Government: The Only Institution that Grows Through Failure
If you want to bring down a plane, blowing off parts of your own body is not the preferred method. It’s failed both...
Opinion
Crotch Bombers, Caulking & Now Healthcare?
So Umar Farouk Abdullmutallab got within an inch of having several hundred airline passengers fall from the sky over Detroit on Christmas Day,...
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Ponzi Schemes and Social Security
More than $16 billion of investors’ money evaporated in Ponzi schemes in 2009, according to the Associated Press. Although the names Bernie Madoff...
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The Fully Inept Tackle Healthcare
As I’m writing this, they’re in a panic in Congress, voting in the wee hours, bribing reluctant senators with millions in slush funds...
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Fed Backers Seek Power More Than Wealth
The prime architect of the Federal Reserve was German immigrant Paul Warburg. Arriving in America in 1902 with brother Max, he married into...
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Christianity and Salvation
There is a saying about well-intentioned but misguided friends that takes on a special meaning this time of year: "God save me from...
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A Parable of Obamacare
(With apologies to St. Luke) And it came to pass in those days that there went out a decree from the American Congress...
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The Economy: Cheerleaders vs. Reality
When MSNBC headlined the report that existing home sales surged by 7.4 percent in November (according to the National Association of Realtors), it...
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Avatar: A Visually Stunning and Perfect Historical Allegory
“You are not in Kansas anymore,” the main antagonist Colonel Miles Quaritch (Stephen Lang) growls out at the beginning of the movie Avatar,...
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China Slows U.S. Debt Purchases
Chinese officials have once again publicly stated their intention to buy less U.S. Treasury debt, according to the December 18 Shanghai Daily newspaper....
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Gang Green Going to the Dogs
The sky-is-falling greenies are getting progressively batty. It's not enough that we shut down our oil, gas, and coal industries, bike to work,...
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GOP Hawks Love Obama’s War Talk
The world of American politics has witnessed an interesting role reversal over the past couple of weeks. Barack Obama's most ardent liberal supporters...
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Climate Change Alarmists, Running Hot & Cold
Our dreadful destiny was that we were either going to starve to death or be buried by advancing glaciers in a new Ice...
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Bernanke is “Times'” Man of the Year
With the expiration of one of the most turbulent years, economically speaking, in American history, it is not surprising that Time magazine has...
Read moreCollusion Against Our Youth
I've grown somewhat weary writing about the devastating effects of minimum wage laws but The Wall Street Journal's "Black Youths Miss Out on...
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