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...
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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...
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...
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...