by George Reisman | Mar 2, 2006 | POLITICS
Economic inequality that results from economic freedom is to the material self-interest of everyone. It is the foundation of rising real wages and a rising standard of living.
by Daniel Pipes | Mar 2, 2006 | Middle East & Israel, POLITICS
The bombing on February 22 of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, Iraq, was a tragedy, but it was not an American or a coalition tragedy. The destruction of the Golden Dome, built in 1905 and one of the holiest shrines of Shiite Islam, represents an escalation of the... by Thomas Sowell | Mar 2, 2006 | POLITICS
Government is not the only institution that promises something for nothing. The decline of General Motors is just one consequence of the idea that labor unions can get their members something for nothing. Workers themselves increasingly recognize the reality that... by Walter Williams | Mar 1, 2006 | POLITICS
High up on my list of annoyances are references to the United States as a democracy and the suggestion that Iraq should become a democracy. The word “democracy” appears in neither of our founding documents — the Declaration of Independence nor the... by Thomas Sowell | Mar 1, 2006 | POLITICS
Suppose someone left you an inheritance of a million dollars — with the proviso that every cent of it had to be spent on tickets for you to go watch professional wrestling matches. If you happened to be a professional wrestling fan, you would be in hog heaven.... by Tom DeWeese | Feb 28, 2006 | Technology, United Nations
This then is the real reason the United Nations seeks control of the Internet. It’s particularly interested in gaining access to your personal records.
by Steve Buckstein | Feb 27, 2006 | POLITICS
The Oregon Supreme Court has unanimously upheld the constitutionality of Measure 37, the property rights initiative approved by the voters in 2004. It requires government to either compensate landowners for reductions of real property fair market value due to certain... by Onkar Ghate | Feb 26, 2006 | Environment, Terrorism
The good news: a federal grand jury in Eugene, Oregon, has indicted 11 people on charges that they committed acts of domestic terrorism on behalf of the Earth Liberation Front and the Animal Liberation Front. Moreover, now one of the FBI’s “highest... by Craig Biddle | Feb 25, 2006 | POLITICS
It is widely believed today that our cultural and political alternatives are limited either to the ideas of the secular, relativistic left–or to those of the religious, absolutist right–or to some compromised mixture of the two. In other words, one’s...
