Financial News in Southern Europe Generally Grim
The latest financial news from Europe may fall into the “good news, bad news” category — although the “good news” simply means that things have not fallen apart as...
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Seventy-Five Years After Stalin’s Great “Operation Kulak” Reign of Terror
Seventy-five years ago, on August 5, 1937, one of the most horrific — and most ignored — episodes in human history began. “Operation Kulak” ("kulak" meaning rich peasants) was the Soviet...
Recalling the End of the Fairness Doctrine
Twenty-five years ago this month, the Federal Communications Commission ended the “Fairness Doctrine,” which in the name of "fairness" infringed on the freedom of speech of radio and television...
New York Times Sees “Golden Lining” in Zimbabwe’s Brutal Marxist Rule
Lydia Polgreen of the New York Times recently suggested that the long and bloody rule of Zimbabwe's Marxist boss Robert Mugabe may have a “golden lining” for citizens...
An Argument for Privatizing Public Schools
Lew Rockwell has suggested a major change in how we educate our young: End public education, at least as an experiment in a few communities, and see real education...
Colorado Company Fights to Maintain Catholic Values
Hercules Industries in Colorado is a family company and it offers good jobs and generous benefits to its employees. But it does not want the federal government compelling it to...
Social Scientists Find Traditional Marriage a Cure for Poverty
While many Americans who take the traditional Judeo-Christian values of America seriously have extolled the virtues of a happy marriage, economists and social scientists — many of them studying the...
Seventy-five Years After FDR’s Court-packing Scheme Failed
Seventy-five years ago President Franklin D. Roosevelt tried to pack the Supreme Court in order to insure that his extra-constitutional New Deal policies would be upheld. But though FDR's...
Poland: Bishops, Pro-Family Organizations Resist Redefinition of Gender
The Council of Europe convention is attempting to redefine “gender” to mean "the socially constructed roles, behaviors, activities and attributes that a given society considers appropriate for women and...
Lemonade Stands Find Government Hurts, Rather Than Helps, Business
President Obama recently commented that business success relied upon government to succeed. Operators of lemonade stands, however, have found govenrment an obstacle, not an aid, to success. ...
High Income Frenchmen Look to Flee Higher Taxes
Francois Hollande, the new socialist president of France, plans to reduce his nation's deficit by "soaking the rich," but high income Frenchmen may not stay around to be soaked....
Moody’s Downgrades Italian Bonds Again
Moody’s Investors Service announced on July 12 that it was downgrading Italian government bonds by two notches in response to the continuing financial problems of Europe. The Italian bond...
Nebraska To Revise Controversial School Social Studies Standards
As the Nebraska Board of Education presented its proposal for social studies standards in public schools this year, it was met with firm resistance from concerned citizens, who pointed...
Chinese Economy Continues to Weaken
If Americans are looking at the Chinese economy to lift the United States out of recession, it would be prudent to look somewhere else. The second quarter GDP statistics...
Solar Fireworks Disrupt Europe’s Radio Communications
The solar flares erupting from a giant sunspot group during the first week of July were certainly on a much larger scale than America's fireworks displays celebrating the Fourth...
Bankruptcies of Federally Backed Green Energy Companies Continue
The Obama administration's problems continue to mount because of its financial support of the so-called green industry. Perhaps the most well-known example of such boondoggles is the solar panel...
Federal Judge Blocks Mississippi Abortion Clinic Law
Federal District Court Judge Daniel P. Jordan III has blocked — pending a full hearing on July 11 — the enforcement of a law passed in Mississippi's last legislative session that would require...
July 1, 1937: Gestapo Arrests Protestant Resistance Leader Bishop Niemöeller
Seventy-five years ago in Nazi Germany, on July 1, 1937, the Gestapo arrested war hero and champion of Protestant resistance Bishop Martin Niemöeller, and the lines were clear: Hitler...
More Banks — 11 in Brazil — Face Credit Downgrades
Moody’s downgraded the credit ratings of 11 Brazilian banks on June 27. Some banks had reductions of a single level, but some went down three levels. This action was tied to the sovereign...
German Court: Circumcision of Young Boys Constitutes “Illegal Bodily Harm”
A regional court in Cologne, Germany, has determined that religious circumcision of young boys constitutes “illegal bodily harm,” even when performed with the consent of the parents, and that...