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...
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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,...
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...
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...