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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...

Jack Kenny September 17, 2010

Ted Kennedy: Protector of American Healthcare?

Michael Tennant September 17, 2010

Ah, the ironies of politics. The late Sen. Edward Kennedy, an early and steadfast proponent of national health insurance, turns out to have...

Basel III and Sound Banking

William F. Jasper September 17, 2010

The global regulation of banks took a major leap forward with the conclusion on September 12 of a round of talks held at...

Can the Free Market Support Alternative Energy?

James Heiser September 16, 2010

Legislative efforts to implement a supposedly “environmentally friendly” conversion of the U.S. economy by means of carbon credits may be on hold for...

Genetic Engineering Goes Upstream

Kelly Holt September 16, 2010

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....

Iris Scan Coming to Airports, Focusing Terror Hunt on Innocent

Thomas R. Eddlem September 16, 2010

“The Homeland Security Department plans to test futuristic iris scan technology that stores digital images of people's eyes in a database and is...

Coal Miners Upset With EPA

Bruce Walker September 16, 2010

As America struggles with expensive energy provided by foreign nations without our best interests at heart, West Virginians must wonder why. America is...

Edwin Newman, Defender of Good English, Dead at 91

Jack Kenny September 16, 2010

When Edwin Newman published his phenomenal bestseller Strictly Speaking, a blurb on the back cover quoted a reviewer who described the erudite author...

Jefferson, State Sovereignty, and the Constitution

Joe Wolverton, II, J.D. September 16, 2010

Of George Wythe, his former tutor and mentor, Thomas Jefferson once wrote: “No man ever left behind him a character more venerated than...

The FDA: Neither Safe nor Effective

Michael Tennant September 16, 2010

Once upon a time, so the story goes, the American pharmaceutical industry was a “wild West” in which greedy, unscrupulous snake-oil salesmen preyed...

The Emerging Global Fed

Alex Newman September 16, 2010

The Federal Reserve has been a nightmare for the American people. It inflates the money supply, thereby devaluing already-existing money and placing a...