Keeping Your Cool on Global Warming
Q. What are you chuckling at? A. This news story. Apparently satellite photos now confirm that the polar ice caps are shrinking and the planet’s temperature is increasing. As more carbon dioxide is released into the atmosphere, more of the sun’s heat is...For-Profit Schools: Profit’s not a Four-Letter Word
“It’s not ethically sound to make a profit off educating students in a school that serves the public, which a charter school is, using funds from public coffers.” That’s not a sentence from Mao’s Little Red Book. It’s from Philip...Why is “Campaign Finance Reform” Popular–Amongst Politicians?
In its reckless disregard of the Constitution when it passed “campaign finance reform” legislation, the House of Representatives has demonstrated dramatically why we need real political reform. The First Amendment to the Constitution begins “Congress...A Deadly Error
How well is the Bush administration conducting the war on terrorism? Overall, it deserves high grades, having shown an impressive seriousness of purpose, discipline, and vision. It made winning the war the guiding principle of U.S. foreign policy and almost flawlessly...The Media That Couldn’t Shoot Straight: How a Hand Gun Saved Lives
On January 16, 2002, a law student at Virginia’s Appalachian School of Law shot and killed the dean, a professor and another student, while wounding three others. How did the shooting spree end? According to the Los Angeles Times, “Other students tackled...Biotech Comes Down With Enronitis
The biotech sector is sick. The industry that promises to cure cancer and AIDS can’t cure itself. And it’s all so sudden. All last year I thought favorably of biotech as a “defensive growth” sector — a group of high-risk/high-reward...Books: The Failure of The “New Economics” An Analysis of the Keynesian Fallacies by Henry Hazlitt
Hazlitt’s book remains the supreme debunker of the Keynesian system.
