Bad Economics & Medicine
ITEM: In an article entitled "5 Myths About Our Ailing Health-Care System" in the Washington Post for November 23, 2008, Shannon Brownlee and Ezekiel Emanuel write that the United...
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Bernanke’s Money Maneuvers
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke's radical policies have prompted alarm that they might worsen our economic recession/depression. ...
Auto Bailout: Lemon or Lemonade?
Will the bailout of the Big Three automakers — General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler — refresh the auto industry or further sour the economy? ...
Bretton Woods
While WWII raged in 1944, 44 delegations met to create a world currency, bank, and trade organization. They fell short of that goal, but what will happen this time?...
Jimmie Vaughan: The Rhythm & Blues of America
Famed Blues guitarist Jimmie Vaughan tells about his involvement in the movement to restore our constitutional republic. ...
The War on Christmas
Because "public life" now entails virtually every part of our lives, erasing references to God entirely from public life means virtually eliminating them from America. ...
Free-market Thinkers
With bailouts and other unabashed socialist projects being embraced by both political parties to "save our economy," has free-market economics been proved faulty? ...
Making Renewable Energy Practical
Can we reliably, efficiently, and economically store energy to make solar and wind power viable options to replace fossil-fuel or nuclear plants? ...
Piling Bailouts Upon Bailouts
ITEM: The New York Times for October 31 reported: "As the Treasury Department prepares a $40 billion program to help delinquent homeowners avoid foreclosure, it confronts a difficult challenge:...
The Bailout and the Constitution
The $700 billion bank bailout plan will use taxpayer money to purchase troubled assets. How does this stack up against the limited federal powers granted by the Constitution? ...
The Hard Truth of Hard Money
In our Republic's youth, presidential candidates openly debated central banking, and Andrew Jackson even won election as a "hard-money" advocate. Today's economic crisis requires a similar return to sound...
Border Patrol Agents Compean, Ramos Still in Prison
Unjustly imprisoned Border Patrol agents Jose Compean and Ignacio Ramos lost their final appeal for a new trial in July. The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals reversed only an...
In a Free Market, Money Doesn’t Grow on Trees
Supporters of big government have been blaming the current economic crisis on the free market. We shoot down five of their anti-free-market fallacies and show where the fault really...
North Korean Blackmail Beats the U.S. Blacklist
ITEM: In an article entitled "U.S. says North Korea stuck to nuclear promises," Reuters reported on October 17: "North Korea has kept its promise and reversed steps to restart...
Liberty From Global-warming Alarmism
When students are being deluged with global-warming propaganda, they desperately need life preservers. Here are some truth-filled DVDs that will help them stay afloat. ...