The Filthiest Criminals
Among criminals, perhaps the vilest are politicians and pedophiles. So we can expect little outcry at the Supreme Court’s decision to expand the...
Opinion
Krakatoa and Eyjafjallajokull: Should Al Gore Be Worried?
The eruption of Iceland’s Eyjafjallajokull (I-jaf-jalla-jokull) volcano on April 14, 2010, is being compared to Krakatoa’s famous eruption on August 27, 1883 which...
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Arizona Si, Obama No!
Bloodshed! Violence! Riots! Threats! That’s been the reaction from the race-baiters at La Raza, and a number of other self-proclaimed do-gooders, who claim...
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Politically Correct Stupidity
The award this week for the craziest utterance goes to New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg. ...
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Robin Hood: Parallel to American Power Struggle With Govt
Though it’s only May, I have no qualms with the following prediction: Ridley Scott’s Robin Hood will be my favorite film of 2010....
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Illiterate Brits
Jay Leno, in his amusing Jay Walking adventures, interviews young Americans whose appalling ignorance of history, geography and other areas of basic knowledge...
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Review: Jack Rakove’s Revolutionaries
Jack Rakove knows how to stoke the fires of amateur historians. In the “Founders Lit” genre of popular non-fiction, Rakove is one of...
Read moreFree Markets: Pro-Rich or Pro-Poor
Listening to America's liberals, who now prefer to call themselves progressives, one would think that free markets benefit the rich and harm the...
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Politicians: Far More Dangerous than Terrorists
So the dictatorial Attorney General of a dictatorial administration has opined that keeping the homeland secure requires “modifying” the Miranda warning read to...
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Shock and Awe, Obama-Style
“Shock and awe” is how the Pentagon described the opening stages of the 2003 U.S. invasion of Iraq: overwhelming force designed to demoralize...
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Iron Man 2: Fifth-Biggest Opening Weekend
What do you get when you combine the angry son of a Russian defective, a very ripped Robert Downey, Jr., and an unending...
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Obama: Stuck on Begrudge
Off the teleprompter for a few seconds while stumping for financial reform recently in Illinois, President Obama had this to say about money,...
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The Anti-government Epithet
Though President Obama did not actually hurl the “anti-government” epithet in his May 1 Ann Arbor speech, his meaning was unmistakable and the...
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No Inconsequential Matter
Are socialistic policies ever legitimate in a constitutional republic? French Philosopher Frederic Bastiat provides a fit answer in his penetrating classic, “The Law:”...
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Auditing the Fed: the Great Sellout
Congressman Ron Paul (R-Texas) and Senator Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) had long worked together on their campaign for a full audit of the Federal...
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