Opinion
Invisible Victims
The National Transportation Safety Board has again recommended that airlines require a separate seat for all children, regardless of age, eliminating the current...
The Federal Reserve Makes Plan to Increase the Money Supply — Again
The notes of the latest meeting of the Federal Reserve, released on Tuesday, clearly show the Fed’s next step in trying to solve...
Read moreNational Law of the Harvest
There is a Christian church in America that contends, as did many of our Christian forefathers, that America “is a choice land; and...
Read moreA Review of “Spanish Texas, 1519-1821”
In an age of American culture wars against the particularities of the various regions of these United States, many citizens act as if...
Read moreFeingold Versus Johnson
One of a surprising number of old, well-established politicians being challenged in this year's election by some unknown newcomer is Senator Russ Feingold...
Read moreRecession Over? Pardon My Disbelief
On September 22, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (BCDC-NBER) announced that the recession (it began in...
Read moreWhat’s So Bad About Paladino’s ‘Homophobia’?
Sometimes it's amazing to observe what is and is not controversial these days. Except in a few rare instances where parents organize to...
Read moreA Primer in Protectionism
Despite opaque and dissembling arguments that what the world needs now is a world currency to replace the weakening dollar, there are significant...
Read moreTorments Ending in Tragedy
"Forty-four percent of boys say they've seen sexual images of girls in their school, and about 15 percent of them are disseminating those...
Read moreSecretariat Entertains Despite Flaws
Secretariat, directed by Randall Wallace, opens with Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery, quoting a Bible verse from Job. In the verse, God speaks of...
Read more“It’s Kind of a Funny Story” Is Kind of Funny — and Profound
It’s Kind of a Funny Story is by far one of the better films to be produced in recent years. But viewers beware...
Read moreThe Illusion of Rightward Movement
In this time of Tea Parties and tanking Democrat poll numbers, people are, depending on their point of view, hailing or howling about...
Read moreGreenspan’s Fear and Trembling
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, is worried about many things. In March he worried about the future of the economy....
Read moreA Trillion Reasons to Buy Gold Now
I can already hear some of you saying, “Now Chip really has lost his mind. Doesn’t he know gold is the most expensive it’s...
Read moreDyslexia: The Disease You Can Easily Get in School
For years I have been telling parents and educators that the kind of reading difficulties afflicting perfectly normal children in our schools today...
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