The Cheerios Charade
If ever there was a textbook example of why a free people should think twice before tasking government with a job (much less dedicate an entire agency to it), the Food...
About: Denise Behreandt
Posts by Denise Behreandt
A Primer on the Illuminati
Type?? “Illuminati” into an Internet search engine and you will wind up with an impossible aggregation too numerous and contradictory to be useful. A search on Ask.com yields 1.4 million entries,...
GM Files Chapter 11 Bankruptcy
After years of suspense, the bankruptcy that surprises nobody is finally official. One of America’s largest and proudest corporations, GM, has filed for Chapter 11 protection in what is being billed...
A Community Steps Up
UPI reports that on January 30, 2009, 25-year-old Adolfo Valle was on his way to the grocery store when he accidentally turned down the wrong street. Well, the wrong street to...
Roots of Economic Crisis
Once upon a time, when the world was still on the gold standard, four men destroyed the financial order of things by engineering, by accident or by design, the collapse of...
Iran and the Shah: What Really Happened
Americans have been hearing for several years about potential war with Iran. For instance, on September 17, 2006, Time magazine reported, "The U.S. would have to consider military action long before...
Ambiguous Boundaries at Our Borders
It’s January 5, 2010 and you’re returning from Christmas vacation in Germany. While there, you read newspaper accounts of a potent and virulent strain of mad cow disease stampeding its way...
Supreme Self-sufficiency: The Way It Should Be
These days it seems everyone has a hand out, expecting a handout from the Nanny State. It is difficult to remember a time when Americans were self-sufficient and independent, and would...
Lessons of the Weimar Republic
In the wake of President Obama’s $3.6 trillion budget and a series of bank and industry bailouts by the Federal Reserve, the specter of hyperinflation haunts the United States. There are...
Creeping Nationalization
Though the Obama administration continues to deny it, the U.S. government continues to move closer to nationalizing the nation’s largest banks. The last week of February the Federal Reserve and the...
Google Beware of Antitrust Nominee
Google, the internationally popular Internet search engine, is under fire. Christine A. Varney, President Barack Obama's nominee to be the next antitrust chief at the Justice Department, has publicly branded Google...
Jesus of Nazareth
His birthday is celebrated throughout the world this month. Though he lived on earth only 33 years, today's date is measured from when he was born. Though he lived in an...
When God is Cast from the Altar
According to The Sun, Russia has experienced a series of murders, rapes, mutilations, and desecrations linked to Satanists. No, I did not say Stalinists, although, given how communists will persecute Christians,...
O, Come All Ye Faithful!
The great theme of Christmas is an ancient one; it lies, indeed, at the root of our years, for it brought a before and after to the centuries. ...
The Gift of Giving
The illustrious Christian writer C.S. Lewis could be unequivocally grumpy about certain contemporary Christmas customs, if we judge from his essays on the subject. For example, in his 1970 essay collection,...