Opinion

Film Review: “Amazing Spiderman” Earns $140M in First Six Days

When fans of the Spiderman movie franchise learned that the film would retell Spiderman's story and recast it, as compared to the recent...

Raven Clabough July 9, 2012

Attention Deficit Disorder and Other School Quackeries

Sam Blumenfeld July 9, 2012

The purpose of drugging kids with Ritalin, Adderall, and other similar medications is to relieve the disruptive hyperactive behavior these children exhibit in...

Baseball’s All-Time All-Stars

Thomas Sowell July 9, 2012

Nothing is likely to get an argument started among sports fans faster than attempts to name the all-time greatest in any sport, or...

Obama’s ObamaCare “Victory” Could Spell His Defeat

Wallis W. Wood July 8, 2012

So Chief Justice John Roberts joined the liberal wing of the Supreme Court to decide that ObamaCare, including the hugely unpopular “mandate,” is...

How American Public Education Has Become a Criminal Enterprise (Part 3)

Sam Blumenfeld July 6, 2012

Contributing to the delinquency of a minor has long been considered a crime. Parents who have permitted teenagers to drink liquor at parties...

Teaching Economics

Thomas Sowell July 5, 2012

Having taught economics at a number of colleges for a number of years, I especially welcomed a feature article in the June 22nd...

How American Public Education Has Become a Criminal Enterprise (Part 2)

Sam Blumenfeld July 5, 2012

In the first part of this article we wrote about crimes committed by the educators against individual children. But these same educators are...

Wisconsin Is Only the Beginning

Thomas R. Eddlem July 5, 2012

The recent public-employee union controversy in Wisconsin is part of a global phenomenon, and every U.S. government unit will face the same crisis. Governor...

Workers Receiving Federal Disability Surpasses Population of NYC

Brian Koenig July 5, 2012

The number of workers receiving federal disability insurance payments has spiked by more than 26,000 over the past month, bringing the total sum up to a record...

Latest ADP Jobs Report Confirms Slowing Economy

Bob Adelmann July 5, 2012

Looking behind the numbers Thursday's ADP report reveals an economy that is flat-lined, heading into recession. When June’s numbers are compared to January’s, ADP’s...

Are Americans Not Submissive Enough?

Sheldon Richman July 4, 2012

“I don’t know if America has a leadership problem; it certainly has a followership problem,” New York Times columnist David Brooks laments. “Vast...

Supreme Court’s Word Game Saves ObamaCare

Sheldon Richman July 3, 2012

Chief Justice John Roberts’s opinion regarding the constitutionality of ObamaCare holds that the penalty for not complying with the mandate is both a...