Opinion

Bailing Out Scam Artists (aka Fannie and Freddie)

ITEM: The New York Times for September 9 editorialized: "As an act of crisis management, the government takeover of Fannie Mae and Freddie...

Steven J. DuBord September 29, 2008

PBS Distorts History in “The Judge and the General”

Gary Benoit September 26, 2008

As fate and fortune would have it, I arrived in Miami from Chile in time for one of the periodic fundraising drives for...

Doting Over America’s Decline

Steven J. DuBord September 19, 2008

Respected newsman and consummate insider, Fareed Zakaria paints a rosy picture of unabated globalism and global governance and tells why America's crises are...

Issues McCain & Obama Like to Ignore

September 18, 2008

Anyone who tuned into one of the GOP candidate debates earlier this year would have experienced seeing the establishment candidates (McCain, Romney, Giuliani,...

Presidential Politicking in New Hampshire

Jack Kenny September 17, 2008

Politics "stops at the water's edge," we are often told, but fortunately it does not hesitate at state borders. ...

Birch Society Rallies for Republic

Gary Benoit September 17, 2008

The John Birch Society had a significant presence at Congressman Ron Paul's "Rally for the Republic." ...

Reviving the Constitution

Steven J. DuBord September 4, 2008

Thomas E. Woods and Kevin R.C. Gutzman's important book Who Killed the Constitution? chronicles the Supreme Court's attacks on the Constitution. ...

Statist Solutions

Steven J. DuBord September 3, 2008

The August 21 premiere of I.O.U.S.A. in select theaters across the country included not only the film itself but a live broadcast of...

I.O.U.S.A. How Much?!

Steven J. DuBord September 3, 2008

The new documentary film I.O.U.S.A. sounds the alarm about our worsening debt crisis but is short on solutions. ...

The Founders on Firearms

September 1, 2008

The Founders’ Second Amendment: Origins of the Right to Bear Arms, by Stephen P. Halbrook, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008, 425 pages, hardcover....

The Tragedy of the Commons

Dennis Behreandt August 29, 2008

Perhaps Karl Marx best described life on the commons: “From each according to his ability, to each according to his need.” That’s a...

Deficit Grows Ever Larger

August 28, 2008

On July 28, White House Budget Director Jim Nussle announced that the expected deficit for Fiscal Year 2009 (it begins October 1, 2008)...

Gorbachev to Receive Liberty Medal

Dennis Behreandt August 18, 2008

“I think history will be very kind to Gorbachev.” That’s the opinion of 84-year-old ex-president George H.W. Bush concerning former Soviet dictator Mikhail...