The FDA: Egg on its Face, Yet We’re the Butt of the Yolk
You might think that incompetence so massive it results in the recall of over half a billion eggs would also result in the...
Opinion
Who Cares About Our Future?
My column titled "What Handouts to Cut?" created a number of angry responses, and for the first time in my life, I had...
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Medical Care Facts and Fables
There is so much political spin, and so many numbers games being played, when it comes to medical care, that we have to...
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A Modest Proposal for Savings
I haven't come up with a name for my new political party yet, though I am working on a few possibilities: the Pizza...
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Obama “Recovery” Loses Another 500,000 Jobs
Following on the heals of the previous week’s stunning 484,000 new unemployment claims, the rise to 500,000 announced August 19 offers proof that...
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Five Days Until Beck’s Restoring Honor Rally
On Saturday, August 28, Fox News conservative pundit Glenn Beck is hosting a rally at the steps of the Lincoln Memorial in Washington,...
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Nanny McPhee Returns a Magical Adventure
Though she has been dubbed the anti-Mary Poppins, Nanny McPhee is essentially a repackaged version of Mary Poppins, minus the lovely beauty of...
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Is Our National Debt Nothing to Worry About?
A national debt is nothing to worry about, because “we owe it to ourselves” —so runs one of the more popular sophisms of...
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Cutting Taxes Is Again in Vogue
Cutting taxes is again in vogue in a Washington, D.C., increasingly dismayed by the utter inability of the massive Obama stimulus package...
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Dismantling America, Part 4
How did we get to the point where many people feel that the America they have known is being replaced by a very...
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How Relevant Is Ayn Rand Today?
It was news to many when Scott Powell announced that an obscure novel published in 1957, Atlas Shrugged, “may be second to the...
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Fiscal Challenges: A Way Out
Economist Niall Ferguson of Harvard wrote an article entitled “Complexity and Collapse” for the March/April issue of Foreign Affairs, a publication of the...
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Dismantling America, Part 3
One of the few campaign promises that Barack Obama has kept was this: "We are going to change the United States of America!"...
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Mortgage Summit: No New Ideas
When Kevin Hall, writing for McClatchy Newspapers, said “the Obama administration got what it was looking for at its summit on the future...
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Only $5.6 Million to Create One $47,000/Year Job!
They're from the government and they're here to help us ... for a price — a very big price. ...
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