Opinion

North Dakota: A Study in How the Free Market Works

The continuing boom in North Dakota seemingly has no end. Last June oil production from the Bakken Formation exceeded 11 million barrels a...

Bob Adelmann March 13, 2012

What America Still Can Be

Sam Blumenfeld March 12, 2012

By all accounts, America at this time should be enjoying its greatest economic expansion and its greatest creation of wealth in its history....

Pie-in-the-Sky Energy Planning

Ralph R. Reiland March 12, 2012

“Somehow we have to figure out how to boost the price of gasoline to the levels of Europe,” said Dr. Steven Chu, director...

White House Jobs Growth Celebration is Premature

Bob Adelmann March 12, 2012

White House announcements celebrating the jobs report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) were optimistic: “Private sector employers added 233,000 jobs to...

ECRI Stays with Recession Call

Bob Adelmann March 12, 2012

When Lakshman Achuthan (left), co-founder of Economic Cycle Research Institute (ECRI) appeared on CNBC to defend his prediction last September of an “imminent”...

Alex Haley’s Fraudulent Roots

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. March 12, 2012

This year is the 35th anniversary of the ground-breaking television miniseries, Roots. Based on Alex Haley’s wildly successful novel, Roots: The Saga of...

February’s Deficit the Highest Ever

Charles Scaliger March 11, 2012

In yet another sign that the looming American debt crisis is close to spiraling out of control, February’s monthly federal deficit was the...

Pro Football’s Bounty System

Wallis W. Wood March 9, 2012

Remember in the classic movie Casablanca how Captain Louis Renault pretended to be amazed when he was informed that gambling took place at...

D.C. Receives $885M in Stimulus Money and Unemployment Rises

Brian Koenig March 9, 2012

Washington, D.C. raked in more than $885 million from President Obama’s economic stimulus package, but the D.C. government cannot report how many jobs...

Bastiat’s “The Law” Begins with God

March 8, 2012

Sometimes secularism sounds legitimate. One of the more thoughtful arguments used by proponents of a secular state, or of a state that mandates...

The High Cost of Dumbing Us Down

Sam Blumenfeld March 8, 2012

It now costs over $10,000 a year to “educate,” or brainwash, a child in a public school, whereas it costs about $550 to...

Out of Afghanistan Now!

Sheldon Richman March 8, 2012

Memo from the people of Afghanistan to the United States: Get out! Now! The mass demonstrations in Afghanistan, punctuated by anti-American violence,...

America’s Worst Anti-business Climates

Ralph R. Reiland March 6, 2012

Here’s a headline that’s sure not to boost investment and job creation in Pennsylvania: “Wyoming First, Pennsylvania Worst In Business Taxes.” ...

Senate Democrats Pitch Transportation Bill as a Job Creator

Brian Koenig March 6, 2012

In another purported attempt to spur "job creation," Senate Democrats will try to transform their $109-billion transportation bill into law this week. In...