Opinion

Consequences of Obama’s Bankrupt Philosophy

In her essay "For the New Intellectual," Ayn Rand warned that the United States would go bankrupt — financially and morally — if...

July 27, 2011

Why Private Industry Keeps Telling Us to “Go Green”

July 26, 2011

I've sounded the alarm over the dangers of Sustainable Development and the agenda for top-down control through what proponents call the "Three Es,"...

Researchers Concerned About Creation of Human/Animal Hybrid “Monsters”

Selwyn Duke July 26, 2011

When we hear about the implantation of human genes in animals, it may conjure up images right out of the story The Island of...

Debt-Ceiling Chicken

Thomas Sowell July 26, 2011

The big news, as far as the media are concerned, is the political game of debt-ceiling chicken that is being played by Democrats...

Obama: FDR “Fiscal Conservative”

Michael Tennant July 26, 2011

According to President Barack Obama, Franklin D. Roosevelt, long regarded as a free-spending President, was actually “fiscally conservative.” What’s more, said Obama, Roosevelt’s...

Forbes: U.S. Default a Given

Charles Scaliger July 26, 2011

According to no less a source than Forbes magazine, a U.S. default is no longer a question of if. It’s when. In a...

Presidential Candidate Ron Paul’s “Extremism”

Bob Adelmann July 26, 2011

Claiming that presidential candidate Ron Paul leads the “economic suicide wing” of the Republican Party, Brent Budowsky, writing for The Hill, says that...

Blueberry Economics

Ralph R. Reiland July 26, 2011

SEA ISLE, N.J. — I should be worrying about how the politicians are killing the nation financially, but that's on the back burner...

Obama Needs a Course in Economics 101

Sam Blumenfeld July 25, 2011

Judging from President Obama’s lack of knowledge of basic free-market economics, I suggest that he invite Professor Walter E. Williams and author Thomas...

The Real Impact of a U.S. Debt Downgrade

Bob Adelmann July 25, 2011

When Standard and Poor’s moved up their timeframe for a downgrade on U.S. sovereign debt from three to five years to just 90...

Walter Williams: Black Libertarian

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. July 23, 2011

Walter Williams is associated with that paradoxical phenomenon typically known as “black conservatism.” However, while Williams is a fierce opponent of the leftist...