The Obama Economic Team
As President-elect Obama continues to name the men and women who will fill his administration, I searched in vain for a newly anointed appointee who supplies even a glimmer of hope...
Opinion
Automakers Plea for Bailout
After Congress approved a so-called "rescue plan" for the financial industry during early October, one could not help but wonder how long it would be until other industries facing hard times...
Do Trillion Dollar Deficits Matter?
Vice President Dick Cheney infamously informed former Treasury Secretary Paul O'Neill in 2002: "Paul, Reagan proved deficits don't matter." Now comes news that bailout-mania combined with already out-of-control domestic spending and...
Intelligent Design and Evolution
Believers in Intelligent Design have often been scorned as being opposed to science, but science itself is showing that it is the evolutionists who are opposed to rational inquiry. ...
Piling Bailouts Upon Bailouts
ITEM: The New York Times for October 31 reported: "As the Treasury Department prepares a $40 billion program to help delinquent homeowners avoid foreclosure, it confronts a difficult challenge: not making...
Looking Beyond the Global Economic Summit
The much-ballyhooed international economic summit in Washington is over, and, according to news reports, little was accomplished aside from agreement on various vague goals by the delegations from 21 nations and...
Peter Schiff Was (and Is) Correct on Economy
For years, the so-called economic experts — Ivy League economists, Federal Reserve chairmen, Treasury Secretaries, and media financial analysts — have been selling a bull market. Buy, buy, buy; spend, spend,...
The Bailout and the Constitution
The $700 billion bank bailout plan will use taxpayer money to purchase troubled assets. How does this stack up against the limited federal powers granted by the Constitution? ...
Liberty From Global-warming Alarmism
When students are being deluged with global-warming propaganda, they desperately need life preservers. Here are some truth-filled DVDs that will help them stay afloat. ...
Obama Would Worsen the Financial Mess
If the language in his first post-election press conference is any indication, Senator Barack Obama will be true to his profligate campaign promises. He pledged in that November 7 press conference...
Upcoming Financial Summit About Global Governance
Lost in all the Obama furor, the world's leading economic powers — the so-called G-20 nations — are quietly laying plans for a November 15th summit in Washington, D.C., that may...
No Chiding Charlie Reese
Journalist Charlie Reese recently opined on the Salem-News.com that "545 human beings out of 300 million are directly, legally, morally, and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country."...
A Convenient Book About the Environment
Anyone concerned about the environment and seeking the best solutions for how to protect it will find The Really Inconvenient Truths, by Iain Murray, to be a valuable, fact-filled resource that...
That’s “Comrade Bush” According to Chavez
If Hugo Chavez, the Marxist president of Venezuela, has his way, the legacy of President George W. Bush will be that he brought America "surging" to the left of even the...
The Panic of 2008
Thanks to Congress, the American taxpayer has been stuck with the bill for the bailout plan — but that is only the beginning. Where else could the Panic of 2008 take...