by Tom DeWeese | Feb 28, 2006 | Technology, United Nations
This then is the real reason the United Nations seeks control of the Internet. It’s particularly interested in gaining access to your personal records.
by Steve Buckstein | Feb 27, 2006 | POLITICS
The Oregon Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Measure 37, the property rights initiative approved by the voters in 2004. It requires government to either compensate landowners for reductions of real property fair market value due to certain... by Onkar Ghate | Feb 26, 2006 | Environment, Terrorism
The good news: a federal grand jury in Eugene, Oregon, has indicted 11 people on charges that they committed acts of domestic terrorism on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front. Moreover, now one of the FBI’s “highest... by Craig Biddle | Feb 25, 2006 | POLITICS
It is widely believed today that our cultural and political alternatives are limited either to the ideas of the secular, relativistic left–or to those of the religious, absolutist right–or to some compromised mixture of the two. In other words, one’s... by Thomas Sowell | Feb 24, 2006 | Education, POLITICS
The resignation of Lawrence Summers as president of Harvard University tells us a lot about what is wrong with academia today. When he took office in 2001, Summers seemed like an ideal president of Harvard. He had had a distinguished career in and out of the academic... by Dr Michael Hurd | Feb 23, 2006 | Healthcare
Most talk of addictions as something over which the individual is helpless. Yet how does this explain that so many end their addictions? People quit smoking all the time. People quit alcohol. They quit nail-biting. They even quit heroin and crack cocaine. These are... by Walter Williams | Feb 22, 2006 | POLITICS
Let’s start off with a few quotations, then a question. In reference to the president’s State of the Union: “Sounds a lot like the things Adolf Hitler used to say.” “Bush is threatening the whole planet.” “[The] U.S. wants to... by George Reisman | Feb 21, 2006 | Regulation
The people who will be stopped by the system will not be terrorists but innocent citizens, seeking to evade unjust laws and regulations.
by Thomas Sowell | Feb 21, 2006 | POLITICS
Let’s face it: Reality can be stressful and can sometimes get very rough. Everyone has an incentive to postpone it. Most of us, however, learn the hard way that postponing reality only makes it far worse than facing it early on. The problem gets more complicated...