Occupy Wall Street, Democracy & Mob Rule
In various cities across the country, mobs of mostly young, mostly incoherent, often noisy and sometimes violent demonstrators are making themselves a major...
Opinion
Democracy Is Impossible
After Moammar Gadhafi's downfall as Libya's tyrannical ruler, politicians and "experts" in the U.S. and elsewhere, including French Foreign Minister Alain Juppe, are...
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On Halloween, Nat’l Debt Exceeds Gross Domestic Product
A little-noticed event occurred at approximately midnight on Monday, October 31, 2011: The national debt of the United States exceeded, for the first...
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A Tennessee Trucker and the TSA
You might assume that unconstitutionally searching Tennessee’s trucks while recruiting their drivers to snitch on us would keep the Transportation Security Administration (TSA)...
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Payday Loans
California is a great place for studying the thinking — or lack of thinking — on the political left. ...
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New Book Asks: Sovereignty or Submission?
In his new book, Sovereignty or Submission, John Fonte identifies globalism as the latest evolutionary iteration of the “multiculturalism-diversity” that once infatuated the...
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The Myth of Fascism
Napoleon Bonaparte once said, “History is a series of agreed-upon myths.” I’m not quite that cynical, but our history books do sometimes seem...
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Obama & Soros: Puppet & Puppeteer
We are slowly being made aware of the intimate relationship that has existed between Barack Obama and financier George Soros since 2004 through...
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The Public’s Distrust of Government
The good news is that Americans' distrust of government is at its highest level ever. It's good news because it shows the public...
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Liberty From an Intergalactic Perspective
Some readers of this column may very well remember the late ‘70s-early '80s sitcom, Mork and Mindy. Mork, played by Robin Williams, was an...
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Will the Internet and Kindle Ever Replace Books?
The Internet is very much like television in that it takes time away from other pursuits and provides entertainment and information, but in...
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“Occupy Pittsburgh” Encounters
Rapper Kanye West and hip-hop kingpin Russell Simmons added some celebrity glitz to the Occupy Wall Street protest in New York when they...
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Who’s REALLY Taxed More Heavily — Buffett or His Secretary?
I don’t know which I’m more tired of hearing: Barack Obama gloating that one of the richest men in America supports his tax-the-rich...
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U.S. Foreign Policy: Seeing and Believing
Millions no doubt have read or heard the Hans Christian Andersen tale of how some alleged weavers of long ago convinced their emperor...
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Defining Liberty
The nature of the relationship between “universals” — Humanity, Justice, Goodness, etc. — and “particulars” — this human being, this instance of justice,...
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