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Baseball Hero, Ted Williams
Ted Williams had just returned from a hunting trip in Minnesota, about 40 miles north of Minneapolis, when he heard the news that...
Ted Kennedy: Protector of American Healthcare?
Ah, the ironies of politics. The late Sen. Edward Kennedy, an early and steadfast proponent of national health insurance, turns out to have...
Read moreBasel III and Sound Banking
The global regulation of banks took a major leap forward with the conclusion on September 12 of a round of talks held at...
Read moreCan the Free Market Support Alternative Energy?
Legislative efforts to implement a supposedly “environmentally friendly” conversion of the U.S. economy by means of carbon credits may be on hold for...
Read moreGenetic Engineering Goes Upstream
Dubbed "Frankenfish" by Alaska Senator Mark Begich, AquaBounty Technologies' salmon are poised to become the first genetically-engineered (GE) animals to enter the U.S....
Read moreIris Scan Coming to Airports, Focusing Terror Hunt on Innocent
“The Homeland Security Department plans to test futuristic iris scan technology that stores digital images of people's eyes in a database and is...
Read moreCoal 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 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 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 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 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 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 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...
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