Opinion

Gnomeo & Juliet Pays Homage to Shakespeare

The new children's movie Gnomeo & Juliet is of course an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic work, Romeo & Juliet. In this new...

Raven Clabough February 15, 2011

Obama’s Two-bit Nod to Capitalism

Ralph R. Reiland February 15, 2011

Attempting to patch things up a bit with the business sector, President Obama began his February 7th speech at the U.S. Chamber of...

Rocky and Republicans

Thomas Sowell February 15, 2011

Rocky Marciano was the only heavyweight champion who never lost a single fight in his whole career — and, at the time, he...

Newt’s Contract with the Earth: Pseudo-Science, Big Government

Daniel Sayani February 15, 2011

Most Americans remember Newt Gingrich as being the former Speaker of the House who led America into the glories of conservative victory, and...

Deficit Expected to Surpass Size of U.S. Economy

Raven Clabough February 15, 2011

Not only does President Barack Obama’s budget, released Monday, fail to make any real progress in spending cuts, but it reveals a frightening...

America the Busybody, at Home and Abroad

Jack Kenny February 15, 2011

These are times that try nations' budgets. Even President Obama is talking seriously about budget cutting — not as seriously as the Republicans...

A Short History of Government Education

Sam Blumenfeld February 14, 2011

Most Americans assume that we've always had public schools, that they came with the Constitution and are an indispensable part of our democratic...

Economic Stimulus and Economic Stress

Brian Koenig February 14, 2011

The U.S. economy's agony endures, as “economic stress” in December escalated, with foreclosure rates a major topic of concern. According to the monthly...

Why GOProud Didn’t Belong at CPAC

Selwyn Duke February 11, 2011

Many say that objection to homosexual group GOProud’s participation in the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) convention is much ado about nothing. And...

Abraham Lincoln, Political Tyrant

Wallis W. Wood February 11, 2011

We’ve spent a lot of time recently bashing “the worst President who ever lived.” (That’s the description of the current occupant of the...

Why Johnny STILL Can’t Read

Sam Blumenfeld February 11, 2011

Fifty-six years ago, in 1955 to be exact, the most significant book about American education was published and, with very good reason, caused...

On the Delights of Reading Old Magazines

Sam Blumenfeld February 10, 2011

I recently had the pleasure of perusing a number of old magazines from the mid-nineteenth century to about 1918. They included such great...

The Honesty of Communists and Other Totalitarians

Thomas R. Eddlem February 10, 2011

You Can Still Trust the Communists to Be Communists (Socialists and Progressives Too), by Fred C. Schwarz & David A. Noebel, Christian Anti-Communism...

The “Judicial Activism” Ploy

Thomas Sowell February 9, 2011

Now that two different federal courts have declared ObamaCare unconstitutional, the administration's answer is to call the courts guilty of "judicial activism." ...