Portugal Rating Downgrade Follows on Heels of Greece Bond Downgrade
Several weeks ago, Greece was on the point of collapse and the European Union needed to bail out the government. In November, Ireland, once the economic dynamo known as...
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Assessing the Impact of Reapportionment and Redistricting
The census data, along with the Republican gains in state legislatures and governorships, means that Democrats face a grim decade in House elections. Regions and states which historically have...
Replacing National Currencies With Euros Promotes European Mistrust
Citizens of nations that once were wholly independent and who now are part of the nebulous “European Union” pine for times lost. Bernd Niesel, a 67-year-old retired serviceman in...
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?...
They Still Hate Senator McCarthy
The Southern Poverty Legal Center, which might be interested in innocent Americans enduring state-sponsored sexual harassment in airports or the coercion on college campuses faced by Christian students, has...
Washington Suburbs Surviving Recession
America is in the throes of economic hardship. Certain regions of the country, the once thriving Great Lakes Region, the greatest industrial area in the world, and energy-producing states,...
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Breyer Suggests Second Amendment Out of Date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...