Economists Say Tax Hikes Will Curb Economic Growth
As the deadline to extend the Bush-era tax cuts looms, economists have agreed that the pending tax hikes would be devastating to the...
Opinion
Obama Gets Endorsement of Voting Machine in N.C.
Are electronic voting machines really a good idea? Sure, after the 2000 election, with its hanging chads and Florida early-bird-special voters who couldn’t...
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The Truth and Politics
By looking at such diverse thinkers from the past as Machiavelli, Mosca, and Schumpeter, I show, first, that truth is not a virtue in...
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Is College Worth the Cost?
According to a cover story in Newsweek of September 17, 2012, there is a "college bubble" much like the housing bubble; one that...
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Libya and Lies
It was a little much when President Barack Obama said that he was "offended" by the suggestion that his administration would try to...
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A Review of John Wesley Rawles’ “Founders”
A review of the third installment in Rawles' Novels of the Coming Crisis series. ...
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Romney’s Education Plan
Although not much has been said about education in the presidential campaign, the candidates have prepared their answers on the issue in case...
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Election 2012: Sound Bites vs. Reality
Any good advertising man knows that a catchy slogan is worth a thousand words. A lot more customers are won by “Coke is...
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Book Review: The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom
In his book The War on Drugs Is a War on Freedom, Laurence Vance illustrates the absurdities and inconsistencies of the federal government’s...
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Senator Paul Takes On Government Bullies
Among other atrocities, the government regularly arrests, prosecutes, and imprisons Americans for trivial vagaries in the law. In his book Government Bullies, Senator...
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Study: Women Have Trouble Handling Bad News
According to recent research, women feel far more anxiety after reading negative news stories than men do. Is this phenomenon real? And, if...
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Will Vote Fraud Win the Election for Obama?
As someone who thinks the president is the kind of man who lights up a room when he leaves it, I assuredly take...
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America’s Drone Terrorism
The NYU/Stanford study “Living Under Drones” goes beyond reporting estimates of the civilian casualties inflicted by the deadly and illegal U.S. campaign. It...
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Our Posturing, Prevaricating President
Unlike the first debate, Obama had clearly done his homework for the second debate Tuesday. He was primed and prepared, rattling off one...
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Enough Already with the Women-Get-Paid-Less Nonsense
It’s sadly the case that modern men are afraid to tell women the truth. Especially when those men are running for office and...
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