Poll Shows Americans More Concerned About Jobs Than Oil Spill
The results of a Gallup poll taken from June 11 through 13 and released on June 17 indicated that more Americans rate the economy and jobs as the nation’s biggest problems...
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Vile Villains and Heroes Galore as the Feds Save Us Again
Barry Bujol of Texas converted to Islam. So did Carlos Eduardo Almonte. He lives in New Jersey near his friend Mohamed Alessa, also Moslem. Judging by names, these guys boast ethnicities...
Judge Napolitano Hosts Tea Party Summit on “Freedom Watch”
“The American public needs to know and understand that the government that serves best is the one that serves less.” This is how Judge Andrew Napolitano concluded his debut episode of...
New Karate Kid Is a Cinematic Adventure
The 2010 remake of the Karate Kid is a definite improvement upon the 1984 version. It expands upon the coming-of-age element found in the original film, but with impressive choreography and...
Eminent Domain and the Rights of Property
In China, one man has had enough. Yang Youde, who lives near the city of Wuhan, has had to begin defending his property rights with homemade artillery. He's not fighting...
The Fourth and Freedom
If you had to choose one amendment from the Bill of Rights that most undergirds liberty, which would it be? I’d probably go with the Second, because guns are freedom sculpted...
Can Black Americans Afford Obama?
My March 2008 column "Is Obama Ready for America?" started out: "Some pundits ask whether America is ready for Obama. The much more important question is whether Obama is ready for...
Robin Hood: The Movie, the Critics, and the Tea Party
Moviegoers worldwide have enthusiastically rewarded Robin Hood since its opening in May with gross ticket sales of more than a quarter of a billion dollars, and the film is well in...
Killers-cum-Cannon-Fodder
Anyone who loves liberty must have relished the criticism Memorial Day earned this year. Whether at the mainstream Los Angeles Times or alternative websites, Americans increasingly condemn the holiday’s glorification of...
The Dangers of Pasta in Gaza
Watch and listen to enough TV news shows and you develop a growing awareness and appreciation for the dangers of pasta. No, I'm not talking about danger to the heart, or...
The Best Introduction to Economics in Print
If this writer were to claim that Peter and Andrew Schiff have created the master work of introducing basic Austrian economics that could be clearly understood by anyone of middle-school age...
Obama’s “Single-dime” Hot Air
Sea Isle, N.J. — We’re sitting here on our beach chairs looking for tar balls. So far, everything's pristine. The gulls are still white, not yet looking like crows. ...
Let the Umps Watch the Plays, Not the Replays
The good news for tradition-minded sports fans is that Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig has indicated he is not going to overrule the call by umpire Jim Joyce that cost Detroit...
National Debt at Tipping Point?
The Wall Street Journal took another look at the $13 trillion national debt written about here last week and announced that, according to a study by economists Carmen Reinhart and Kenneth...
What Is To Be Done?
In response to the question, “What is to be done?” Or more to the point, ‘What is to be done to save the Republic from the grasp of the Establishment and...