Opinion

A Recipe for Economic Growth in the New Year

With the beginning of a new year comes the hope for change. There is so much we could wish for — peace, the end...

Veronique de Rugy January 5, 2017

National Debt Increases by $1,054,647,941,626.91 in 2016

Warren Mass January 4, 2017

Data posted on the Treasury Department’s website indicates that the federal government’s total public debt outstanding increased by $1,054,647,941,626.9 during 2016. ...

Liberal Struggle Against Reality

Walter E. Williams January 4, 2017

We will never understand liberals and progressives until we recognize that they often see reality as a social construct subject to being challenged...

“German” Writer: Trump is Like Hitler — Despises Refugees, Women, Non-Christians

Selwyn Duke January 4, 2017

With all the focus today on eliminating “hate,” we should ask: Is it at all possible that labeling others “haters” could be motivated...

Good News: Washington Frozen Out of Syria Peace Plan

Ron Paul January 2, 2017

As the US mainstream media obsessed last week about Russia's supposed “hacking” of the US elections and President Obama’s final round of Russia...

Democrats Should’ve Known

Ralph R. Reiland December 31, 2016

Donald Trump's win shouldn't have been such a surprise to Democrats. In April 2008, for instance, presidential candidate Barack Obama talked about the...

New Year’s Resolution Wish List

Veronique de Rugy December 29, 2016

The new year is a time to make resolutions to improve your life over the next 12 months. This time around, there's a...

Thomas Sowell’s Classic “Wealth, Poverty and Politics”

Walter E. Williams December 28, 2016

Thomas Sowell has just published a revised and enlarged edition of his classic Wealth, Poverty and Politics. At the very beginning, he quotes Alexander...

Barack Backhands Bibi

Patrick J. Buchanan December 28, 2016

By abstaining on that Security Council resolution declaring Israeli settlements in the West Bank and East Jerusalem illegal and invalid, raged Bibi Netanyahu,...

Farewell

Thomas Sowell December 27, 2016

Even the best things come to an end. After enjoying a quarter of a century of writing this column for Creators Syndicate, I...

New Year’s Resolutions for Donald Trump and Congress

Ron Paul December 26, 2016

In the spirit of New Year’s, here are four resolutions for president-elect Trump and Congress that will enable them to really make America...

Kerry Must Move On

John F. McManus December 23, 2016

Secretary of State John Kerry isn’t giving up advocacy of liberalism and internationalism. That he’ll have to continue as a private citizen, not...

Europe’s Future — Merkel or Le Pen?

Patrick J. Buchanan December 23, 2016

Right-wing and anti-immigrant parties are succeeding in Europe for a simple reason. Mainstream parties are failing in the first duty of government — to protect...