by Walter Williams | Jun 11, 2008 | POLITICS
Let’s do a thought experiment asking whether Americans are for or against slavery. You might say, “What are you talking about, Williams? We fought a war that cost over 600,000 lives to end slavery!” To get started, we might find a description that...
by Thomas Sowell | Jun 10, 2008 | POLITICS
Now that Senator Barack Obama has become the Democrats’ nominee for President of the United States, to the cheers of the media at home and abroad, he has written a letter to the Secretary of Defense, in a tone as if he is already President, addressing one of his...
by Richard Parker M.D. | Jun 9, 2008 | Healthcare, POLITICS
Senator Ted Kennedy recently underwent an operation to remove a brain tumor at Duke University. Besides Hillary Clinton, no other politician in America has devoted as much of his political career to the enslavement of physicians. The name Ted Kennedy (and Clinton) is...
by Alex Epstein | Jun 5, 2008 | POLITICS
Throughout the housing crisis, we have heard demands from spokesmen for desperate homeowners, banks, and investors for every variety of government bailout. But there is one group from whom the nation has not heard: the millions of Americans who, like me, had nothing...
by Walter Williams | Jun 4, 2008 | Energy
Environmentalists come to their senses when non-drilling philosophy costs them something. It’s two-faced hypocrisy.
by Brian Simpson | Jun 3, 2008 | Environment
Every year the price of gasoline rises as refiners switch over to producing “summer” blends of gasoline and every year virtually everyone blames oil companies for the sky rocketing price. However, virtually everyone is dead wrong. Environmentalists are...
by Thomas Sowell | Jun 2, 2008 | POLITICS
It is amazing how seriously the media are taking Senator Barack Obama’s latest statement about the latest racist rant from the pulpit of the church he has attended for 20 years. But neither that statement nor the apology for his rant by Father Michael Pfleger...
by Alex Epstein | May 28, 2008 | Energy, POLITICS
With gasoline prices exceeding $4 a gallon in some states, politicians are responding as usual: Blame Big Oil First. Several prominent senators have once again summoned industry leaders to Capitol Hill, subjecting them to yet another barrage of rhetorical questions,...
by Walter Williams | May 28, 2008 | Energy, POLITICS
In searching for villains for rising food and oil prices, some commentators have turned to speculators, namely people trading on the Chicago Mercantile Exchange and similar exchanges around the world. A sample of the claims: “Biofuels and droughts can’t...