Intelligent Design vs. Evolution
On the night of September 14th, I was watching Piers Morgan interview the great British entrepreneur Sir Richard Branson, founder of Virgin Airlines....
Opinion
Obama’s Dishonest Jobs Infomercial
Did you listen to Barack Obama’s speech to a joint session of Congress on September 8? Remember? It had to be squeezed in...
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Movie Review: Dolphin Tale
When a young boy discovers a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap, he is inspired to be a hero. A...
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Free Market Economist Cheers End of Borders Books
Dr. Mark Perry, economics professor at the University of Michigan and blogger at Carpe Diem joyously announced that the closing of Borders’ last...
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Chasing Money Out of the Economy
Ninety years ago — in 1921 — federal income tax policies reached an absurdity that many people today seem to want to repeat....
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The Electorate Is Waking Up
The victory of conservative Republican Bob Turner in New York’s Ninth Congressional District to replace the disgraced Democrat Anthony Weiner in the House...
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Cheating Scandals in the Public Schools
One of the purposes of No Child Left Behind, the education reform program promoted by President George W. Bush and Senator Ted Kennedy...
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Helping the Economy by Doing Nothing
Some people are hoping that President Obama's plan will get the economy out of the doldrums and start providing jobs for the unemployed....
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Too Much Higher Education
Too much of anything is just as much a misallocation of resources as it is too little, and that applies to higher education...
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Census Bureau’s U.S. Poverty Report a Boon For Obama’s Jobs Agenda?
Released on Tuesday, the Census Bureau’s annual report flashed a dismal economic outlook, showing that U.S. poverty has exceeded 46 million people —...
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Fair-weather Politicians
It’s tough to feel sorry for a billionaire who’s also a powerful politician, but once in a rare while I almost manage it....
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Obama’s Jobs Proposal: Good Politics, Bad Economics
Those who are impressed by words seem to think that President Barack Obama made a great speech to Congress last week. But, when...
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The Meaning of 9/11
It is now possible to see why it has taken so long to restore the area where the two giant World Trade Center...
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Govt & Private Healthcare: Two Different Worlds
A few weeks ago, I had what seemed to me a small medical problem, so I phoned my primary physician. However, after we...
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A Review of “Apollo 18”
The success of the United States’ manned missions to the Moon have been the focus of strange conspiracy theories for decades, and a...
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