“Old Fashioned”: Black and White Values in an Age of Shades of Grey
For this Valentine's Day weekend, moviegoers looking for a date-night movie with their significant other have a choice between two extremes. On one...
Opinion
Good Intentions, Bad Results
In their book Common Sense Economics, four university teachers specializing in economics and public policy warn that a “nation of economic illiterates” is...
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Will Hillary Be Hurt by Williams Episode?
Disappointed Americans in great numbers see no reason to sweep the Williams mendacity under a rug. It remains to be seen how many...
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Vaccinations and Parental Rights
Why are so many well-educated parents refusing to have their infants immunized against Hepatitis B, measles, mumps, and rubella (M.M.R.), as well as...
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Brian Williams Helped Pave the Way to War
Of course so-called news people shouldn’t make up stuff to look good, but there’s something much worse: uncritically passing along official lies intended...
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It’s Way Past Time to Audit the Fed
An honest audit of the Fed could lead to its eventual demise and the return in America to real money backed by a...
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Economic Fairness and Justice
There are hundreds, possibly thousands, of examples in which the economic game is rigged. Instead of focusing on what's claimed to be an...
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U.S. Government’s Interest Costs to Quadruple in 10 Years
On Tuesday, the Wall Street Journal reported that the federal government will be paying $800 billion annually just to service the interest on...
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Obama’s War on Our Energy Independence
Preventing the Keystone pipeline from being completed is only part of the war that Obama is conducting against energy independence in this country....
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Stormy Weather and Politics
It was refreshing to see meteorologists apologize for their dire — and wrong — predictions of an unprecedented snow storm that they had...
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Tragic School Stories
Simply calling for more school resources will produce disappointing results. There are several minimum requirements that must be met for any child to...
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True Unemployment Rate Is Far Higher Than 5.6 Percent
Americans may not be too surprised to learn that the 5.6 percent unemployment rate the U.S. Department of Labor is touting is entirely...
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Egypt’s Leader Pinpoints a Real Enemy of Peace
Egyptian leader Abdel Fattah el-Sisi deserves admiration for attempting to reverse the gathering storm presented by militant Islamists. ...
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Alabama Chief Justice Defiant Over Same-sex Marriage Rulings
Alabama Chief Justice Roy Moore just sent a letter to Alabama Governor Robert Bentley urging defiance of “judicial tyranny,” specifically asking the governor...
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Obama Versus America
In his recent trip to India, President Obama repeated a long-standing pattern of his — denigrating the United States to foreign audiences. He...
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