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Beck May Leave Fox News and Pursue Own Channel

Speculation over the length of conservative pundit Glenn Beck’s tenure at Fox News has pervaded media circles and conservative blogs almost since the...

Raven Clabough April 5, 2011

Fannie, Freddie, and the Feds’ Double Standard on Executive Pay

Michael Tennant April 4, 2011

On February 4, 2009, President Barack Obama signed legislation establishing a $500,000 limit on executive compensation at firms receiving federal aid through the...

Cash For Clunkers 2? It’s Coming

Raven Clabough March 30, 2011

Even after the Cash for Clunkers program failed, the federal government refuses to give up. It is now launching Cash for Clunkers 2,...

Financial Sector Lures Math Talent from Industry

Charles Scaliger March 29, 2011

Credit Time magazine for identifying, however imprecisely, a very important but little understood consequence of the modern Federal Reserve-based financial system: a “brain...

LSU Economist: Obama Drilling Moratorium Cost Billions

R. Cort Kirkwood March 22, 2011

President Barack Obama's imprudent moratorium on drilling for oil in the Gulf Of Mexico cost not only the Gulf region but also the...

New York Times Web Site to Go Behind Pay Wall

Dave Bohon March 18, 2011

In the realm of online news, the New York Times is one of the premier go-to sites that hundreds of thousands of news...

Postal Service Faces Shortfall

Bruce Walker March 7, 2011

The number of activities contemplated by the Founding Fathers in the Constitution for the federal government is very small. However, astute Americans are...

Foreclosures, Bankruptcies Hitting Churches

Dave Bohon February 7, 2011

With the number of home foreclosures on pace to hit one million this year, many Americans were hoping to look to the church...

Huffington Post Strikes Deal With AOL

Raven Clabough February 7, 2011

Reports that the Huffington Post struck a deal with online company AOL, Inc. that involves the sale of the Huffington Post to the online...

USPS to Close Thousands of Post Offices

Dave Bohon January 31, 2011

With at least $7 billion in losses expected in 2011 and similar setbacks over the past several years, the United States Postal Service...

Many Bailed-out Banks May Fail Anyway

Charles Scaliger December 27, 2010

As many as 98 banks, which took in a total of $4.2 billion from the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), may fail anyway,...

Facebook Founder Named Time’s “Person of the Year”

Dave Bohon December 16, 2010

Twenty-six-year-old Mark Zuckerberg, founder of the social networking website Facebook, has been selected as Time magazine’s Person of the Year for 2010. Facebook,...

Small Gold Buyers Face Big Government Burdens

Bruce Walker December 3, 2010

Gold has always been the bane of big government planners. The precious metal has, from time immemorial, constituted real and portable wealth. Diamonds...

Unemployment Rate Rises to 9.8%

James Heiser December 3, 2010

As extended unemployment benefits for two million Americans began to run out this week, the economic news from Washington remains bleak. According to...