Conflicting French Entitlement Reform Statements
While America's President shrinks from facing the demographic catastrophe lurking a decade or two down the road for Social Security, Medicare, and public pensions, there is evidence in Germany...
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Obama Administration Still Sold on Solar Power
Interior Secretary Ken Salazar said in an AP interview on September 21 that the Obama administration will continue to support solar power. He made the statement despite the growing...
Fast and Furious Scandal Grows
Congressman Darrell Issa (R-Calif., left), Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, is not impressed with the explanations given by Attorney General Eric Holder and other Department...
EU Debt Crisis: Italian Bonds Downgraded
The sovereign debt woes of the European Union are nearing a critical stage. Greece's short-term bonds have recently shot to 60 percent, indicating an extremely high probability that the...
Rising Gold Prices Spawn “New Gold Rush” in the West
Anyone who watches television news for more than a few hours is likely to see an advertisement for gold. As the Federal Reserve continues to print fiat money in...
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...
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...
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...