Opinion

The Coming Third Trillion-dollar Bailout: The States

It was appropriate for Meredith Whitney to title her latest 600-page report for her investment clients The Tragedy of the Commons. That title...

Bob Adelmann September 29, 2010

Liberals Confuse Me

Walter E. Williams September 29, 2010

Christine O'Donnell, U.S. Senate candidate from Delaware, has faced considerable criticism and news media attention about her youthful association with witchcraft. Have we...

Learn or Else

Becky Akers September 29, 2010

Barack Obama, that noted educational authority who’s taught public school for decades, has again blessed us with his expertise by touting longer incarceration...

Politics Versus Gold

Thomas Sowell September 28, 2010

One of the many slick tricks of the Obama administration was to insert a provision in the massive Obamacare legislation regulating people who...

Bank Failures: 127 Down, 800 to Go

Bob Adelmann September 28, 2010

When Zacks Equity Research announced on Monday the failure of two more banks in the current recession, the silence was deafening. The report...

Legend of the Guardians: 3D Tour De Force

Eric Egan September 27, 2010

Legend of The Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole, directed by Zack Snyder, is an animated film based upon the first three books in...

Many Stimulus-created Jobs May Soon Vanish

Michael Tennant September 26, 2010

Remember all those jobs the stimulus law supposedly created? Well, “tens of thousands” of them, reports the New York Times, are going to...

It’s the Spending, Stupid

Wallis W. Wood September 26, 2010

Now there’s a message I hope you’ll see and hear a lot between now and election day — on bumper stickers on the backs of...

Review of Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps

Raven Clabough September 25, 2010

Watching Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps is analogous to viewing James Cameron’s 1997 hit, The Titanic. Both films generate the same sense of...

The Politics of Resentment

Dennis Behreandt September 24, 2010

Few things have captured in microcosm what has gone so painfully wrong, where racial issues are concerned, like the recent election for mayor...

Americans’ Tolerance for Communism

Selwyn Duke September 23, 2010

A while back I wrote a piece about the resurgence of the Red Menace in various parts of the world. The Communist Party...

Profit versus Nonprofit

Dennis Behreandt September 23, 2010

"Philadelphia Scandal Underscores Pitiful State of Public Housing Oversight," read Jonathan Berr's Aug. 28 report in the Daily Finance. It was a story...