Death in Russia: “Killing Girls”
Sad though it is, man has seldom had much trouble killing his youngest fellows. If the ancient Spartans perceived any imperfection in a child, for instance, they would “expose” him, which...
Opinion
VP Biden: “We misread the economy” and other lies
Asked by This Week’s George Stephanopoulos about the Obama Administration’s terrible economic prognostications in advance of passage of the $787 billion “stimulus” spending bill back in February, Vice President Joe Biden...
Free Bernie Madoff? That’s a Little Too Much
The Ludwig von Mises Institute’s Jeffrey Tucker recently published a column entitled "Free Bernie Madoff," in which he makes the case for freeing the $67 billion swindler. ...
California’s Economic Implosion
California, the "Golden State," is not golden anymore. It has the biggest debt, the biggest budget deficit, the lowest bond rating, and (arguably) the highest taxes of any state in the...
Calif. Bonds Totter as State Issues IOUs
Back in February, California politicians and taxpayers received a wake-up call, but, apparently, the alarm wasn't loud enough to wake them. ...
Obama Wants Consumer Financial Protection Agency
The Obama administration on June 30 unveiled its latest attempt to put an end to the free market in financial services in the United States. ...
Judge Napolitano’s Dred Scott’s Revenge
Judge Andrew P. Napolitano is the host of the Fox News online show Freedom Watch (which might soon be televised) and also is a co-host of the Fox News Radio show...
Whither the Dollar?
As the fallout from the global financial crisis continues, the burning question in international financial circles is whether the U. S. dollar, the world’s reserve currency since the Second World War,...
Federal Reserve Hiring Lobbyist for Political War
The Federal Reserve caused the current economic crisis by suppressing interest rates and creating the housing bubble, Texas Congressman Ron Paul, Euro Pacific Capital president Peter Schiff, and others have charged....
Interest Cost of New Federal Debt Skyrockets
The Obama administration’s efforts to borrow the U.S. economy into prosperity are meeting more and more skepticism on Wall Street as investors in the bond market are fleeing the U.S. debt...
Nurturing the Great Depression
With all eyes on the precarious global economy, 20th-century economic history has never been more relevant. Interpretations of the defining economic episode of the last century — the Great Depression —...
Amnesty International Releases 2009 Report
Amnesty International has released their 2009 report on “The State of the World’s Human Rights.” Dealing with topics ranging from “abuses by armed groups” to “worker’s rights,” and covering countries from...
Obama’s IMF Sneak Attack
A hundred and eight billion dollars — $108,000,000,000. Not exactly an eye-popping sum anymore, in an era of multi-trillion-dollar annual budgets and multi-trillion-dollar annual deficits. Still, even with government spending streaking...
Keynesians and Kahnsians Populate D.C.
Neoconservatism, Pat Buchanan has written, is “the Arian heresy of the American right.” The Arians denied the humanity of Jesus, disputing the “Hypostatic Union.” Neocons are wrong, often tragically wrong. But...
Movie Review: Angels and Demons
This weekend I saw Angels & Demons, the controversial film directed by Ron Howard and based on Dan Brown’s book by the same name. The movie is a sequel to the...