Opinion

Bill Cosby on Culture: Very Right and Very, Very Wrong

Comedian Bill Cosby spent years rendering fatherly advice on the hit sitcom The Cosby Show, but in recent times has received more press...

Selwyn Duke June 11, 2013

The Path That the Patriot Act Paved

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. June 11, 2013

It is at once exasperating and laughable that the very same people who indefatigably defended the so-called “Patriot Act” now act shocked that...

S&P Issues an Upgrade of U.S. Sovereign Debt Along With a Warning

Bob Adelmann June 11, 2013

The announcement by Standard & Poor's on Monday that it is revising its outlook upward is not only useless but counterproductive. ...

Economics vs. “Need”

Thomas Sowell June 11, 2013

One of the most common arguments for allowing more immigration is that there is a "need" for foreign workers to do "jobs that...

Sex and the Military

Thomas Sowell June 11, 2013

For thousands of years, people around the world had the common sense to realize that putting young men and young women together in...

A Response to Rich Lowry’s “Conservative” Defense of Abraham Lincoln II

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. June 11, 2013

In his book Lincoln Unbound, National Review editor Rich Lowry says in essence that either we join him in revering the 16th president...

Self-proclaimed Economic Wizards

Ralph R. Reiland June 11, 2013

With the U.S. economy in its slowest job-market recovery since World War II and still 2.6 million jobs short from its payroll peak...

The Schools’ Sinister War on Guns

Selwyn Duke June 10, 2013

Call it living in Upside-down Land or the realization of the Bible’s prediction of a time when bad will be called good and...

Predictive Analytics: The Power to Predict Human Behavior

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. June 9, 2013

In light of recent revelations of wholesale spying on American citizens by the National Security Agency (NSA), significant media attention has focused on...

Obama to Ignore Senate, Sign 2nd Amendment-Violating UN Gun Treaty

Wallis W. Wood June 8, 2013

This past Monday, Secretary of State John Kerry said that Obama will sign a controversial gun-control treaty promulgated by the United Nations. “We...

A Response to Rich Lowry’s “Conservative” Defense of Abraham Lincoln

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. June 7, 2013

Rich Lowry, editor of National Review, purports to defend Abraham Lincoln from right-wing detractors, but he succeeds merely at making ad hominem attacks...