by Debi Ghate | Aug 11, 2006 | POLITICS
If termites are weakening a home’s foundation, what do we do? We call the exterminator and eliminate the problem. If armed robbers are at our doors trying to break their way in, what do we do? We defend ourselves to the best of our abilities until the... by Thomas Sowell | Aug 10, 2006 | POLITICS
My late mentor, Nobel Prize-winning economist George Stigler, used to say that it could be very instructive to spend a few hours in a library checking up on studies that had been cited. When I began doing that, I found it not only instructive but disillusioning. A... by Walter Williams | Aug 9, 2006 | POLITICS, Price Controls
There are decent people, without a selfish hidden agenda, who support increases in minimum wages as a means to help low-skilled workers, and there are other decent people, with the identical goal, who strongly oppose increases in the minimum wage. So the question is:... by Thomas Sowell | Aug 8, 2006 | POLITICS
Whenever I hear the phrase “studies prove” this or that, it makes me think back to the beginning of my career as an economist at the Labor Department in Washington. Secretary of Labor Arthur Goldberg was scheduled to appear before Congress to argue in... by George Reisman | Aug 7, 2006 | SCIENCE
Serious scientists are concerned with the pursuit of science, not the politics of science.
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 6, 2006 | POLITICS, Price Controls
It was a common political move when Chicago’s city council voted recently to impose a $10 an hour minimum wage on big-box retailers. There is nothing that politicians like better than handing out benefits to be paid for by someone else. What was uncommon was the... by Dr Michael Hurd | Aug 5, 2006 | Middle East & Israel, POLITICS
Secretary of State Rice has stated that Israel has an “obligation” to respond to the U.N.’s demand for a cease-fire in Lebanon. Since when does any sovereign government have an obligation to reply or have anything at all to do with the U.N.? Keep in... by Our Readers | Aug 4, 2006 | POLITICS
Lebanese Government Has No Legitimacy Dear Editor: President Bush is urging Israel to preserve the fragile government of Lebanon, which was recently chosen in democratic elections supported by Bush himself. But Israel should do exactly the opposite. Hezbollah, the... by Craig Biddle | Aug 2, 2006 | POLITICS
The widespread acceptance of altruism (the fallacious notion that being moral consists in self-sacrificially serving others) causes continuous human suffering and death. Yet another example of this fact is illustrated in a recent article by Dr. Sally Satel (a resident...
