Opinion
U.S. Collectivism’s Record of Failure. And Now healthcare?
The hype is always better than the real thing. Boston’s Big Dig sounded like a half-decent project in the beginning. Approved in 1982...
Read moreGlobal Warming Update
Private industry and governments around the world have spent trillions of dollars in the name of saving our planet from manmade global warming....
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The Economy Looks Like “L”
Just when the headline news about the economy was beginning to look good and the talking heads were beginning to sound good, along...
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My Son John Finally Seen by America Again
Turner Movie Classics on February 27th showed its viewers My Son John, a 1952 film that Robert Osborne advised his audience had been...
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How to Stop Inflation
The good news on the economy this month, according to news reports, is the modest level of inflation. On this matter, CNN reported...
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Is Humanism a Religion?
The question we ask is important. For humanism is the world view of our educational leaders, of the textbooks they write, of the...
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Obama’s Jobless Recovery
The New York Times is now reporting what many Americans have figured out already: The Obama “recovery”) is a jobless recovery, leaving millions...
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Shutter Island Movie Review
Paramount’s decision to delay the release of Martin Scorsese’s Shutter Island only increased the anticipation for the film’s February 12th debut. Evidently, it...
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Krugman Cracks Up Over Obama’s “Lemon Socialism”
Paul Krugman, a top columnist and liberal opinion-maker at the New York Times, sounded last week like he was tied to the tracks...
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Biden’s Ashes Cause Quite a Stir
It's an annual ritual for millions of Catholics around the world, but when Vice President Joe Biden appeared in public with ashes on...
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The Census and the Constitution
The Census Bureau estimates that the life cycle cost of the 2010 Census will be from $13.7 billion to $14.5 billion, making it...
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Recovery Act a Bust, Despite Obama Claims
"The art of economics," economist Henry Hazlitt wrote nearly seven decades ago, "consists in looking not merely at the immediate but at the...
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Consumer Prices Fall … or Rise?
“Core consumer prices” fell by a monthly 0.1 percent in January, reported the Wall Street Journal on February 19, noting that the last...
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Lessons on Leviathan: Tarps and Tents
People weren’t the only casualties of Haiti’s horrific earthquake last month. Also devastated was the constellation of virtues and blessings we call “the...
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