Red Herring Politics
In an election year, this is the time for an "October surprise" — some sensational, and usually irrelevant, revelation to distract the voters...
Opinion
Bush Left Budget Surplus — in Iraq
If you are still wondering what, besides endless wars and astronomical growth in federal...
Obama on Jobs: Flip-floppin’ & Flying Blind
The rhetoric at the White House radically changed on September 27. The event was...
The Social Network: A Picture of the Face Behind Facebook
In early 2004, Mark Zuckerberg founded Thefacebook.com in a dorm room at the not-so-humble...
On Theologians as Blind Guides
Those who would cling to the kind of bliss ignorance brings would be well...
Young Men Think Old Men Are Fools
George Chapman observed, in 1605, “Young men think old men are fools.” (1) So...
Review of Sowell’s “Dismantling America”
Leading economist and writer Thomas Sowell has a talent for simplifying difficult concepts and...
Prominent British Editor Apologizes for Defense of Fed
The high-profile international-business editor of the U.K. Telegraph, Ambrose Evans-Pritchard, shocked and pleased readers...
Backfiring of Obama’s Economics of “Fairness”
We raise taxes on things we want to discourage, like cigarettes, and we lower...
The Coming Third Trillion-dollar Bailout: The States
It was appropriate for Meredith Whitney to title her latest 600-page report for her...
Liberals Confuse Me
Christine O'Donnell, U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware, has faced considerable criticism and news media...
Learn or Else
Barack Obama, that noted educational authority who’s taught public school for decades, has again...
Bank Failures: 127 Down, 800 to Go
When Zacks Equity Research announced on Monday the failure of two more banks in...
Legend of the Guardians: 3D Tour De Force
Legend of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, directed by Zack Snyder, is an...
Many Stimulus-created Jobs May Soon Vanish
Remember all those jobs the stimulus law supposedly created? Well, “tens of thousands” of...
Review of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps
Watching Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is analogous to viewing James Cameron’s 1997 hit,...