Suez Canal and Its Long-term Prospects
Thousands of service workers at the Suez Canal recently threatened an indefinite strike and sit-in protest against the poor living conditions, low wages, and bad healthcare provided to them. So far...
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Merkel and Sarkozy Cannot Save European Union
German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Nicolas Sarkozy both believe in global "solutions" to problems. How well does this play in Lisbon, Athens, Dublin, or Madrid? Portugal, Greece,...
Woman Arrested for Selling Flowers out of Home
The criminalization of ordinary life has become a sad reality in our statist society. Dena Long-Christensen should know. The 44-year-old Utah woman was arrested last month, fined and put...
Is Global Warming Causing Winter Storms?
Can global warming cause great snowstorms? America is certainly experiencing very cold weather, unseasonably cold weather which, in some places, is as cold as has been recorded by man. ...
Labor Lawyer on NLRB Finally Recuses Himself from Case
Craig Becker is a longtime lawyer for big labor. Among his clients have been the AFL-CIO and the Service Employees International Union (SEIU). When President Obama appointed him to...
N.M.’s Gov. Martinez Takes Stand Against Violent Illegal Immigrants
As one of her first official acts, New Mexico's new Republican Governor Susana Martinez issued an executive order rescinding illegal immigrants' sanctuary from investigation of their legal status when...
Sikh Student Brings “Religious Dagger” to School
Are school children allowed to carry weapons to school? School districts throughout the nation have policies which ban weapons — and even objects that resemble weapons — from school...
N.Y. Undercover Agents Investigate Ariz. Gun Sellers
The City of New York, as part of an effort of Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s administration, sent investigators to Arizona to purchase firearms at gun shows. According to news reports,...
Mexican Smugglers Catapulting Drugs Across Border
Man is an incredibly inventive creature — almost especially, it seems, when his mind is bent to criminal purposes. Anyone who has seen the elaborate means convicts use to...
Va. Passes Intrastate Commerce Act to Rein in Federal Govt
The State of Virginia -- home of George Washington, Patrick Henry, James Madison, Thomas Jefferson, and James Monroe -- was once an indispensable part of the American Republic. Although...
People Are a Big Problem to Environmentalists
The Carnegie Institution’s Department of Global Ecology believes it has discovered in the annals of history a champion — though inadvertent — of environmentalism. They proclaim: Genghis Khan’s Mongol...
Supreme Court Acts as Trial Court in Two-State Dispute
The Supreme Court of the United States has but modest status in the U.S. Constitution. The court is mentioned only in Article III, Section 1 and Section 2 of...
Christian Arabs Face Persecution in Their Homelands
Romel Hawal was born in Habbaniya Cece, Iraq, 48 years ago. Most of the population then was Christian. Now Hawal may become part of a long exodus of Christians...
Irish Central Bank Prints Euros to Pay Bonuses
The financial crisis which has been pulling eurozone nations such as Greece and Portugal into a downward spiral of high interest rates on government debt and inability to repay...
Some Romanians Pine for “Good Old Days” of Communism
Six years ago the Romanian Institute for Marketing and Polling reported that 64% of the people felt that their nation was moving in the right direction, toward free-market democracy....
Subsidizing Ethanol Is Bad Policy
The federal policy of trying to reduce energy dependence through the use of ethanol runs counter to free-market economics. Increasing the use of ethanol will not reduce dependence upon...
Is Chinese Economy a Paper Tiger?
Banks in China allow American customers to buy and to hold Chinese yuan. A state-owned Chinese bank in New York has begun to offer its customers accounts denominated in...
Polls Show Grave Concern About Federal Debt
The American people, according to a January 11 Reuters poll, strongly oppose raising the debt ceiling of the federal government. The poll shows that 71 percent of respondents are...
Leahy Is Right: Vermont Is Different
At a Newseum event in Washington on January 12, someone asked Senate Judiciary Chair Patrick Leahy, “In the wake of [the mass shooting in Tucson] last weekend, do you...
China and India Fight Each Other and Christianity
The civilizations of China and India are two of the oldest in human history. Archeologists have found Bronze Age Indian artifacts from about 3,300 B.C. in the Indus River...