by John Lewis and Paul Saunders | Sep 26, 2008 | Environment
Based on the conclusions of many scientists and the reasons they offer for those conclusions, there is no basis for assuming the truth of an imminent global climate catastrophe caused by human action.
by Lisa VanDamme | Sep 26, 2008 | Education
These children are not treated like human calculators, they are treated like thinking beings. And when they truly grasp the concepts they are using, when they can explain them fully and articulately, when they retain them because they are not memorizing, but understanding–that is real math magic.
by John Lewis and Paul Saunders | Sep 25, 2008 | POLITICS
This is the third in a seven part series detailing our objections to plans by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to claim unlimited power over the life of every American. Those plans were laid out in an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR),... by John Lewis and Paul Saunders | Sep 24, 2008 | POLITICS
This is the second in a seven part series detailing our objections to plans by the United States Environmental Protection Agency to claim unlimited power over the life of every American. Those plans were laid out in an Advance Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (ANPR),... by Walter Williams | Sep 24, 2008 | POLITICS
There is a H.L. Mencken quotation that captures the essence of this year’s politics: “The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed, and hence clamorous to be led to safety, by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of... by Jim Johnston | Sep 24, 2008 | Money & Banking
Congress, the Treasury, the Securities and Exchange Commission, and the Federal Reserve are hell-bent to bail out the housing and financial industries and then regulate them into rigor mortis. All this with no judicial review and a bill for taxpayers on the order of... by John Lewis and Paul Saunders | Sep 23, 2008 | Environment, POLITICS
This article details how the EPA intends to claim unlimited power over the life of every American.
by Thomas Sowell | Sep 23, 2008 | POLITICS
Estimates of how much money a government program will cost are notoriously unreliable. Estimates of the cost of the current bailout in the financial markets run into the hundreds of billions of dollars, and some say it may reach or exceed a trillion. Many people have... by Thomas A. Bowden | Sep 23, 2008 | Regulation
The Katrina tragedy and the more recent experience of Hurricane Ike should call into question the so-called safety net composed of government policies that actually encourage people to embrace risks they would otherwise shun–to build in defiance of historically obvious dangers, secure in the knowledge that innocent others will be forced to share the costs when the worst happens.