by Doug Reich | Apr 17, 2007 | Crime
Gang wars, ethnic wars, religious wars, and now the “rampage”, are all tragic manifestations of the same root cause – the rejection of reason, individualism, and rational belief in the sanctity and inviolability of every human life.
by John Stossel | Apr 14, 2007 | POLITICS
Why do we let politicians name buildings after each other? I understand building monuments to honor leaders like Washington and Jefferson. But monuments to current members of Congress? Haven’t we lowered the bar too far? Today all a congressman has to do to get... by Walter Williams | Apr 12, 2007 | POLITICS
The public has become increasingly aware that the science behind manmade global warming is a fraud. But maybe Americans like bogus science in pursuit of certain public policy objectives. Let’s look at it. Many Americans find tobacco smoke to be a nuisance. Some... by John Stossel | Apr 11, 2007 | POLITICS
Spring is here, but you may have been too busy filling out tax forms to enjoy it. The unpaid job of gathering W-2 and 1099s, sorting through receipts, and tabulating deductions, credits, and exemptions takes a lot of time. Americans spent 6.4 billion hours complying... by Andrew West | Apr 11, 2007 | MARKETS
Q: Under capitalism, can’t a group of a few wealthy individuals acting as a fund “manipulate” a stock, causing unaware investors to buy the stocks at inflated prices, where then wealthy individuals would dump the stocks, causing prices to collapse?... by Alex Epstein | Apr 10, 2007 | POLITICS
Supporters and opponents of President Bush’s Iraq War are clashing in a furious debate over who truly supports our troops. The President’s critics say they are supporting our troops by setting a timetable to bring them home from an... by John Stossel | Apr 7, 2007 | POLITICS
For the past two weeks I’ve written about how the media — part of the Fear Industrial Complex — profit by scaring us to death about things that rarely happen, like terrorism, child abductions, and shark attacks. We do it because we get caught up in... by Walter Williams | Apr 4, 2007 | POLITICS
Many of our nation’s colleges and universities have become cesspools of indoctrination, intolerance, academic dishonesty and the new racism. In a March 1991 speech, Yale President Benno Schmidt warned, “The most serious problems of freedom of expression in...
