Generation Zero
While I certainly look back with fondness on the “Greatest Generation,” I can’t help but think that the superlative applied to it may...
Opinion
Racism or Stupidity
A black or white person, now dead, who lived during the civil rights struggles of the 1930s, '40s or '50s, might very well...
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How Smart Are We?
Many of the wonderful-sounding ideas that have been tried as government policies have failed disastrously. Because so few people bother to study history,...
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Times Still Fumes Over Free Speech
The whine still flows at the New York Times, where the death of the republic is being observed over the carcass of federal...
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Big Benefits, Hot Air, and Scarce Jobs
Pushing for more billions in deficit spending to extend jobless benefits to a record 99 weeks, or nearly two years, House Speaker Nancy...
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Americanus Speaks to Arizona’s Immigration Crisis and to All of Us
As the illegal immigration crisis proceeds a pace, and an American President has so far removed himself from his duty (and his wits)...
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Thugs Beat Citizens in China — and Here
I recently had lunch with a friend of mine who is a devout believer in American exceptionalism and the moral duty we have...
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Salt: Taut and Accidentally Timely Spy Thriller
A good spy thriller should accomplish two things — it should thrill and it should intrigue. With taut action sequences and a well-written...
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Will God Endorse Newt Gingrich?
Perhaps you missed this one. God apparently has been moved ahead of the Iowa caucuses in the process of choosing the next American...
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Let’s Throw This Rascal Out
If there were any liberal Democrats in the crowd that filled Bally’s Convention Center in Las Vegas two weeks ago, they kept a...
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Paul Craig Roberts: America Has Become an Oligarchy of Private Interests
Earlier this year, it looked as if columnist Paul Craig Roberts had hung up his word processor in disgust, having just published his...
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Bernanke: Fed Could ‘Step Into New Areas’
Federal Reserve boss Ben Bernanke told Congress this week that despite not having any imminent plans to further “support” the economy, the central...
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The Most Effective Weapon of Every Arbitrary Government
Government Security News reports that "the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now interested in acquiring portable versions of [advanced imaging technology (AIT)...
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Financial Overhaul Law Boon to Financial Overlords
A triumphant and triumphalist President Obama signed the financial overhaul bill into law July 21, promising as he did that “the American people...
Read moreMaking Americans Sick
Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius promised, "The U.S. government plans to increase funding to battle obesity and views healthcare reform as...
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