On Being an Optimist
An optimist is someone who sees the glass half full, not half empty. An optimist is someone who sees the brighter side of...
Opinion
Interest On Debt To Quadruple Within 10 Years
Anyone who reads a newspaper knows the United States is financially doomed. Even reportage from the usual left-wing sources confirm as much to...
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Boston Students Want More Sex Ed
Sex ed has been in Boston public schools for as long as we can remember. But apparently, a group of students are not...
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A Review of Lanier’s “You Are Not a Gadget”
In an age that glorifies specialization, and often threatens to narrow the interests and achievements of individuals to subfields sterilely reduced to less...
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Pretending to Save Us from the TSA
Look out, or the politicians hustling to rescue us from the Transportation Security Administration (TSA) and its sexual assaults at the airport may...
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Obama Budget Sleight of Hand
Of all the explanations, statistics, projections, and conjecture about the Obama administration’s new budget, nothing has had the impact of this simple graph...
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Egypt’s Self-Inflicted Poverty
Why is it that Egyptians do well in the U.S. but not Egypt? We could make that same observation and pose that same...
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Gnomeo & Juliet Pays Homage to Shakespeare
The new children's movie Gnomeo & Juliet is of course an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s classic work, Romeo & Juliet. In this new...
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Obama’s Two-bit Nod to Capitalism
Attempting to patch things up a bit with the business sector, President Obama began his February 7th speech at the U.S. Chamber of...
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Deficit Expected to Surpass Size of U.S. Economy
Not only does President Barack Obama’s budget, released Monday, fail to make any real progress in spending cuts, but it reveals a frightening...
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Rocky and Republicans
Rocky Marciano was the only heavyweight champion who never lost a single fight in his whole career — and, at the time, he...
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Newt’s Contract with the Earth: Pseudo-Science, Big Government
Most Americans remember Newt Gingrich as being the former Speaker of the House who led America into the glories of conservative victory, and...
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America the Busybody, at Home and Abroad
These are times that try nations' budgets. Even President Obama is talking seriously about budget cutting — not as seriously as the Republicans...
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A Short History of Government Education
Most Americans assume that we've always had public schools, that they came with the Constitution and are an indispensable part of our democratic...
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Economic Stimulus and Economic Stress
The U.S. economy's agony endures, as “economic stress” in December escalated, with foreclosure rates a major topic of concern. According to the monthly...
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