Dollar Values Plunge Worldwide
Just call it irony. The same day the value of the dollar plunged to a current-year low as measured against six other major currencies, and the same week in which the...
Opinion
My Experiences With National Healthcare
Obama’s castle-in-the-air, pie-in-the-sky, wish-upon-a-star health care would never, could never, and should never be appropriate for Americans. As Dr. Seuss might put it, “not in a hush, not in a rush;...
Bernanke’s Public Relations Offensive
Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke must know he’s in trouble. This week he completed a “town hall”-style meeting for PBS television to promote the Federal Reserve and suppress what appears to...
Right to Self-defense Should Know No Borders
On July 23, the U.S. Senate voted to defeat one of the most promising gun rights bills to come to the Senate floor in recent memory. The provision was introduced by...
A Review of Bauerlein’s “The Dumbest Generation”
The Dumbest Generation is a book that is painful to read, but which Americans dare not ignore. The book’s title reflects the confrontational character of its findings: Mark Bauerlein addresses a...
Darwinism: Flawed, Disastrous — and Stolen
Within 20 words of the beginning of the prologue to his book, The End of Darwinism, former U.S. Information Agency Assistant Science Adviser Eugene Windchy announces the thesis upon which the...
Privatization’s Pitfalls
As our nationalized economy continues imploding, government feels the financial pinch that used to hurt taxpayers alone. And so a passion for privatization now rages. Towns in California, Kansas, Oregon, Tennessee,...
“Let It Come!”
During Patrick Henry's famous "Give me liberty or give me death" speech, he said the following: "Mr. President, it is natural to man to indulge in the illusions of hope....
When Socialists Are in Power, Expect Tyranny
There are three kinds of organizations that require coercion for their successful function: governments, utopians, and criminals. Because the Founding Fathers understood the coercive power of government, they crafted a Constitution...
The Fourth Amendment’s Shocking Development
In a ruling issued in June, Niagara County (New York) Judge Sara Sheldon Sperrazza concluded that the Niagara Falls Police Department was justified in its use of a Taser to extract...
CBO to Congress: Spending & Debt “Unsustainable”
Congressional Budget Office Director Douglas W. Elmendorf gave a fiscal wake-up call to Senate Budget Committee members in testimony on July 16, noting that “the federal budget is on an unsustainable...
Fed Backers Scared by Ron Paul’s Audit Bill
Congressman Ron Paul’s H.R. 1207, calling for an audit of the Federal Reserve, has attracted 270 cosponsors in less than five months. The Republican congressman's bill has received strong bipartican support,...
Gregg Knocks Obama Deficits
Sen. Judd Gregg, R-NH, knocked the spending plans of the Obama administration Tuesday, one day after the Treasury Department announced the deficit reached the $1 trillion mark at the end of...
Recession Far From Over, Says Zuckerman
The economy isn’t out of the woods yet, not by a long shot. That, at least, is the conclusion drawn by none other than U.S. News & World Report’s eminence grise...
Bruno: Some Dare Call It Art
If art imitates life, then life is starting to seem an awful lot like death. This occurs to me when I think about Bruno, the latest film disgorged by English comedian...