Jobs? What Jobs?
When CNBC announced that the number of workers filing new claims for unemployment benefits fell last week while private employers added new jobs...
Opinion
God, Like John Lennon, Is Against Borders?
Cardinal Roger Mahony had a simple and supportive message for the tens of thousands of demonstrators in Los Angeles who were protesting against...
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Wars Abroad No Defense Against Tyranny at Home
On the editorial page of my local newspaper this Memorial Day, there appears a two-panel cartoon. This first panel shows a small boy...
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Prince of Persia: Sacrifice, Loyalty, Familial Love
I want to be straight with you. I feel it necessary to preface this review by saying that Disney’s Prince of Persia: The...
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Souter’s Defense of Judicial Activism
Retired Supreme Court Justice David Souter defended the court against what he described as “charges of lawmaking and constitutional novelty.” Delivering the commencement...
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Ritalin and Russian Roulette
It is estimated that in the United States between 4 million and 8 million children are on Ritalin, the drug being used to...
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Anchor Babies and the Illegal 14th
There are many policies of our federal government that I think are absolutely absurd. But on a long list of craziness, this may...
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Time to Audit the Fed
The timing of the sellout by Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) could not have been more politically auspicious — or more suspicious. For months...
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Elena Kagan and the First Amendment
The Obama administration and the Democrats are openly hostile to the First Amendment. On that issue, here is the scoreboard so far:...
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Shutter Island: A Pro-life Morality Tale
Shutter Island comes out on DVD and Blue-ray on June 8. This analysis of Shutter Island, directed by Martin Scorscese and starring Leonardo...
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Yet More Reasons (As If We Needed Any) to Abolish the TSA
What would enrage you enough to “kick a wall, throw a suitcase or make a pithy comment to a screener” at an...
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Term Limits and the Citizen Legislature Scam
In April of 1996, the traditionally liberal Democratic Party did something it is, in theory, never supposed to do. It out-conservatived the Republican...
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Obama Misrepresents Ariz. Immigration Law
Answering a student’s question at a recent town-hall meeting at Indian Hills Community College in Iowa, here’s how President Obama characterized the Arizona...
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Paving the Way for Future Bailouts
Item: The April 22 Washington Post reported that President Obama was making an “assertive stride into the debate on financial regulatory reform.” The...
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Shrek Forever After Teaches a Valuable Lesson
Shrek Forever After is a film that concurrently entertains and teaches a valuable lesson: You don’t know what you have until it’s gone....
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