The Causes of Rising Food Prices
Food prices are rising quickly around the world. Part of the problem is weather. The winter wheat crop in China has been poor. Australia has suffered floods, while Russia...
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Department of Education’s Orwellian Plans
The U.S. Department of Education does not serve any clear purpose. The Constitution leaves education to state governments as a residual power. In our history, that did not mean...
Europe: Immigration and the Price of Empire
The European Union, which is enduring severe financial crises in several of its member states, including Greece and Ireland, and internal stresses in artificial nations such as Belgium, may...
South Carolina Looks to Bigger Traffic Fines as Revenue Source
As long as we have government, we will have government trying to find ways to get money. In the early days of our nation, when the needs of government...
Environmentalists Against Windpower?
Environmentalists demand that America’s oil companies do not drill for oil, even in those areas that have proven for many years to be safe for drilling, such as the...
Bond Rating Services Latest Scapegoat in Greek Crisis
Collectivists always choose some enemy to blame for their failures. In America, the mantra against “the rich” is one example of that deliberate shifting of blame. Oil, tobacco, and...
Postal Service Faces Shortfall
The number of activities contemplated by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution for the federal government is very small. However, astute Americans are aware that much of what the...
Last U.S. Veteran of World War I Dies
Frank W. Buckles, the last remaining U.S. veteran of the First World War, died last Sunday at the age of 110. There are now only two people alive in...
Australia Ponders Ban on Some Garden Plants as Drugs
Does prohibition work? People make bad choices all the time. Overindulgence of alcohol has destroyed many lives, marriages, and families. The Bible speaks in harsh, clear terms about the...
Should Tucson Become a New State?
There is a movement in Pima County, Arizona to create a new state, "Baja Arizona," to reflect the political spirit of the southern part of the state. Advocates of...
Does America Need a “Civility Institute”?
Fred DuVal, a friend of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and a member of the Arizona Board of Regents, has proposed a “Civility Institute” to promote compromise among opposing political parties...
Can Rural America Be Saved?
Much of rural America is dying. The 2010 census data shows that one-fourth of all counties in the United States lost population. The industrial corporations which once provided good...
Is the Mountain of Government Debt Too High?
Government debt ? the amount of money borrowed by the federal government, state governments, and subdivisions of those two levels of government ? is now greater than the entire...
Are These the Last Days of Belgium?
Europe is unraveling. The Bank of Ireland simply prints euros without even the authority of the central bank to back it up. The creditworthiness of the debt instruments of...
Is the Reign of “Czars” Over?
The Reign of the Czars, at least in the executive branch of the U.S. government, may be near an end. Congressman Steve Scalise (R-La.) offered an amendment that would...
Charlie Rangel Files for Another Term
It seems that Charles ("Charlie") Rangel (D-N.Y.) is seeking another two years in the House of Representatives. Although as yet he has made no formal announcement, he has filed...
What Does Red China Intend With Its Rare Earth Monopoly?
Communist China supplies the world with more than 95 percent of the rare earth minerals, resources which are increasingly vital to advanced technology. In September 2009, China announced that...
Survey Shows Glaring Ignorance of Basic Science Among Russians
A spokeswoman for the Russian government, Olga Kamenchuk, reports that VsTIOM, the state’s polling organization, has found an astounding level of ignorance among Russians about basic facts of science....
Youth Faces Jail for Dog Killing Raccoon
Serious belief in God precludes an embrace of cruelty. If creation is “blessed,” then its creatures, in some way or another, are too. This of course does not mean...
French Govt. Ministers Vacation on Dime of Arab Tyrants
French President Nicolas Sarkozy is in a quandry: the government ministers of France have been taking vacations in the sand and surf of the southern Mediterranean and presidential palaces...