Opinion

Movie Review: “The Dark Knight Rises”

The Dark Knight Rises proves to be an excellent conclusion to the "Batman" trilogy. Well-constructed and comprised of a number of positive elements,...

Raven Clabough July 21, 2012

Obama’s Rhetoric

Thomas Sowell July 20, 2012

Barack Obama's great rhetorical gifts include the ability to make the absurd sound not only plausible, but inspiring and profound. His latest verbal...

Obama Called Our Most “Toxic” President

Wallis W. Wood July 20, 2012

Rev. Jeremiah Wright told Ed Klein (author of The Amateur: Barack Obama in the White House) that, back in 2008, Barack Obama had...

Handicaps and Handicapped Thinking

Selwyn Duke July 20, 2012

Fairness is ensured only when we recognize and apply eternal principles. More and more, however, they — and even obvious physical reality —...

Michigan Parents Sue Schools for Failing to Teach Their Kids to Read

Sam Blumenfeld July 20, 2012

A group of parents in Highland Park, Michigan, have sued the public schools in their district for failing to teach their children to...

The Leftist Attack on Achievement

Thomas Sowell July 19, 2012

There was a time, within living memory, when the achievements of others were not only admired but were often taken as an inspiration...

William Graham Sumner: A Conservative Critique of Egalitarianism

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. July 19, 2012

Those of us who love liberty, regardless of whether we call ourselves libertarians or conservatives, know all too well the depths of intellectual...

Lemonade Stands Find Government Hurts, Rather Than Helps, Business

Bruce Walker July 18, 2012

President Obama recently commented that business success relied upon government to succeed. Operators of lemonade stands, however, have found govenrment an obstacle, not...

Where Obama is Right about Unearned Success

Selwyn Duke July 18, 2012

When Barack Obama said recently, “If you’ve been successful, you didn’t get there on your own,” he wasn’t all wrong. In fact, he...

Jay Carney: Obama Stimulus Broke “the Back of the Recession”

Brian Koenig July 18, 2012

Last week, White House Press Secretary Jay Carney made a bold assertion: President Obama’s 2009 economic stimulus law is “widely recognized to have...

Steny Hoyer: Food Stamps, Welfare Programs Stimulate the Economy

Brian Koenig July 18, 2012

As a contentious “farm” bill rages in Congress, House Minority Whip Steny Hoyer (D-Md.) argued Tuesday that unemployment insurance and food stamps (which...

California’s Pension Plan (CalPERS) Made a Paltry 1 Percent in Past Year

Bob Adelmann July 17, 2012

Monday's report from the California Employees’ Retirement System (CalPERS) contained two numbers that are spelling out the death spiral of that plan: too...