Opinion
Democrats Bite Democrats, Part II
Rumors of Congressional Democrats privately expressing disapproval of the Obama administration's actions and policies have been given more credence by such things as...
“Adam and Steve” in Judge Walker’s America
A question on many Americans' minds now is whether and when the Supreme Court of the United States will overturn a federal court's...
Read moreRecession or Recovery: Symptoms and Salves
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner’s assurance that the Great Recession is over will undoubtedly convince many Americans that relief is on the way and...
Read moreDemocrats Bite Democrats
You expect Republican politicians to criticize Democratic administrations and vice versa. But when Democrats start criticizing Democratic administrations, that is news. Someone once...
Read moreDrum Out the VA
On May 7, 1818, a veteran of the Revolutionary War named Asher Wright "personally appear[ed]" before Presiding Judge Sylvester Gilbert in the "District...
Read more“Stimulated” Out of Jobs
Item: Speaking in Canada where he was attending the Group of 20 summit, “President Barack Obama said on Sunday he would follow through...
Read moreIs Profiling Racist?
We live in a world of imperfect and costly information, and people seek to economize on information costs in a variety of ways....
Read moreGeithner: Welcome to Reality
Claims that “we are on a path back to growth” by Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner in an op-ed in the New York Times...
Read more“Slippin’ and a-slidin’” in Our Litigious Society
I don’t write a self-help column, or about household hints, but here’s a warning about how I flew out the bathtub a few...
Read moreRailroading Chesser?
Warriors on Terror must be thanking their lucky stars for "Top Secret America and its 854,000 workers": given bureaucrats' legendary incompetence and sloth,...
Read moreCharlie St. Cloud: A Film Celebrating Life
Everything about Burr Steven’s Charlie St. Cloud is predictable, except for the spiritual gravity and Christian undertones, rendering an otherwise teen “chick flick”...
Read more19th Century Communists and the Origin of American Public Education
Most Americans are under the impression that Communism was invented by Karl Marx and Lenin and first practiced in the Soviet Union. The...
Read moreA Police State You’d Better Believe In
When our nation is waging "war on" so many things (drugs, crime, poverty, terrorism), it's hard to know where to enlist and when...
Read moreGeneration Zero
While I certainly look back with fondness on the “Greatest Generation,” I can’t help but think that the superlative applied to it may...
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