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...
Opinion
Secretariat Entertains Despite Flaws
Secretariat, directed by Randall Wallace, opens with Secretariat's owner, Penny Chenery, quoting a Bible verse from Job. In the verse, God speaks of...
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“It’s Kind of a Funny Story” Is Kind of Funny — and Profound
It’s Kind of a Funny Story is by far one of the better films to be produced in recent years. But viewers beware...
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The Illusion of Rightward Movement
In this time of Tea Parties and tanking Democrat poll numbers, people are, depending on their point of view, hailing or howling about...
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A Trillion Reasons to Buy Gold Now
I can already hear some of you saying, “Now Chip really has lost his mind. Doesn’t he know gold is the most expensive it’s...
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Greenspan’s Fear and Trembling
Alan Greenspan, former chairman of the Federal Reserve, is worried about many things. In March he worried about the future of the economy....
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Dyslexia: The Disease You Can Easily Get in School
For years I have been telling parents and educators that the kind of reading difficulties afflicting perfectly normal children in our schools today...
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Red Herring Politics: Part II
Some of the longest-serving members of Congress, whose party has overwhelming majorities in both houses, are having far closer election races than they...
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Politicians Exploit Economic Ignorance
One of President Obama's campaign promises was not to raise taxes on middle-class Americans. So here's my question: If there's a corporate tax...
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The State, Serfs, and Suicide
Sodomy’s advocates want us to believe that evil is good, that sin is simply a “lifestyle choice,” and that such hellish ideas have...
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Translating Bernanke-speak About the Great Recession
When Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke says the country is in trouble, many aren’t listening, partly because the media wasn’t there reporting on it,...
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Red Herring Politics
In an election year, this is the time for an "October surprise" — some sensational, and usually irrelevant, revelation to distract the voters...
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Obama on Jobs: Flip-floppin’ & Flying Blind
The rhetoric at the White House radically changed on September 27. The event was the signing by President Obama of the Small Business...
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Bush Left Budget Surplus — in Iraq
If you are still wondering what, besides endless wars and astronomical growth in federal spending, might be the legacy of President George W....
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Honoring Our Country’s Flag
Do you live in a community of flag flyers? I’m happy to say that I do. Several of my neighbors fly the Stars...
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