Stimulus Scam Redux?
Item: President Barack Obama, reported the Bloomberg news agency for July 11, “said his $787 billion stimulus bill ‘has worked as intended’ as...
Opinion
Cash for Clunkers Is a Failure
In a development policymakers cite as a huge win for intervention in the marketplace, last week the federal government nearly suspended the Car...
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U.S. Incomes Fall 1.3 % in June
According to the latest figures from the U.S. Department of Commerce, Americans’ personal incomes dropped 1.3 percent in June, the biggest drop in...
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Bailed-out Bankers Bag Big Bonuses
Nine financial firms that received a total of $32.6 billion through the government's Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP) paid their top traders and...
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Savaging the Constitution to Save the Country
Violating the Constitution is like trusting a politician: there's just never a good reason to do so. Nonetheless, our rulers constantly flout the...
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Dollar Values Plunge Worldwide
Just call it irony. The same day the value of the dollar plunged to a current-year low as measured against six other major...
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Bernanke’s Public Relations Offensive
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke must know he’s in trouble. This week he completed a “town hall”-style meeting for PBS television to promote...
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My Experiences With National Healthcare
Obama’s castle-in-the-air, pie-in-the-sky, wish-upon-a-star health care would never, could never, and should never be appropriate for Americans. As Dr. Seuss might put it,...
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Right to Self-defense Should Know No Borders
On July 23, the U.S. Senate voted to defeat one of the most promising gun rights bills to come to the Senate floor...
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A Review of Bauerlein’s “The Dumbest Generation”
The Dumbest Generation is a book that is painful to read, but which Americans dare not ignore. The book’s title reflects the confrontational...
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Darwinism: Flawed, Disastrous — and Stolen
Within 20 words of the beginning of the prologue to his book, The End of Darwinism, former U.S. Information Agency Assistant Science Adviser...
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Privatization’s Pitfalls
As our nationalized economy continues imploding, government feels the financial pinch that used to hurt taxpayers alone. And so a passion for privatization...
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“Let It Come!”
During Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, he said the following: "Mr. President, it is natural to...
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When Socialists Are in Power, Expect Tyranny
There are three kinds of organizations that require coercion for their successful function: governments, utopians, and criminals. Because the Founding Fathers understood the...
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The Fourth Amendment’s Shocking Development
In a ruling issued in June, Niagara County (New York) Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza concluded that the Niagara Falls Police Department was justified...
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