by Dr Michael Hurd | Feb 27, 2009 | POLITICS
Alan Greenspan should never have departed from Ayn Rand’s principles. It wasn’t practical: Not for him, and not for the rest of us.
by Walter Williams | Feb 25, 2009 | POLITICS
Attorney General Eric Holder said the United States is “a nation of cowards” when it comes to race relations. In one sense, he is absolutely right. Many whites, from university administrators and professors, schoolteachers to employers and public officials... by Ron Pisaturo | Feb 25, 2009 | POLITICS
In his address before a joint session of Congress last night, Obama dictated his plan for America, to be financed and “serviced” by productive Americans. Obama will take from individuals the wealth that they created and needed for their own plans.... by Thomas A. Bowden | Feb 25, 2009 | Business
Shifting the financial pain of business failure onto society at large is unjust.
by Harry Binswanger | Feb 24, 2009 | POLITICS
There’s no such thing as a “stimulus” to the economy. The closest you could get to that in reality would be a retrenchment of government controls and looting: de-regulation and spending cuts. But even those are not “stimuli” but a... by Thomas Sowell | Feb 23, 2009 | POLITICS
An increasing number of recent letters and e-mails from readers strike a note, not only of unhappiness with the way things are going in our society, but a note of despair. Those of us who are pessimists are only a step away from despair ourselves, so we may not be the... by George Reisman | Feb 22, 2009 | Economics
The blind rush into massive “stimulus packages” is the culmination of generations of economic ignorance transmitted from professor to student in the guise of advanced, revolutionary thinking—the “Keynesian revolution.”
by Dr Michael Hurd | Feb 22, 2009 | Free Speech, POLITICS
A growing number of “elites,” including Bill Clinton, are calling for a return of the “fairness doctrine” to talk radio, a sure indication that Congress and the new President will soon be taking on this issue. Supporters of the “fairness... by Thomas A. Bowden | Feb 20, 2009 | Money & Banking, POLITICS
Is General Motors to become a brain-dead patient in a Federal bailout ward, languishing on tax-funded life support beyond all hope of recovery? Not if Congress steps aside and lets the bankruptcy courts do justice through adjudication.