McCain Urges War on Syria
The dogs of war are straining at the leash once again. Senator John McCain, who never met a military intervention he didn’t like, is now calling for the United...
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Anarchy Draws Near as Greece Flirts With Default
The debt chickens are coming home to roost in Greece, and the hen house is collapsing. As the hard-pressed Greek parliament convened to vote on an enormously unpopular austerity...
Is It Nuts to Let Iran Go Nuclear?
On the morning of January 11, Mostafa Ahmadi Roshan, a 32-year-old chemist from Sharif University in Tehran, was riding in a Peugeot 405 along Shahid Golnabi Street in eastern...
Forbes: United States of Europe Coming Soon
A United States of Europe — minus recalcitrant Great Britain — is nearly upon us; thus saith Forbes magazine. “The euro, in its old form, has fallen into crisis...
Europe’s Latest Attempt to Save the Euro Long on Rhetoric, Short on Promise
Investors are bullish on Europe yet again after a two-day summit in Brussels produced a triumphant agreement on the part of the 17 eurozone member nations to get their...
Banks Prepare for the Worst as Europe’s Downward Spiral Continues
The European crisis continues to mushroom, even as Eurocrats meet in Brussels to try to stave off implosion of the eurozone. Tuesday’s sale of Italian debt forced the government...
Financial Endgame in Europe
By every appearance, we are entering the final, calamitous act of the European debt crisis, a sprawling, slow-motion debacle that is about to engulf the world in financial turmoil...
Cain’s 9-9-9: Same Recipe, Different Topping
Faced with widespread criticism of his once-vaunted “9-9-9” tax scheme, former pizza maker Herman Cain has changed a few ingredients. 9-9-9, readers will recall, was an attempt to simplify...
Police Protection and Power
No extended society has ever existed without some form of law enforcement. However, it is important to understand that there are two very different approaches to maintaining public order....
National Review’s Latest Smear: Ron Paul and The John Birch Society
Although William F. Buckley, Jr., died more than three and a half years ago, his spirit clearly lives on in the National Review, the neoconservative political magazine he founded...
Federal Government Turns on the Banks It Bailed Out
After spending hundreds of billions to bail them out, the federal government is now turning on the big banks it once protected. Earlier this month, the Federal Housing Finance...
Federal Reserve to Bail Out European Banks (Again!)
To the list of mega-corporations bailed out by the U.S. government, we now must add — Europe. In an announcement that rocked financial markets worldwide, the European Central Bank...
Obama: More Govt Needed to Help Economy
Where has all of America’s labor gone? Following the announcement that the economy added no new jobs in the month of August, President Obama’s Labor Day politicking with GM...
Netting Newfoundland’s Prosperity
Sometime in the early summer of 1497, a small caravel, the Matthew, with a crew of 18 men, spied land after weeks of perilous sailing across the dangerous, then-unknown...
Second Chance in Debt Deluge
With the raising of the debt ceiling, the “official” federal debt immediately surged past a new and unwelcome benchmark: The national debt now exceeds 100 percent of the gross...