Red: Star-studded Cast Feels Crunched
Retirement. The word can conjure visions of sweet oases of rest and relaxation between games of golf and lazy morning bouts with crossword...
Opinion
Obama’s Race to the Bottom: Punish Schoolchildren by Racial Quota
Last year I wrote about a Tucson Unified School District social engineering plan that had the effect of meting out punishment based on...
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Blessed Tolerance: The Virtue of a Republic in Decline
Approximately two and a half millennia ago, Plato, in his classic work, The Republic, unveiled a more intimate look into our just discussed...
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The Mortgage Foreclosure Crisis
Let us be blunt: The mortgage foreclosure crisis, which first burst into full public view with Bank of America’s suspension of all foreclosures...
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O’Donnell’s “Witchcraft” is Same Old “Voodoo”
Some of us may have thought politics in America couldn't get more absurd than it was in the 1970's, when we had a...
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When “Almost” Isn’t Good Enough
“Let me save you some trouble,” author Kenda Creasy Dean says in the very first sentence of her book Almost Christian: What the...
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Government Greed
Those who are always accusing people in the private sector of "greed" almost never accuse government of greed, no matter what it does....
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The Federal Reserve Makes Plan to Increase the Money Supply — Again
The notes of the latest meeting of the Federal Reserve, released on Tuesday, clearly show the Fed’s next step in trying to solve...
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Invisible Victims
The National Transportation Safety Board has again recommended that airlines require a separate seat for all children, regardless of age, eliminating the current...
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National Law of the Harvest
There is a Christian church in America that contends, as did many of our Christian forefathers, that America “is a choice land; and...
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A Review of “Spanish Texas, 1519-1821”
In an age of American culture wars against the particularities of the various regions of these United States, many citizens act as if...
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Feingold Versus Johnson
One of a surprising number of old, well-established politicians being challenged in this year's election by some unknown newcomer is Senator Russ Feingold...
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Recession Over? Pardon My Disbelief
On September 22, the Business Cycle Dating Committee of the National Bureau of Economic Research (BCDC-NBER) announced that the recession (it began in...
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What’s So Bad About Paladino’s ‘Homophobia’?
Sometimes it's amazing to observe what is and is not controversial these days. Except in a few rare instances where parents organize to...
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A Primer in Protectionism
Despite opaque and dissembling arguments that what the world needs now is a world currency to replace the weakening dollar, there are significant...
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