Atheist Smokes Pages from Bible and Koran
In the aftermath of the furor over one Florida church’s plans to burn copies of the Koran on the ninth anniversary of the...
Coal Miners Upset With EPA
As America struggles with expensive energy provided by foreign nations without our best interests at heart, West Virginians must wonder why. America is...
Read moreEdwin Newman, Defender of Good English, Dead at 91
When Edwin Newman published his phenomenal bestseller Strictly Speaking, a blurb on the back cover quoted a reviewer who described the erudite author...
Read moreIraq Runs Surplus, but Obama Wants to Send More Money
Suppose you’re the President of the United States at a time when your country is facing a $1.3 trillion annual budget deficit and...
Read moreThe FDA: Neither Safe nor Effective
Once upon a time, so the story goes, the American pharmaceutical industry was a “wild West” in which greedy, unscrupulous snake-oil salesmen preyed...
Read moreReids Lame Duck Session: Just Mopping Up?
Last Tuesday, September 7, when Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) said he intended to focus the current lame duck session on "mopping...
Read moreSeptember 17, 1787
Not surprisingly, it was the Nestor of the Founding Generation who made the most lasting and dramatic impact on the final day of...
Read moreThe Emerging Global Fed
The Federal Reserve has been a nightmare for the American people. It inflates the money supply, thereby devaluing already-existing money and placing a...
Read moreJefferson, State Sovereignty, and the Constitution
Of George Wythe, his former tutor and mentor, Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “No man ever left behind him a character more venerated than...
Read moreBetraying Friends to Friends
Seems the late Ernest C. Withers, a.k.a. “the Original Civil Rights Photographer” whose iconographic pictures recorded the turbulent 1960’s, was also a snitch...
Read more“Mudstream” Republicans Stab O’Donnell in Back
Some years ago, Donald Fehr, then the executive director of the Major League Baseball Players Association, observed that baseball was the only industry...
Read moreFBI Says Violent Crime Fell in 2009, But …
The FBI has reported that for the third straight year incidents of violent crime have declined across the United States. According to the...
Read moreThe Money of Fools, Part 2
Words are supposed to convey thoughts, but they can also obliterate thoughts and shut down thinking. As Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes said, a...
Read moreFrance In Trouble Over Immigrants
France got into big trouble this week over its deportation of Gypsies early this week, and its move to ban veils that hide...
Read moreFirst Lady Sets Her Sights on Restaurant Menus
First Lady Michelle Obama has been touted as a “champion” in her efforts against childhood obesity. However, her labors have been criticized for...
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