by Walter Williams | Dec 3, 2008 | POLITICS
How about a few civics questions? Name the three branches of government. If you answered the executive, legislative and judicial, you are more informed than 50 percent of Americans. The Delaware-based Intercollegiate Studies Institute (ISI) recently released the... by Richard E. Ralston | Dec 1, 2008 | Healthcare
It took the Food and Drug Administration more than a century to grow into a massive, expensive, wasteful, inflexible, ineffective, distant and indifferent bureaucracy. It now violates a founding principle of the practice of medicine: “First, do no harm.”... by Paul Hsieh MD | Nov 27, 2008 | POLITICS
In the 1990s, politicians wanted to make home ownership as universal as possible. They used laws such as the Community Reinvestment Act to force banks to make unsustainable loans to millions of people. They also expanded quasi-government agencies such as Fannie Mae... by Walter Williams | Nov 26, 2008 | Free Trade, Protectionism & Tariffs, POLITICS
There’s a growing anti-trade sentiment in our country. Much of the dialogue is grossly misinformed. Let’s try to untangle it a bit with a few questions and observations. First, does the U.S. trade with Japan and England? Put another way, is it members of... by Thomas Sowell | Nov 25, 2008 | POLITICS
There is an old Russian fable, with different versions in other countries, about two poor peasants, Ivan and Boris. The only difference between them was that Boris had a goat and Ivan didn’t. One day, Ivan came upon a strange-looking lamp and, when he rubbed it,... by Thomas Sowell | Nov 24, 2008 | POLITICS
Barack Obama says that we have to “jolt” the economy. That certainly makes sense, if you take the media’s account of the economy seriously– but should the media be taken seriously? Amid all the political and media hysteria, national output has... by Craig Biddle | Nov 23, 2008 | POLITICS
The religious tradition of saying grace before meals becomes especially popular around the holidays, when we all are reminded of how fortunate we are to have an abundance of life-sustaining goods and services at our disposal. But there is a grave injustice involved in... by Andy Clarkson | Nov 20, 2008 | POLITICS
In a recent lengthy discussion with a friend who is an Obama supporter, she wanted to focus upon economics. Her view was that top economists had endorsed Obama. Why was that not enough for me to support him? One, I refused to discuss economics. I explained to her that... by Walter Williams | Nov 19, 2008 | POLITICS
Evil acts can be given an aura of moral legitimacy by noble-sounding socialistic expressions such as spreading the wealth, income redistribution or caring for the less fortunate. Let’s think about socialism. Imagine there’s an elderly widow down the street...
