A Housing Bill of Horrors
In response to the housing crisis, the American Housing Rescue and Foreclosure Prevention Act of 2008 (H.R. 3221) passed in the House (272-152)...
Running for President of the World?
On July 24, presidential candidate Barack Obama arrived in Berlin in a stop sandwiched between visits to Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait, Jordan, Israel, and...
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Laying Down Blame for Our Economic Troubles
After President George W. Bush asked guests at a Republican fundraiser to turn off their cameras — which at least one person failed...
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Nazi Counterfeiters
Imagine a situation in which billions of expertly counterfeited dollars have suddenly flooded our streets and rooftops — literally dropped from airplanes. Some...
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Presidential Front-runners
In the three cover-story articles that are linked to on this page, we profile the top three heavyweights for president. On the Democratic...
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Feds to Imprison Idaho Man for Protecting Homes From Flooding
Lynn Moses is scheduled to be locked up in federal prison on August 6. His crime? Protecting the city of Driggs from flooding....
Read moreChile’s Social Security Success
Think of the United States as a latter-day Titanic. Super-modern. Super-rich. And heading for an iceberg of colossal proportions. Unthinkable? So, too, was...
Read moreMedia Bias in Global-warming Coverage
The media’s adoption of the position that global warming is man-made means they no longer can be trusted to report objectively on the...
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A Necessary History Lesson
Churchill, Hitler, and the Unnecessary War: How Britain Lost Its Empire and the West Lost the World, by Patrick J. Buchanan: New York:...
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Kasparov Analyzes the Games of Mugabe, Putin, and Medvedev
Western political leaders and media pundits expressed outrage at the friendly reception accorded Zimbabwe’s defiant dictator, Robert Mugabe, by fellow African leaders at...
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Restraining Orders Out of Control
In America today, restraining orders are not only overused, but abused in such a way as to threaten the concept of justice. ...
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Congressional Races
While much of the nation’s political attention this summer and fall will be focused on the presidential election, voters will once again determine...
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Bias in Media Coverage
In June 2000 global-warming prophesier Ross Gelbspan lamented, “Over the last seven years, the fossil-fuel lobby has mounted an extremely effective campaign of...
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IndyMac Bank’s Ominous Failure
As of Tuesday, July 15, crowds outside branches of the failed California bank IndyMac were getting ugly. On the second business day after...
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Guantanamo Interrogations Based on Communist Chinese Methods
A Senate Armed Services Committee hearing held on June 17 made public several documents from the U.S. naval base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba,...
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