Rebels Against Party Leaders
Those who believe that the Tea Party movement will simply be a convenient flack for the Republican establishment have received rude awakenings in the last few weeks. ...
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Cuba Objects to Arizona Law
The Arizona law requiring that federal immigration laws be enforced has aroused overwhelming support among the American people. Those who oppose the Arizona law embrace a motley group. Cities...
Showdown in New Jersey
New Jersey government, according to almost every objective observer, is badly broken. The pay and the pensions of state employees are a primary problem. Governor Chris Christie of New...
Illegal Immigrants Camp Out in McCain’s Office
On May 17, four young immigrant students staged a sit-in at Senator John McCain’s Tucson Office. The students were demanding that McCain support federal legislation to allow illegal immigrants...
Psychiatry Enters Dangerous Territory
The new fourth revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) published by the American Psychiatric Association may define several new psychiatric disorders. Some of these...
Press Freedom in the New Russia
The corruption of communism still haunts Russia. Contrary to much Marxist mythology, Russia under the Romanovs was not horrible. The Russian economy was growing at a faster rate than...
Greek Socialist Blames American Banks for Crisis
Greece, a nation wrecked by very costly public employees unions, which has yet to earn the full confidence even of the other nations in the European Union, has discovered...
IRS Stretches Deeper Into America
The 2006 Pension Protection Act, which passed and became law, has a provision that requires all non-profit organizations to file an annual income tax return with the IRS. Under...
Vandals Do What ACLU Could Not
Those men and women who have given their final breath to the defense of America deserve surely deserve respect from all Americans. We may disagree about the cause of...
Drug Recalls and Private Enterprise
McNeil Consumer Healthcare, which is a division of the Johnson and Johnson Corporation, recalled 43 different over-the-counter children’s medications. This action was taken after an FDA inspection showed that...
The Second Amendment in National Parks
The Second Amendment prohibits Congress from passing laws that interfere with a citizen’s right to bear arms. A recent amendment proposed by Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) to the “Protecting...
Clubbed With a Cliché: Tea Party Racists?
Tea Party groups around the country are facing an all too familiar attack: racism. The evidence presented is highly circumstantial. A disproportionately large percentage of Tea Party members appear...
The New Frugality
Long term caution is affecting the economic decisions of millions of baby boomers. The continued growth of investment values led millions of Americans in their early 60s to indulge...
Many Latinos Favor Enforcing the Law
The controversy surrounding efforts by the State of Arizona to enforce federal laws against illegal immigration is usually presented as a conflict between those Americans who like Latinos in...
Prosecutorial Misconduct and Corrupted Justice
Prosecutorial misconduct is becoming uncomfortably familiar to Americans. The Duke Lacrosse Lynching, for example, showed how easily politicized justice or “social justice” can become injustice. As laws increasingly tend...
Newspaper Circulation Continues Decline
Newspapers are dying. That is the message from the latest Audit Bureau of Circulations, an independent firm that checks the average circulation of various print periodicals. The average drop...
Rangel Faces Opposition from Powell in Harlem
Congressman Charles Rangel, Chairman of the powerful House Ways and Means Committee, surrendered his chairmanship temporally on March 3 because of a number of ethical violations, which have historically...
Just Politicians in British Election
While no one yet knows how the British general election of 2010 will end, one thing is sure: there will be no powerful guiding principle which will emerge from...
Minors and Violent Video Games
The Supreme Court has decided to hear an appeal of a Circuit Court decision in February of last year to strike down a California statute that bans the sale...
California Discourages Standardized Testing
Standardized tests are not a perfect tool to measure academic achievement or intellectual ability. But standardized tests represent a serious attempt to objectively determine how much a student has...