Opinion

Waiving Freedom: Obama’s Exercise of Arbitrary Power

Dare we risk how far President Obama will go when he never has to face the voters again, and can appoint Supreme Court...

Thomas Sowell November 6, 2012

Gross Misconceptions About Jobs and Unemployment

Thomas Sowell November 6, 2012

How many times have we heard about how many jobs have been added during the Obama administration? Yet few people bother to find...

Why Education “Standards” Don’t Work

Sam Blumenfeld November 6, 2012

While intelligent CEOs had thought they had found a way of reforming American education, they were totally unaware that left-wing, progressive educators were...

Barack Obama: Anatomy of an Ideologue

Selwyn Duke November 5, 2012

If we focus on whether a given candidate is bent on doing what we consider evil, others, knowing the truth that people virtually...

The Argument Against “the Lesser of Two Evils” Debunked

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. November 5, 2012

I consider — and repudiate — the notion that a vote for Mitt Romney is a vote for "the lesser of two evils"...

Here Come the Taxes: In Every Aspect of our Lives

Jack Kenny November 5, 2012

On January 1, 2013, many new taxes are set to begin. Unless Congress and the White House can agree by year's end on...

The Progressive Educators’ Plan to Socialize America

Sam Blumenfeld November 5, 2012

Most Americans who have become aware of the academic and moral decline of public education tend to believe that the humanistic curriculum that...

Should Sandy’s Victims Get Your Tax Money?

Selwyn Duke November 2, 2012

How can we characterize government disaster aid? Well, we now complain about a crony capitalism through which Uncle Sam “picks winners and losers,”...

Movie Review: Flight

Raven Clabough November 2, 2012

Flight is a powerfully redemptive film that highlights the disastrous effects that substance abuse can have on one’s life. Denzel Washington aptly portrays...

Life without FEMA?

Sheldon Richman November 2, 2012

If you wonder what life would be like without a particular government agency, it is not enough simply to subtract the agency from...

Republicans at Their Best and Their Worst

Laurence M. Vance November 1, 2012

Thanks to the liberal Independents Joe Lieberman of Connecticut and Bernie Sanders of Vermont, the Democrats have controlled the U.S. Senate since the...

When 16-year-olds Can Vote

Selwyn Duke November 1, 2012

A desire to extend suffrage to younger adolescents is nothing new. A few nations have already made the move, and approximately half of...

The Education Reform Racket

Sam Blumenfeld November 1, 2012

Education reform in this country has essentially been a giant racket, deceiving the American people into thinking they are getting better education for...

Enough Spent on Welfare in 2011 to Give Every Poor Household Nearly $60,000

John Larabell October 31, 2012

According to an October 16 memorandum prepared by the Congressional Research Service (CRS) for the Senate Budget Committee, the federal government spent $746...