I'll be honest. I don't place much hope in the new Congress. But here's what I'm looking for and what makes me potentially hopeful for the future: The replacement of milquetoast Republicans with ones who actually stand for something different that isn't religious...
First Lady Michelle Obama is encouraging Americans to feed their children a diet with fewer sweets to help combat obesity. On her reality show, "Sarah Palin’s Alaska," Palin, while she put together the ingredients for s’mores, said, "This is in honor of...
While temporarily buried under the Christmas cheer and holiday mood, Reuters recently published a story concerning the growing turmoil on the Korean peninsula. On top of threats to wage a "sacred war" against the South, Pyongyang hints at the possibility of a third...
Q: A lot of my friends and I are nearing retirement or seeking new horizons. When we talk about new careers or jobs, we all come to the same conclusion: "I'm not qualified for the jobs I'm interested in, and I'm not interested in the jobs I'm jobs I'm qualified...
Economist Peter Schiff writes: "How has the [housing] market found the strength to stop its descent? No one is making the case that fundamentals have improved. Instead, there is widespread agreement that government intervention stopped the free fall. The home...
Advocates of the new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty (START) want America to reduce its nuclear capabilities in exchange for Russia 's word that it will do likewise. Does this make sense? Russia, throughout its history, has been an authoritarian if not...
Fox News reported: "As New York City finishes cleaning up the mess of the recent debilitating blizzard, it also faces allegations that union workers entrusted with cleaning up the mess of snow decided to stage a slowdown as the blizzard hit. The plan was to snarl the...
Here we go again. This week, Paul Krugman, the 2008 Nobel Prize winner in economics and the go-to guy for progressives who need a morale boost, launched another misguided attack on Austrian School economists. From his New York Times soapbox, he referred to the...
ObamaCare could never have passed — and would never have been proposed — were it not for the evasiveness of voters combined with the evasiveness of politicians.
In case you haven't heard, Obama's FCC has passed new rules requiring private companies who provide Internet services to submit to control under the government. What will government's rules be? Those are yet to be determined. But the government alone will decide what...
Do not let the Bush tax cuts fool you, it was an anomaly in an administration filled with big government statist policies. Regulations, redistribution of wealth, the Obama presidency, and a whole host of collectivist policies are what Pres. Bush’s real economic legacy is all about.
I copied down what some clown on TV said about our debt to China: "Someone in Beijing is laughing as the U.S. goes deeper into debt to pay for the tax cut." Where to begin? Well, the following is basically the order in which I hurriedly wrote down my comments when I...
Politics often supersedes medical science as the determining factor behind the Food and Drug Administration's granting or denying of approval of prescription drugs. This is the result of a long-term trend that has come sharply into focus with the FDA's handling of the...
The U.S. Senate is considering ending, or at least reducing the strength of, the filibuster. The filibuster allows the minority in the Senate to prevent the majority from passing a bad bill, through delay or other tactics. Who wants to get rid of the filibuster?...
Are gays openly serving in the military a good thing, or a bad thing, for the military? It depends on who you ask. Some military officials are quoted as saying it will make no difference. Others are quoted as saying the opposite. Some polls of military members says it...
What is "group think"? It's the opposite of individuality. Individuality resides in the independent use of your mind. "Independent" means objective, which means you independently use a rational method of thinking about people, situations and events. Rational does not...
Federal Judge Henry E. Hudson ruled Monday in favor of Virginia's claim that the requirement for people to purchase health care exceeds the power of Congress under the Constitution's Commerce Clause or under the General Welfare Clause. "It is not the effect on...
The writers of the U.S. Constitution were very much aware of the need to set firm and specific limits on the powers of government. Hundreds of years of the British Monarchy, and study of the failures of republican forms of government as far back as ancient Greece and...
Many people argue that the Troubled Asset Relief Program (known as TARP) is an example of government intervention in the economy being necessary. If government hadn't intervened, the argument goes, the economy wouldn't have stabilized and our severe recession would...
And so it begins. Michael Copps, of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), has suggested a "public value test" to determine who should, and should not, hold licenses for television and radio. Read this as: Shut down Fox News. But there's a much bigger and...
?Today former President Bill Clinton held an impromptu press conference in order to support the tax-cut deal that Obama reached with some Republicans. The mainstream media is already speculating that the circumstances of the conference, the demeanor of Obama and...
In a recent defense of what he calls "fair trade," Barack Obama stated that one major purpose of trade agreements is to ensure that American products are made at home -- not bought from other countries. No such thing is true. The purpose of any trade agreement should...
"Liberty and license are not the same thing." I hear this all the time. My response is, "Oh, really?" As I see it, liberty and license are the same thing. Liberty is the license to do whatever your own mind tells you makes sense to do. Likewise, liberty is the license...
?I keep hearing people who oppose "tax cuts for the rich" complaining that we're "giving" money to these rich people. This is a dishonest distortion of epic proportions. It's the distortion that makes our whole wretched welfare-regulatory state possible. The person...
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