A Call to Secure Mexican Border’s Southward Traffic
During a March 17 combined hearing of the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Drugs and the Senate Caucus on International Narcotics Control,...
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From Riches to Rags: Inflation & Poverty in Zimbabwe
Economists have long used 1920s Germany as the classic example of what can happen to a nation when monetary inflation gets out of...
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Revolutionary Virtue
"Our Constitution was made only for a moral and religious people," John Adams famously announced in 1798. "It is wholly inadequate to the...
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China Wants Importers to Pay Its Carbon Tax
During a mid-March forum organized by the Pew Center on Global Climate Change in Washington, China's top climate-change negotiator, Li Gao, said his...
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Musings on St. Patrick’s Day
When did we Irish begin migrating to America? Well, when were the Irish not here might be a better question. Whether truth or...
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Globalization Driven by New, Apocalyptic Horsemen
Over the past several months, a steady drumbeat in elite media circles has been pounding out a persistent theme: global crises have exposed...
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Roland Burris Goes From the Frying Pan into the Fire
Just when it looked like things couldn't get any worse for Illinois Sen. Roland Burris, it got worse. The state's governor and its...
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Fed Bailouts More Outrageous Than AIG Bonuses
All of the feigned outrage in Washington over the millions that AIG has been doling out in bonus payments, and the tens of...
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Trying to Turn CO2 Into Au
ITEM: U.S. News & World Report for February 20, 2009 interviewed Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the new chairman of the House Energy and...
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El Salvador to Lurch Leftward Under Funes
Tiny, tragic El Salvador became on Sunday the latest Latin American country to lurch leftwards, following the lead of the likes of Venezuela,...
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Taliban Militants Hit NATO Supply Convoy
As many as 50 suspected Taliban militants destroyed 15 trucks at the al-Faisal terminal in Peshawar, Pakistan, early on the morning of March...
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The Flap Over Rush Limbaugh
More than a decade ago, when Rush Limbaugh was ascending to his version of heaven (the one where dollars flow his way), he...
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Will the Stewart/Cramer Battle Be the Death of CNBC?
Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart has struck again, this time perhaps landing a mortal blow on the ratings-troubled NBC financial cable network, CNBC. The...
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Earmarks and the Federal Budget
When President Barack Obama discussed earmark reform last week, he favorably cited the recently enacted American Recovery and Reinvestment Act as an example...
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Obama & Sanford Spar Over Stimulus Funds
Governor Mark Sanford (R) of South Carolina has repeatedly made national headlines by being one of the fiercest critics of President Barack Obama's...
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Obama Budget: A New Era of Irresponsibility
President Barack Obama has just recently released his $3.55 trillion fiscal 2010 budget, and already there's full employment among all the people who...
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G20 Consensus Hostile to Free Market
If the talk at the G20 gathering in England is any indication, the hard-beset global economy is stuck between the devil and the...
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Japan & China: Following Obama’s Lead on Spending?
Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao’s remark that he was “worried” about the $1 trillion in U.S. debt he was holding caused such a chill...
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Tenth Amendment Movement: Taking On the Feds
We Americans are expected to play by the rules — to obey traffic regulations, pay taxes, observe zoning ordinances — in short, to...
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Gov. Mark Sanford on Stimulus, Economy
Governor Mark Sanford (R) of South Carolina has been a vocal critic of President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan, and in the process has...
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