China Curbing Appetite for U.S. Debt
China is finally being forced to curb her appetite for U.S. government debt, according to the New York Times. China, which last September overtook Japan as the largest international...
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Obama’s New Course: More of the Same
President Bush leaves office amidst the greatest economic calamity in several generations, perhaps ever. The federal budget deficit is poised to triple last year's record $400 billion, rising to...
Jobs’ Health and Apple’s Stock
On Monday Apple's stock rose dramatically, gaining 4.22 percent by the end of trading and closing at $94.58. Analysts attribute this dramatic rise to an announcement made today by...
Bailing Out Chrysler Becoming a Bad Habit
The federal government handouts to the auto industry continued over the weekend with the announcement of a $4 billion bridge loan to Chrysler LLC to help keep the Big...
Spain’s Labor Reforms Cut Unemployment
Labor-market regulations and high taxes associated with hiring workers typically lead to high unemployment figures. Not least was this the case in many European nations before reforms began being...
Valkyrie: The Real Col. von Stauffenberg
On a sultry July day in 1944, a man walks into the "Wolf's Lair" carrying a briefcase. He is initiating a bold plot, one that aims to assassinate one...
Slovakia Adopts the Euro
On January 1, 2009, Slovakia became the first former Soviet-bloc country to adopt the Euro as its national currency. Once the "-slovakia" in "Czechoslovakia," Slovakia, already a member of...
GM Bailout a Sop to Cerberus?
The recent decision by the federal government to bail out GMAC, the financing arm of General Motors, encouraged the illusion that the federal government has decided to "rescue" the...
Birch Society’s Robert Welch Was Correct on Castro
Both before and after Fidel Castro came to power in Cuba on January 1, 1959, the major media in America portrayed him as a champion of the Cuban people...
Gaza Crisis Should be Avoided by U.S.
The ongoing Israeli attacks on the Palestinian-occupied and controlled Gaza Strip have provoked indignation worldwide, as flare-ups in that corner of the globe usually do. The status of the...
That Thing Called Feminism
Sometimes the apple does fall far from the tree, and sometimes that's a good thing. You may not know the name Rebecca Walker, but she is a woman who...
Press Freedom Threatened in Germany
New legislation that passed last month in the lower House of Germany's parliament, the Bundestag, is being criticized by opponents who say it is an effort to create a...
Run Auto Companies? “We Cannot Even Run the Government,” Ensign Says
Senator John Ensign (R-Nev.) wonders how the government could successfully run the Big Three automakers when it cannot even run itself. On December 11, before the $14 billion bailout...
Imprisoned for Seven Years Without Being Charged
Consider this incredible sequence of events. A young American citizen was invited to study in a Middle Eastern country. Having arrived there, the dictatorship running the country kidnapped him...
Bush Says Saddam Hussein Was Not Connected to 9/11
Addressing the Saban Forum on December 5, President George W. Bush stated: "It is true, as I've said many times, that Saddam Hussein was not connected to the 9/11...