Behind the Numbers: October Employment Report
Even though 151,000 new real jobs were added in October, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the unemployment rate stayed at 9.6...
Opinion
Due Date Doesn’t Deliver
Due Date begins innocently enough with Robert Downey, Jr.'s character, Pete Highman, leaving his pregnant wife a message on her voice mail...
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Megamind Asks: What if the Bad Guy Actually Won?
Megamind is a fun tale of a struggle between good and evil, unique in that the most important clash is between Megamind and...
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This Was No Mere Election, It Was a Restraining Order
In Tuesday's elections, the Republicans gained more than 60 seats, and now have a comfortable majority, in the U.S. House of Representatives, the...
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Restoring the American Dream
The incessant and never-ending drumbeat of bad news about the economy was deftly summarized here, which concluded that 16 new records had been...
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Fed Celebrates Its 100th Birthday
In a remarkable show of both contempt and hubris, the Federal Reserve System announced that it will be celebrating its 100th birthday at...
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Stinking in America: Is Not Washing the New PC Trend?
People like me are often accused of wanting to return to the 19th century. But, if the New York Times is right about...
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Terror Stalks U.S!
"Terror Stalks U.S!" So screamed the printed edition of New York's Daily News last weekend — and it wasn't a forecast of Tuesday's...
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Palin Big Winner in 2010 Campaigns
A lot of people talk about recycling; some people live it. Jerry Brown, who became governor of the nation's largest state in his...
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Virginia’s Black Confederates
One tragedy of war is that its victors write its history and often do so with bias and dishonesty. That's true about our...
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Federal Mass Transit a Big Flop
Central planning seldom makes economic sense. However good a scheme looks on paper in some politician’s office, planned on the taxpayer’s dime, it's...
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Passage Was Only the Beginning: Books on Ratification
Despite the steadiness of the stream, the fertile field of “Founders Literature” never seems to reach a saturation point. Recently, a flood of...
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FDR, Barack Obama, and Failed Policies
Guess who said the following: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does...
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“Bad Deal” Broder Wants More “Preparations for War”
Old war hawks never die, they just beat new war drums. Columnist David Broder, New Dealer emeritus at the Washington Post, believes he...
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A Crossroads Election
Most elections are about particular policies, particular scandals or particular personalities. But these issues don't mean as much this year — not because...
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