Do We Need Four Political Parties?
Is America destined to move from a two party system to a three or four party system? Is it moving towards a political system without political parties at all?...
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Is Belgium the Next Domino?
The dominoes in Europe are falling — at least that is one interpretation of the latest Standard & Poor’s outlook on the government bonds of Belgium. The ratio of...
Breyer Suggests Second Amendment Out of Date
Supreme Court Justice Stephen Breyer, speaking this past weekend on Fox News Sunday, declared that the Founding Fathers did not intend firearms to go unregulated. Breyer was one of...
Oil Prices Spike Thanks to Government
Government rules by command and not consent. The marketplace represents the rational valuation of things based upon mutual consent. Because the power of the state is a “jealous god,”...
Is Your Gold Safe in the Bank?
More and more people in affluent societies are turning to gold as a hedge against irresponsible government financial policies. It cannot make these people more comfortable that, in Europe,...
Chinese Government Squeezes “House Christians”
China has declared that so-called “House Christians” are a cult and must be suppressed. The State Administration for Religious Affairs, which is the Communist watchdog agency in China responsible...
Bank of Ireland Has “Glitches” on Day of Budget Vote
Ireland has been following the path of Greece and Spain: Increasingly more of the national economy is, effectively, mortgaged to international organizations that are keeping the financial systems of...
Hugo Chavez Blames Bad Weather on Capitalism
Mark Twain, one of America’s greatest satirists, once observed, “Everybody talks about the weather, but nobody does anything about it." Marxists, however, believe that man can do anything and...
Polish President Celebrates Hanukkah with Polish Jews
Poland has been historically one of the most serious Christian nations in the world. Lech Welesa, the leader of Solidarity, and Pope John Paul II honorably and effectively used...
The New York Times and Journalistic Ethics
The New York Times has long maintained a pseudo-aristocratic attitude toward American society. Its nicely manicured contents, which seem to ooze respectability, hide the fact that its history is...
Small Gold Buyers Face Big Government Burdens
Gold has always been the bane of big government planners. The precious metal has, from time immemorial, constituted real and portable wealth. Diamonds have, too, but expertise is required...
Russian Admission of Katyn Leaves Unanswered Questions
Seventy years after the dastardly deed, Russian officials officially acknowledged that Stalin, brutal dictator of the Soviet Union, personally ordered the massacre of 20,000 Polish officers and other notables...
Europe’s Finance Woes Widen
The sludge of spendthrift government is spreading across the continent of Europe. In Greece, public employees staged protests even though an actuarial analysis revealed that public employee pensions were...
One Rule for Politically Powerful, Another for Us at Airports
The Constitution explicitly prohibits titles of nobility. Members of government in America were intended to be citizens and not rulers. The last thing our Founding Fathers wanted was a...
Irish Government Near Collapse from Debt Crisis
The financial crisis in Europe, which paralyzed Iceland, which sent Greece into a spiral of angry confrontations with public employees unions, which is tottering Portugal and Spain, and which...
New Jersey Politician Goes to Prison for “Consulting Fee”
Daniel Van Pelt, a former member of the New Jersey State Legislature, has been given 41 months in a federal prison for accepting at $10,000 bribe to help a...
Haitians Riot Over UN Cholera “Gift”
The United Nations, an organization whose first Secretary General was Alger Hiss, a Soviet spy embedded in the federal government, almost never even appears to solve any of the...
Rep. Mica Urges Private Security for Airports
John Mica, a Republican congressman from Florida, has written a letter to 100 of the busiest airports in the country. Congressman Mica has asked those airports to stop using...
Napolitano Sees Security Through Statist Lenses
Secretary Janet Napolitano has written an opinion piece defending her cabinet office, the Department of Homeland Security, and its tactics allegedly needed to prevent terrorist attacks on American airline...
California Supreme Court Holds Illegals Can Attend College at In-State Rates
The California Supreme Court reversed a lower state court ruling that struck down a 2001 California law providing that in-state illegal-alien residents could pay much lower college fees than...