Lies, Damned Lies, and (Unemployment) Statistics
There are different ways of calculating unemployment. The data provided by the Bureau of Labor Statistics culls out those who are not seeking employment, which may include people who...
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Free Speech, State Censorship, and the Prosecution of Dutch Politician Wilders
Most Americans — blessed with an inimitable Constitution written by men of great character and wisdom who understood the profound importance of human liberty — take freedom of expression...
Calif. Gov. Brown to Sign “Renewable Energy” Bill
California's Gov. Jerry Brown, who took office with a state government in horrific financial shape, is continuing to press for so-called “renewable energy.” A bill which has passed...
Do Religious People Live Longer?
Elissaios Papyrakis as the University of East Anglia has come out with a report that suggests that fewer and fewer young people are attending church, while the longer people...
Will Holland Outlaw Kosher Killing?
The Netherlands has long been a welcome home to Jews who suffered persecution elsewhere in Europe. During the Holocaust, Dutch Christians were exemplary in their effects to rescue Jews,...
Judge Sentences Politically Incorrect Juror to More Jury Duty
What is the purpose of the jury system? It is to provide a random group of ordinary citizens who will determine the truth of conflicting evidence in a case....
Who Will Get Oil in the Mediterranean?
There are countervailing pressures in any nation: power and profit. Power that comes from conflict and agitation — power for the sake of power — and profit that comes...
Bringing Peace to Pakistan and India
David Cameron, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, told university students in Islamabad, Pakistan, that the “time is now ripe” for India and Pakistan to make real peace. ...
Have Germany’s Free Democrats Turned Green?
The term “liberal” is highly misleading in modern usage. The Latin root word from which it is derived means “liberty” or “freedom.” Few people involved in modern politics would...
Republicans Look at Defunding the Left
Republicans in Congress, especially in the House of Representatives, are working to curtail federal funding to nonprofit organizations that more or less promote the liberal agenda. For example, GOP...
Irish Bank Woes Underline European Financial Crisis
The Irish Central Bank announced yesterday that its banks will need an additional €24 billion (or about $34 billion) in the next few months to show investors and account...
Singapore Tax Rates Encourage Prosperity
Americans who look around Washington and despair of finding any ideas that can lift the nation out of economic doldrums, ethnic and racial divisions, and foreign entanglements can find...
Belgium Sets World Record for No Govt
Mark Twain once observed, "History has tried hard to teach us that we can't have good government under politicians." So far, Belgium has found that it is hard...
Canadian Parliamentary Crisis to Send Voters Back to Polls
Canadians are headed for the polls again, showing how shaky politics has become in such countries. Stephen Harper’s Conservative Party “won” a general election in early 2006 by garnering...
How America Can Export Its Values
America has a dismal track record in imposing its values upon the rest of the world — as demonstrated most recently during the massive eruptions in the Arab world....
Arizona Bans Racial or Gender Biased Abortions
Is state sanctioned pre-natal infanticide (i.e. abortion under Roe v. Wade) inherently racist? Go back to the early decades of the 20th Century and there would be no doubt...
Governor Scott Looks at Privatizing Florida Public Hospitals
Rick Scott, the new governor of Florida, is wasting little time in looking for constitutional and market-oriented ways of reducing the cost of health care. Scott was an executive...
Gov. Brown and the California Train Wreck
Jerry Brown certainly has experience in government: He has been California's Attorney General, its 34th Governor for two terms, Mayor of Oakland, and now California's 39th Governor. His father...
The New Red Dawn: Hollywood Kowtows to Chinese Communists
Hollywood is following an old script: hide the crimes of Communism and pretend that Communists are ordinary people. MGB has remade the 1984 film Red Dawn, which described an...
Americans’ Faith in Government Plummets
A new ABC News/Washington Post poll shows that Americans' confidence in their government has plummeted in the last decade. In August 1974, around the time that President Nixon resigned,...