Conservative Writer Claims Sesame Street Has Liberal Agenda
If congressional lawmakers need further evidence for why the federal government should cut public funding to the Public Broadcasting Station, they need not...
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Is the Third Time a Charm for Quantitative Easing?
Analysts are warning that the Federal Reserve is gearing up for a third round of quantitative easing, which involves printing money and flooding...
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Memorializing Leviathan
Candy flies through the air. Flags flutter from lamp-posts, bunting festoons every porch. Veterans of America's various imperial wars wave from their cars....
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Filibuster Kills Fed Judgeship Nomination of UC Law Prof. Liu
During the filibuster that effectively killed the controversial nomination of University of California law professor Goodwin Liu to a federal judgeship, U.S. Senator...
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Do We Deserve Our Fate?
The latest Social Security Trustees Report tells us that the program will be insolvent by the year 2037. The combined unfunded liability of...
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Report: Obama Boosts Number of Limos for Liberal Appointees
One reason the U.S. Government debt has rocketed into the fiscal stratosphere, the Center for Public Integrity reports, is that the Obama administration...
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N.C. Church Fined $4,000 for Excessive Tree Pruning
A local church in Charlotte, North Carolina, learned the hard way that arborilogical endeavors can be expensive after receiving an excessive fine for...
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House To Have Symbolic Vote on Debt Ceiling Today
While the U.S. Senate continues to enjoy a full week of vacation, the U.S. House of Representatives has resumed regular business and plans...
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Democrats: Justice Thomas Should Recuse Himself from Healthcare Case
Fearful of the potential 5-4 outcome many are suspecting will come of the Supreme Court’s ruling on President Obama’s signature healthcare law, Democratic...
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N.J. to Leave Regional Cap-and-trade Scheme
Gov. Chris Christie announced late last week that New Jersey would be leaving the controversial Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative (RGGI), a “cap-and-trade” scheme...
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Pope’s Remarks Recall the Nazi War on Christ
Pope Benedict XVI, who like other teenagers in Nazi Germany, was forced to join the Hitler Youth, recently recalled solemnly the evils of...
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Tips for the Republican Voter
As the presidential campaign for 2012 gets under way, conservatives, libertarians, and others typically disposed to vote for Republican candidates would do themselves...
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Seductive Beliefs
One of the painfully revealing episodes in Barack Obama's book Dreams From My Father describes his early experience listening to a sermon by...
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Fair Tax? Flat Tax? The Case for No Tax
Stephen Moore’s math in his Wall Street Journal article is compelling: by the time the Democrats' proposed three-percent surtax on incomes over $1 million...
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Will the Crises in Spain Combine to Make the “Perfect Storm”?
The financial crisis threatening to bring down the economies of Portugal, Ireland, Greece, and Spain (the so-called “PIGS” countries) has long-term consequences which...
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Symbolic Debt Ceiling Bill Voted Down
As expected, the bill to raise the federal debt ceiling that House Republicans brought to a quick vote today failed overwhelmingly. The bill,...
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Murder, Tulips, and Taxes
Last week, we took the midnight train to Chicago. It's an easy ride, with a bedroom both ways — except I get the...
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Congress Lets Obama Ignore War Powers Act in Libya
By all means let us continue to remember and honor our war dead, as many (though too few) did yesterday in observance of...
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G8 Promises Billions in Aid to the Arab Spring
At last week’s meeting held in Deauville, France, the assembled leaders of the so-called G8 (the “wealthiest industrialized nations”) agreed to send at...
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Nullify Now! Tour Finds Support in Los Angeles
Saturday, May 28, marked yet another successful Nullify Now! tour, this time in Los Angeles, California. Sponsored by the Tenth Amendment Center, the...
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