The Right’s Posturing and the Left’s Illogic
Broken down into its most simple explanation, cognitive dissonance is when one spouts diametrically opposite ideals with equal conviction — something akin to...
Congress Considers Extending Unemployment Benefits — Again
One ironclad rule of government programs is “if you subsidize something, you will get more of it.” Thus, paying poor, unmarried women to...
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Independence and Its “Improvements”
Most of us will undoubtedly find reasonably pleasant ways to spend the extra hours away from work that a holiday weekend gives us;...
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Black Landowners Fight to Reclaim Land Taken by Feds
A group of black former residents of an area of McIntosh County, Georgia, known as Harris Neck has banded together in an attempt...
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Kagan Promises She’ll Reread Federalist Papers
President Barack Obama nominated Solicitor General Elena Kagan on May 10 to occupy the chair that would be soon left vacant by Supreme...
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High Court Rules Against Christian Group at California Law School
The U.S Supreme Court ruled five to four on June 28 that a University of California law school can refuse to recognize a...
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Kagan, Confirmation, and the Constitution
Elena Kagan's responses to the questions put to her by the Senate are worthy of comment since she has been nominated for a...
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ObamaCare Gives Small Business the Business
Economist Robert Higgs wrote a paper in 1997 arguing that “regime uncertainty” — “a pervasive uncertainty among investors about the security of their...
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Graham, Kagan and the Global “Battlefield”
As a preface to a series of questions about the due process afforded the would-be "Christmas Day bomber" last December 25, Sen. Lindsey...
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Kagan Remains Vague in Day Three of Hearings
Day three of Elena Kagan’s hearings to be the next Supreme Court justice was expected to be relatively amicable as the remaining members...
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Memorializing Stalin — in Virginia
Born in 1878 to a drunken father and strict religious mother, Joseph Vissarionovich Stalin (born Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili) went on to succeed...
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Headed for Recovery … or the “Cliff-edge Around the Corner”?
After a meeting with his economic team and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke on June 29, President Obama announced "the economy is strengthening"...
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CBO Labels Current U.S. Debt Path “Unsustainable”
The non-partisan U.S. Congressional Budget Office declared that the U.S. government is on an “unsustainable” path of accumulating debt in a new analysis...
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Banks, Analysts Warn of Massive Money Printing Ahead
As credit and economic activity continue to contract, analysts are warning of big problems and unprecedented fiat-money creation by the Federal Reserve System...
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Ding Dong, The Pork King’s Dead
Tragically, Robert Byrd has died. Don't get me wrong: it's a stellar day whenever one of Leviathan's lackeys departs for the nether regions...
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