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... by Peter Schwartz | Mar 28, 2007 | POLITICS
The issue of income inequality reveals one of the ugliest aspects of today’s culture. The ugliness stems not from the existence of income inequality–but from the motives of those who denounce it. Income inequality used to be a rabble-rousing issue of the...
