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“Putting Terror in Every Heart”

Are African elephants an endangered species? Like so many questions, the answer depends on who’s giving it. Villagers in northern Uganda whose food...

Becky Akers December 14, 2011

Did Obama Give Anti-Free Market Speech at Osawatomie for Communist Connection?

Selwyn Duke December 13, 2011

We’re told that Barack Obama chose the obscure locale of Osawatomie, Kansas, for his recent domestic policy speech because it was the site...

Neocons Don’t Believe Their Own Anti-Iran Propaganda

Sheldon Richman December 13, 2011

We're being lied to about the purported Iranian nuclear threat, and the war party knows it. In ways eerily reminiscent of the 2002...

Gridlock to the Rescue?

Thomas Sowell December 13, 2011

Washington gridlock may turn out to be the salvation of the Obama administration. ...

Gresham’s Law at Work: Pennies and Nickels Are Disappearing

Bob Adelmann December 13, 2011

When Kyle Bass defended his decision on BBC Radio Hard Talk on November 17th to purchase 20 million nickels, he was just putting Gresham’s...

Dependency on Government Continues to Grow

Bob Adelmann December 13, 2011

Conservative economist Robert Higgs' (pictured at left) warnings about the Heritage Foundation’s Index of Dependence on Government were already outdated when they were published...

The War on Christmas: Lincoln Chafee’s Holy Day Tree

Selwyn Duke December 12, 2011

I’m not sure why ex-Senator and current Rhode Island Governor Lincoln Chafee keeps getting elected, but I’m quite sure he offends me. I...

Stop Stealing From My Grandkids!

Wallis W. Wood December 12, 2011

The Federal Reserve has joined an open conspiracy with its other central-banking buddies to steal several trillion dollars from my grandchildren. ...

“Soak the Rich” Policies and the Great Depression

Ralph R. Reiland December 12, 2011

Pushing his agenda for higher taxes on “the rich,” President Obama kicked off his December 6 speech in Kansas by saying his Kansas...

Politics and Vice

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. December 10, 2011

Nothing like politics more readily reveals man’s intellectual and moral vices. If ever we were in need of proof of the truth of...

Virginia Tech Massacre #2: I Wanna Be Around When They Pick Up the Pieces

Beverly K. Eakman December 9, 2011

I was out grocery shopping when the news on the giant store monitor hit: Once again, there had been shootings at Virginia Tech,...

For Whom Should a Liberty-loving Republican Vote?

Jack Kerwick, Ph.D. December 9, 2011

You are a Republican. You consider yourself a “conservative,” maybe even a “Tea Partier.” But whatever you prefer to call yourself, the truth...

College Mate: Obama Was an “Ardent” “Marxist-Leninist”

Selwyn Duke December 9, 2011

Barack Obama’s speech in Osawatomie, Kansas, has certainly made waves. Well-received by the mainstream media, The Baltimore Sun wrote that the President has...