Times That Try Men’s Souls
Leviathan’s lackeys grope passengers at airports while their bosses salivate to virtually strip-search travelers. Former bureaucrats suggest that we crack down on “homegrown...
Opinion
Stock Rally Owing to Plunge Protection Team Conspiracy?
The 60 percent gain in stocks since March was largely caused by secret government purchases of stock-index futures, the CEO of TrimTabs claims....
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Sen. John Rockefeller, D-W.Va., chairman of the Senate Finance Subcommittee on Health Care, and Rep. Joe Courtney D-Conn., a member of the House...
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Will New Jobs Bill Create Jobs? Republicans Say No
Where do the kinds of jobs that will grow the economy come from? Can the federal government simply create them through more spending?...
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Yes, Virginia, the System Didn’t Work and May Never Work
The fact that Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, the 23-year-old al-Qaida operative from Nigeria, was able to board an American airliner in Amsterdam with bomb-making...
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Government: The Only Institution that Grows Through Failure
If you want to bring down a plane, blowing off parts of your own body is not the preferred method. It’s failed both...
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The Ethanol Fiasco
Since his days as a U.S. Senator, Barack Obama has trumpeted renewable energy as the catalyst for the future growth of America’s economy....
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Crotch Bombers, Caulking & Now Healthcare?
So Umar Farouk Abdullmutallab got within an inch of having several hundred airline passengers fall from the sky over Detroit on Christmas Day,...
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Ponzi Schemes and Social Security
More than $16 billion of investors’ money evaporated in Ponzi schemes in 2009, according to the Associated Press. Although the names Bernie Madoff...
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The Fully Inept Tackle Healthcare
As I’m writing this, they’re in a panic in Congress, voting in the wee hours, bribing reluctant senators with millions in slush funds...
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Christianity and Salvation
There is a saying about well-intentioned but misguided friends that takes on a special meaning this time of year: "God save me from...
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Fed Backers Seek Power More Than Wealth
The prime architect of the Federal Reserve was German immigrant Paul Warburg. Arriving in America in 1902 with brother Max, he married into...
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A Parable of Obamacare
(With apologies to St. Luke) And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from the American Congress...
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The Economy: Cheerleaders vs. Reality
When MSNBC headlined the report that existing home sales surged by 7.4 percent in November (according to the National Association of Realtors), it...
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Avatar: A Visually Stunning and Perfect Historical Allegory
“You are not in Kansas anymore,” the main antagonist Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) growls out at the beginning of the movie Avatar,...
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