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Unleashing a Terrorist

FBI Special Agent Jack Cloonan, a lead investigator in the bureau’s “bin Laden Unit,” was in Yemen on September 11, 2001 when airliners began crashing into the World Trade Center and...

Ron Paul and Guy Fawkes

"Yesterday," MSNBC reported on November 6, "Ron Paul’s campaign raised more than $4 million in a grassroots push tied to the Guy Fawkes plot to blow up the British Parliament in...

Not Accepting Student Failure

For a brief period in January, the Internet and talk shows were abuzz with chatter about public schools: “Did Oprah Winfrey really imply that students aren’t learning because they don’t want...

Express Route to Poverty

For a variety of reasons, the United States is getting creamed in world trade. In trade with China alone, America’s trade deficit jumped from $6 million in 1985 to $201 billion...

Blown Away: Wind Energy Analyzed

Hardly a stump speech goes by without a political candidate calling for “more renewable sources of energy such as wind or solar” to either stop our dependence on foreign oil or...

The Specter of Inflation

At a conference on April 16, Richard Fisher, president and chief executive officer of the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas, warned that the U.S. economy could be facing trouble in the...

Taking The High Road

Seventeenth-century Spanish explorers, following established Indian and buffalo trails, crossed the Rio Grande northward from Mexico, effectively blazing the Camino Real, the King’s Highway. Later known as Old San Antonio Road,...

Global Warming Skepticism

An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary on the threat posed by global warming, took home two Oscars at the recently held 79th annual Academy Awards. The Academy awarded the filmmakers with...

What Happened to Global Cooling?

In the 1970s both the media and climatologists sounded the alarm about catastrophic climate change. But they imagined a very different scenario from today's forecasts — global cooling, not global warming....

Remembering a Champion

Helen Chenoweth-Hage will always be remembered as a champion of private property rights, a steadfast patriot, and a model of Christian charity, courage, and perseverance. ...