations of the world,...
Poll: Most Germans Oppose Merkel’s, Sarkozy’s Handling of EU Crisis
The debt crises of European Union member-states have reached critical mass. Three of the "PIIGS" nations — Portugal, Ireland, and Greece — and likely the other two — Italy...
EU Tells Sweden to Rescind Wolf-hunting Licenses or Face Legal Action
The European Union has threatened Sweden with legal action unless it rescinds its first issuance of wolf-hunting licenses in 45 years. Swedish Minister for the Environment Andreas Carlgren announced...