Opinion

What’s Behind the Fight Over Hagel for Defense?

Okay, so what's behind the battle over the Hagel nomination? With all the talk we have heard and all that has been written...

Jack Kenny January 15, 2013

Liberalism Versus Blacks

Thomas Sowell January 15, 2013

There is no question that liberals do an impressive job of expressing concern for blacks. But do the intentions expressed in their words...

Gold Standard Arguments Being Promoted Again

Bob Adelmann January 14, 2013

Two years ago Steve Forbes, two-time candidate for nomination for president by the Republican Party and editor of Forbes magazine, predicted “a return to the...

VA Hospitals: Everything That’s Wrong With Government Healthcare

Robert Confer January 14, 2013

Recently, more than 570 veterans in upstate New York received some dire news that could be classified as tragic irony: After they have...

The Real Root of School Violence

Tom DeWeese January 14, 2013

In the brave new world of the very near future, children will enter their public schools passing police checkpoints, surveillance cameras, metal detectors,...

The Hagel Brouhaha

Sheldon Richman January 13, 2013

The anti-Hagel hysteria carries a message different from the one getting all the attention: If Hagel is “out of the mainstream” of foreign-policy...

Ten Piers Morgan Gun Lies, Untruths, and Deceptions

Selwyn Duke January 12, 2013

It’s probably not quite true that gun-control advocate Piers Morgan has been “standing on the graves of the children of Sandy Hook,” as...

Letter to a Lost Unitarian

Jack Kenny January 12, 2013

I e-mail back to an old schoolmate who has said she's a Unitarian atheist, explaining why her Godless doctrines are potentially cruel, tyrannical,...

Marco Rubio: No Conservative

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. January 11, 2013

It is shown that from his positions on various issues, Marco Rubio is just as much a proponent of Big Government as any...

Not So Fast, Governor Christie

Wallis W. Wood January 11, 2013

Did you see where New Jersey Governor Chris Christie lit into Speaker John Boehner and the Republican-controlled House of Representatives for delaying a...

When Kids and Guns Mix

Selwyn Duke January 11, 2013

What happens when kids and guns mix? Well, kids and their guns have sometimes been mixing it up with criminals — and coming...

James M. Buchanan, Nobel Prize Winner in Economics, Passes at 93

Bob Adelmann January 10, 2013

The passing of scholar James Buchanan stills the voice of one who understood the fact that men, without Constitutional constraints, will vote themselves...