Small Gold Buyers Face Big Government Burdens
Gold has always been the bane of big government planners. The precious metal has, from time immemorial, constituted real and portable wealth. Diamonds have, too, but expertise is required...
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Russian Admission of Katyn Leaves Unanswered Questions
Seventy years after the dastardly deed, Russian officials officially acknowledged that Stalin, brutal dictator of the Soviet Union, personally ordered the massacre of 20,000 Polish officers and other notables...
Europe’s Finance Woes Widen
The sludge of spendthrift government is spreading across the continent of Europe. In Greece, public employees staged protests even though an actuarial analysis revealed that public employee pensions were...
One Rule for Politically Powerful, Another for Us at Airports
The Constitution explicitly prohibits titles of nobility. Members of government in America were intended to be citizens and not rulers. The last thing our Founding Fathers wanted was a...
Irish Government Near Collapse from Debt Crisis
The financial crisis in Europe, which paralyzed Iceland, which sent Greece into a spiral of angry confrontations with public employees unions, which is tottering Portugal and Spain, and which...
New Jersey Politician Goes to Prison for “Consulting Fee”
Daniel Van Pelt, a former member of the New Jersey State Legislature, has been given 41 months in a federal prison for accepting at $10,000 bribe to help a...
Haitians Riot Over UN Cholera “Gift”
The United Nations, an organization whose first Secretary General was Alger Hiss, a Soviet spy embedded in the federal government, almost never even appears to solve any of the...
Rep. Mica Urges Private Security for Airports
John Mica, a Republican congressman from Florida, has written a letter to 100 of the busiest airports in the country. Congressman Mica has asked those airports to stop using...
Napolitano Sees Security Through Statist Lenses
Secretary Janet Napolitano has written an opinion piece defending her cabinet office, the Department of Homeland Security, and its tactics allegedly needed to prevent terrorist attacks on American airline...
California Supreme Court Holds Illegals Can Attend College at In-State Rates
The California Supreme Court reversed a lower state court ruling that struck down a 2001 California law providing that in-state illegal-alien residents could pay much lower college fees than...
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...
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...
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...
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...