Educational Freedom in Early America
Many Americans falsely believe that there have always been government schools in our country. Some believe that compulsory public education was written into...
Opinion
A Review of Jones’ “New Heroes in Antiquity”
“What does it take to make a hero?” For anyone paying even scant attention to the lavish manner in which the media awards...
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Conservatives? Or Destructionists?
It seems strange to say it, but many of us are old enough to remember the Vietnam War. It's hard to believe you...
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Racial Stupidity and Malevolence
The white liberal's agenda, coupled with that of black race hustlers, has had and continues to have a devastating impact on ordinary black...
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Obama Against Extending Bush Tax Cuts
Despite the wave of popular anger over the ongoing recession (no, it hasn’t ended, as just about everybody outside the Beltway has figured...
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Inflaming Moslems
Were I the sort of barbarian who burns books, I’d roast all 75 volumes of the Federal Register rather than the Quran. ...
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NFL Means No Free Lunch for Taxpayers
When the 82,566 fans of the New York Giants cheer their team at the home opener of the season this Sunday at the...
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The Event is In the Hand of God
As the delegates filtered in the week and a half prior to the start of the Constitutional Convention in May of 1787,...
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A Non-Prediction
When people learn that you are an economist, they often want you to predict which way the economy is going. There seem to...
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Finally, a Sensible Solution to Unemployment
When Kevin Hassett, director of economic-policy studies at the American Enterprise Institute, wrote in Bloomberg.com that “the biggest problem with the labor market...
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Back-to-school Advice
My first recommendation is very basic. Don’t cut class. As Woody Allen stated, “Eighty percent of success is just showing up.” And it’s...
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Why Reich Is Wrong
When former Labor Secretary Robert Reich offered his solutions for ending the Great Recession in the New York Times, he repeated the same...
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Obama’s New Stimulus Target: Infrastructure
If it is true, as Albert Einstein is alleged to have said, that insanity consists of doing the same thing over and over...
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Overdose: Video Exposé on Bailout Bubble
The independent British exposé film Overdose: The Next Financial Crisis released last spring has been made available to Internet viewers on YouTube for...
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George Clooney’s “The American”
George Clooney’s newest film, The American, directed by Anton Corbijn, is a sort of combination of Clooney’s past films Up in the Air...
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