Political Judges
Results of the recent elections showed that growing numbers of Americans are fed up with "public servants" who act as if they are...
Opinion
World Bank’s Trial Balloon Pops
Before the Internet, Robert Zoellick’s brief outline of suggested topics for the G20 meeting this week in Seoul, Korea, might have been considered...
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Prometheus for President (Or The Myth of an All-powerful President Lives On)
I am not inclined to rush to the library or bookstore to find and read the latest bestseller or new release, like Deciding...
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A Review of Gere’s “Knossos & the Prophets of Modernism”
Cathy Gere’s new book, Knossos and the Prophets of Modernism, is of profound significance because it offers the reader an opportunity to examine...
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Madison and Jefferson: A New Perspective on the Great Collaboration
On your last visit to Washington, D.C., did you stand marvelling at the size and craftsmanship of the Lincoln Memorial? Did you pause...
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John Allison: Free Market Banker
When asked during an “Online with Terry Jeffrey” interview about how to solve the debt crisis facing the country, former Branch Banking &...
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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...
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With the Ballot, Who Needs Term Limits?
Anyone who has frequented Tea Party gatherings has undoubtedly seen multiple signs sprinkled throughout the crowd calling on fellow citizens to “Throw the...
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Morning After Headache at the Times
Especially after bad days, liberals like to go to columnists like Maureen Dowd at the New York Times for some reassurance that everything’s...
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It’s Not Your Father’s Democratic Party
The first political question I can recall ever asking was the one I put to my father when I was seven years old....
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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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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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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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