The Babe and the Cynic
A certain very erudite and always entertaining social critic remarked recently that he always thought the worst of people. He went on to say — perhaps, at most, half...
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Communism Now Big in Japan; Still Little in Virtue
Will the grinding poverty and initiative killing of collectivism soon wear the label “Made in Japan”? Such a prospect is likely a ways off, but it could become a...
Are Children Dumber Today Than a Century Ago?
With the realization that most of today's college graduates couldn't pass a 1912 Kentucky eighth-grade graduation exam, many people are asking if today's youth are less intelligent that those...
Diploma Disaster?
With the job market glutted with unemployed young people with college degrees, is getting a college education a solid plan or a disaster waiting to happen? ...
Obama’s Dangerous Racial Hang-ups
When Barack Obama said that if he had a son, “he’d look like Trayvon,” it perhaps didn’t say much for him as a parent. And when the president now...
When Atlas Shrugged at Detroit
Detroit was once America’s most prosperous city, but now is an urban wasteland. A former Detroit business owner tells his story and explains how the city's economy was killed...
Total Recall: Why Recall Elections Are a Must
If politicians knew that breaking an election promise or stabbing good Americans in the back would result in an immediate recall effort, they’d be more likely to mind their...
George Zimmerman and the Wannabe Cop
While government has its place, the fact is that the realm outside government called society has been relinquishing its legitimate authority to the state for quite a long time....
Non-Muslim Student Denied Water During Ramadan
What critics might call the march of multiculturalism and war on Christianity are continuing apace in the United Kingdom ... and beyond. ...
10 Really Stupid Things Liberals Have Said
Who is smarter, liberals or conservatives? Take a gander at this list of two-brain-cell wonders, and make up your own mind. Or, if you're a liberal, you can just...
Former Electric-car Engineer: Electric Cars Pollute More Than Gas
Former plug-in advocate and General Motors engineer Ozzie Zehner once built his own hybrid car that could run on electricity or natural gas. And he was convinced, he writes,...
Claim: Justice Department Stoked Fires of Anti-Zimmerman Protests
It is now known that the Department of Justice sent operatives to Florida in the wake of the George Zimmerman/Trayvon Martin shooting incident. But while their stated mission was...
Obama: Forcing Christians to Eat the Pork
Obama insists on trying to force religious employers to fund contraception for their employees, despite the fact that offering such individuals an exemption would cost him nothing politically and...
Study: Too Little Carbon Dioxide Will Destroy Earth
According to a recent study, life on Earth will suffer a carbon-dioxide-related extinction. But contrary to popular-culture belief, the problem is not that man is spewing too much of...
Trayvon, Rachel, and White Privilege
Perhaps I’m just a “creepy-a** cracka’ ” who doesn’t get it. But it always seems that when it comes to standards, the Left gives you two for the price...