Bernanke: Fed Could ‘Step Into New Areas’
Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke told Congress this week that despite not having any imminent plans to further “support” the economy, the central...
Temporary Unemployment Benefits — Permanent Welfare?
The White House on July 21 extolled the extension of unemployment insurance by the Senate, claiming it was “not only the decent thing...
Read moreLet’s Throw This Rascal Out
If there were any liberal Democrats in the crowd that filled Bally’s Convention Center in Las Vegas two weeks ago, they kept a...
Read moreWill God Endorse Newt Gingrich?
Perhaps you missed this one. God apparently has been moved ahead of the Iowa caucuses in the process of choosing the next American...
Read moreFor BP and Transocean, Signs of Deadly Errors Preceded Explosion
According to British Petroleum, safety is always top priority. That's what BP Spokesman Robert Wine told CNN for a report on the Deepwater...
Read moreKorea Condemns U.S. Naval Exercises With South
AFP news reported on July 22 that a spokesman for the North Korean delegation at the ASEAN security talks in Hanoi has condemned...
Read moreMassachusetts Moves to Circumvent the Electoral College
The Commonwealth of Massachusetts is on the verge of passing a new law that will circumvent the Electoral College system so that future...
Read moreCFR President Richard Haass: Do Less in Afghanistan
Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass has penned a cover story for Newsweek magazine calling for a smaller U.S. presence in Afghanistan,...
Read more‘Major’ Ralph Houk Was Smart When It Counted
When World War II veteran Ralph Houk, "the major," was a Yankees coach under manager Casey Stengel, Stengel one day gave him a...
Read morePelosi Under Fire for Award From Tax-funded Abortion Group
For her crucial role in passing the wildly unpopular health-care “reform” bill and her dedication to ensuring that more federal funds will go...
Read morePsychiatry’s Brave New World
After some 40 years of psychiatry-based "parenting," free societies are experiencing behaviors by out-of-control children virtually unknown in the 1950s — first-graders biting and...
Read moreLibertarian Immigration?
John Stossel believes in free markets. The best result, in almost any situation, is individual liberty — government should stay out of the...
Read moreWill Cap-and-trade Bill Make Meeting Energy Efficiency Standards a Requirement for House Sale?
A chain letter that I’ve received four times already about provisions of the cap-and-trade bill that passed the House and is awaiting Senate...
Read moreObama Changes “Freedom of Religion” to “Freedom of Worship”
Well into the 20th century, coal miners in the United Kingdom and the United States carried canaries into coal mines as an early-warning...
Read moreTARP Criticism Misses the Point
When TARP Inspector General Neil Barofsky criticized the Home Affordable Modification Program (HAMP) as being ineffective, he blamed the Treasury Department for not...
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