Ireland’s Financial Woes Widen European Union Crisis
Ireland is one of many nations within the European Union that faces profound doubts about its ability to maintain its financial credibility. During the last several days, ministers of...
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Are Illegals Headed Back Home?
BBVA Bancomer Research has produced a study that indicates that since Arizona enacted Senate Bill 1070, which provides for state law enforcement officers to enforce federal immigration laws, that...
Will Hyper-Inflation “Solve” States’ Debt Woes?
California is drowning in public debt. The California Legislative Analyst’s office, which is nominally nonpartisan and objective, projects that for the fiscal year ending June 30, 2011, the state...
Mineral Wealth – Outside the Reach of Government
Environmentalists do not seek control of just the U.S. economy; they seek international control as well. The oceans, however, remain largely free. Here may be the last true frontier...
Chavez Expropriates Private Property in Venezuela
Hugo Chavez, the brutal Marxist leader of Venezuela, has faced a rocky road in his effort to emulate the career of Fidel Castro. The Venezuelan middle class, opposition newspapers...
Americans on Food Stamps Reach New High
The food-stamp program has grown dramatically during the last few years. The latest figures show that an incredible 42 million Americans are receiving food stamps — about 14 percent...
United Nations Brings Cholera to Haiti
The United Nations, touted by progressives for 60 years as the last best hope of mankind, has done almost no good anywhere at any time. Since the inception of...
Federal Mass Transit a Big Flop
Central planning seldom makes economic sense. However good a scheme looks on paper in some politician’s office, planned on the taxpayer’s dime, it's probably not worthwhile. If it really...
Repeal Direct Election of Senators?
Mike Lee, the Republican nominee for the Senate in the Utah election this year, supports repealing the 17th Amendment. “People would be better off if senators, when they deliver...
McDonald’s Liable for Fat Employees
The madness of the courts and the greed of trial lawyers are proverbial. The woman who won a huge award from McDonald’s when she spilled hot coffee on her...
Stimulus Dollars Leave America
Government never “stimulates” economic growth. Left quite alone, people engage in rational commerce guided only by enlightened self-interest. More crucially, government cannot predict the real consequences of its efforts...
Was Police Chief Fired for Tea Party Affiliation?
TexasFred, a conservative blogger, reports that West Tawakoni Mayor Pete Yoho has fired Officer Johnny Beckett from the city’s police department and also suspended for ten days without pay...
Willams’ Firing Reveals: Public Broadcasting is Naturally Corrupting
The ideologically motivated termination of Juan Williams by National Public Radio has drawn ire from many Americans. Government-owned, government-sponsored, and government-regulated media will almost always create an inclination to...
New York Study Finds Students Engage in Dangerous Sex
A study in the medical journal, Pediatrics, reported on Monday that 10 percent of the sexually active students in New York City schools had at least one homosexual partner...
Rand Paul, Christianity & Ad Hominem Attacks
The attacks on Rand Paul's Christianity because of an alleged college school prank are similar to those on Christine O'Donnell's presumed "witchcraft" of decades ago. Rand Paul's wife, Kelley,...
Did O’Donnell Read the Constitution Right?
Christine O’Donnell has come under criticism for stating that the language of the Constitution has nothing specific about the “separation of church and state.” ...
Strikes Threaten Sarkozy’s Plan to Raise Retirement Age
The decline of Europe continues. German Chancellor Angela Merkel has warned that permitting vast numbers of Muslim Turks into her country without their being assimilated into German society and...
San Diego Firefighters Exonerated in Gay Pride Parade Case
Four San Diego firefighters won a court battle in the California Court of Appeal for the Fourth Appellate District when the court upheld a jury verdict at the trial...
Political Correctness at Ole Miss
There are few bastions left against political correctness. Traditions, like the Confederate flag, have become highly controversial despite the fact that those who wish to honor that flag make...
Cambridge Schools Celebrate Muslim Holidays
Catholic Online reports that Cambridge, Massachusetts, will begin closing public schools for one Muslim holiday next year, with schools given two holidays, Eid al-Fitr or Eid al-Adah, to choose...