Columns

• Pearl Harbor as a Noble Lie
  Soon after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, rumors began to circulate challenging the official narrative [...]
• Destroying the Economy
  We are told the unemployment rate is working its way down to 8%. The real unemployment rate is [...]
• Green Losers
  Are you ready for the complete disappearance of the Arctic ice cap this summer?   That’s what NASA climate scientist Jay [...]
• Baby ordered off plane: JetBlue’s or TSA’s fault?
  An 18-month-old baby girl had cleared security at the Ft. Lauderdale Airport and, along with her parents, had already boarded [...]
• Shutting Down Christianity One Commandment at a Time
  Liberal disdain for all things Christian, and the desire to remove all vestiges of Christianity from public view [...]
• Presidents’ Mothers: Are they the secret of success?
  “All I am or ever hope to be I owe to my angel mother, God bless her.” – Abraham Lincoln There [...]
• Wind Energy: the wheels are coming off the gravy train
  The wind energy industry has been having a hard time. The taxpayer funding that has kept it alive for the [...]
• Free our kids from Arne Duncan
  President Barack Obama now commands center stage following his formal announcement that, yes, he supports same sex marriage. But for perspective [...]
• Parental Law and Our Right to Raise Our Children
  Our government was founded to protect individual rights including the right to raise children. Government has usurped those rights; its [...]
• Beneath the EPA push to stop Pebble Mine
  There’s little doubt the Environmental Protection Agency is sabotaging Alaska’s Pebble Mine — not to save Bristol Bay [...]
• Escape from America: Why our most prolific taxpayers are getting out of Dodge!
  Why are over 200,000 rich, former American residents, living in London? Why do they make the UK one of the [...]
• America Lost in a Bubble
  No matter how this mad dash to nowhere is spun one thing is certain: all bubbles burst All bubbles burst.  This [...]
• Women of the Welfare State
  I just hope the Obamis are as stupid as we conservatives imagine.  Because it would be too bad if the [...]
• Obama Seeks Gay Vote
  What’s the answer to the question? Whatever benefits the liberal most at the moment. When President Obama was still Presidential Candidate Obama, [...]
• Europe’s Failed ‘Austerity’
  In the wake of French and Greek elections last weekend, the backlash against European austerity is now in full swing. [...]
• America First Personal Income Tax Plan
  The personal tax rates in our current 75,000 page tax system must be reduced while we develop a permanent new [...]
• Papers? We Don’t Need No Stinking [Federalist] Papers!
  One of my most contentious contentions is that if you want to learn about the Constitution, taking constitutional law [...]
• DeMint: Government Shouldn’t Tilt the Field for Anyone
  When people ask me if I’m pro-business or pro-labor, I say I’m neither: I’m pro-freedom. Freedom is the only political principle [...]
• Is the TSA worth saving?
  If you’re upset by the TSA’s clumsy efforts to protect us from airborne terrorists — and let’s face it, [...]
• The Path to the Republican National (Un)Convention
  According to the national media, the presumptive nominee for the Republican Party, Governor Mitt Romney, has between 832 and 865 [...]
• Climate change and the presidential campaign
  Global warming has been off the energy-news radar as high gas prices have usurped the spotlight—however Defense Secretary Leon Panetta [...]
• Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget is a moral budget
  Rep. Paul Ryan, R-Wis., chairman of the House Budget Committee, provoked some angry pushback when he claimed that not [...]
• Strange bedfellows urge EPA to improperly stop Pebble Mine
  Robin Hayes, chairman of North Carolina’s Republican Party, painted a target last month on Alaska’s proposed Pebble Mine. In an [...]
• When Will Enough Be Enough?
  When will citizens rise in their righteous anger and demand not a New Deal, not a Great Society, a [...]
• Ron Paul: How Many Delegates Now?
  Speculation about the size of the Ron Paul presence at the Republican National Convention in Tampa this August has some [...]
• It’s Official: Global Warming is Heating Mars (and we didn’t do it)
  Former Vice President Al Gore, Jr. became a billionaire by fanning [...]
• Re: Comments on Capital Gains
  I have read the comments regarding my article on the Buffet Rule and I am disappointed that I did not [...]
• Justice for the Homeless Abandoned Naked Bombed-Out Orphans
  Natural law is a law of justice, which means every action always has a reaction and we always get what [...]
• Student loan deadbeats should be sent to debtor’s prison?
  If we can solve the Student Loan Crisis, it will go a long way to solving the Housing Crisis? Young [...]
• Because Angels Don’t Govern Us
  Now that the first round of spin has passed, we can take a second look at the lessons to [...]
• They Own It All
  Bishop Daniel R. Jenky of the Catholic Diocese of Peoria, Illinois was cast into the national spotlight briefly after he [...]
• Green Loser of the Week
  It might have to be a group award for all the wind power wind bags, for lo—it turns out [...]
• It’s not Al’s fault
  Frequent readers of my column might be surprised to see that I am defending Al Armendariz, the newly resigned EPA [...]
• Louisiana Shocker: Ron Paul Wins
  Well, the cat is out of the bag.  Saturday’s district conventions in Louisiana gave the Ron Paul campaign 74% [...]
• Occupier Gangs and Unions To Terrorize America on May 1
  The biggest holiday in the old Soviet Unions was May 1, “May Day”.  It was a celebration of the worker—actually, [...]
• How to keep the poor poor
  Media personality Tavis Smiley and Princeton philosophy professor Cornell West have just published their latest contribution to American [...]
• Big Green pushes for EPA power grab to stop Pebble Mine
  Last week, as four major environmental groups in Washington were endorsing President Obama’s re-election, eco-bosses from the Natural [...]
• Scientists reveal Romney and Obama are actually clones
  One of the recent Rasmussen Polls has Ron Paul beating President Barack Obama in a head to head contest. [...]
• 2012: The Art of Intimidation
  What a joy it was to watch the Romney campaign executing on the Hilary Rosen flap, launching Ann [...]
• Political Extortion of America
  One of these days Americans will either realize the treachery of the parties, or fail to make the hard decision [...]
• A Thought Experiment On You-Know-Who
  So Obama, no doubt partly to shore up his weakness with Jewish voters, made a perfunctory appearance at the [...]
• TSA goon squads at the bus station: police state, here we come
  Paul Joseph Watson writes for Prison Planet that Big Sis has started a program with the TSA and [...]
• Romney – Ron Paul in brutal battle!
  The war over delegates at the district level last weekend descended into a brutal battle,  more like a scene [...]
• Obamacare and Unlimited Government
  The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, or “Obamacare,” has undergone oral arguments before the Supreme Court, and its constitutionality [...]
• Environmentalism: less about hugging trees, more about bringing America to her knees
  Despite his speechmaking touting an “all of the above” energy strategy, President Obama’s reelection could depend his willingness to stand [...]
• Ron Paul Wins in Iowa and Minnesota, Romney in a Panic
  Ron Paul supporters surged to victory in Saturday’s Minnesota and Iowa district conventions, dominating the process and picking up [...]
• Obama’s real Hilary Rosen problem
  Spokespeople and pundits stick their foot in it all the time. But rarely do we see public relations heavy [...]
• Big Green beach bullies strangling Cape Hatteras families
  Defenders of Wildlife and the National Audubon Society are choking off the lifeblood of communities that depend on [...]
• Ron Paul Pandemic causes Romney split
  There is a split at the senior levels of the Mitt Romney campaign over how to deal with the [...]
• Who Benefits from the War on Drugs?
  We understand that this topic is quite controversial; thus, we would love your feedback. Please leave a comment below, or [...]
• Mr. President, It’s All of the Above
  Even MSNBC reckons that the president had a bad week.  The bad-hair week, according to Chuck Todd, included the “tax-fairness [...]
• The Reasonableness of Routine Strip Searches
  The United States Supreme Court has ruled in a 5-to-4 decision that jail guards may strip-search individuals arrested for minor [...]
• RRR: Reduce Corporate Taxes to 8 Per Cent
  Many Democrats do not seem willing to admit that John F. Kennedy was a tax cutter. Kennedy was pro-American and [...]
• This Week’s ClimateFail News
  Another bad week for the climateers. Of course, you could write this headline every week for the last five [...]
• A Review of Charles Goyette’s Red and Blue and Broke All Over: Restoring America’s Free Economy
  The United States of America in 2012 exhibits the characteristics of a nation in terminal decline.  Her capital city is [...]
• Ron Paul to Obama and Romney: “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel”
  Ron Paul to Obama and Romney: “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.  Get over it.” News is now leaking out about [...]
• America’s oil melting pot could shrink the trade deficit and boost the declining dollar—without new taxes
  With gas prices continuing to climb, there is an ever-increasing quest for ways to find a culprit that [...]
• A Tea Party Comeback?
  Three years ago the Tea Party was protesting taxes, government spending and regulations. Less than two years ago Washington, D.C. [...]
• Liberal Left War on Women and Motherhood Reveals Itself Through Hilary Rosen
  Individualism is dangerous to authoritarian ideologies like American Liberalism, Communism, Socialism, Fascism, and the list goes on. [...]
• Obama makes foul call for economic ‘fairness’
  You have got to give credit where credit is due. President Barack Obama has laid out the core message of his [...]
• Keeping score of mounting global green failures
  Benny Peiser’s academic resume notes that he’s a social anthropologist whose research focuses on “the effects of environmental [...]
• The Heart of the Problem is in the Heart
  Benjamin Franklin told us, “Only a virtuous people are capable of freedom. As nations become corrupt and vicious, they have [...]
• Allow Credit Unions to Compete With Banks—Support H.R. 1418 by Royce
  Republicans and conservatives of all stripes can agree on a few things. One of the most significant is Government has [...]
• Individualism as an American Tradition
  In revisiting the words of our twenty-second and twenty-fourth president Grover Cleveland, I am reminded of the virtues of individualism. [...]
• An Introduction to RRR: A unique plan for economic recovery and job creation.
  As a conservative Democrat, I have gotten accustomed to saying things my Party does not like to hear. Quite frankly, [...]
• Christian Teacher Fired for Unwed Pregnancy, Loses Health Care
  The liberal left is foaming at the mouth. They’ve got us now, they are supposing. After all, the [...]
• Evangelicals turn to Ron Paul
  In the wake of Senator Rick Santorum’s departure from the presidential race there are signs that some evangelical leaders [...]
• America’s Collision with Economic Reality
  The United States is headed toward a financial brick wall. Although the country has been on this collision [...]
• The Day the Supreme Court Laughed at Liberalism
  One of the historical judgments about the Supreme Court striking down many of FDR’s early New Deal measures—especially the [...]
• Showdown in St. Charles, Missouri
  Ron Paul rides again. Remember the infamous St. Charles County Republican caucus on March 17, 2012?  (See videos below.) Where [...]
• The mystery on the cliff: Whose fingerprints are on granny’s wheelchair?
  Our country is steep in debt, going further in debt, and the government is digging the hole deeper each and [...]
• The Environmental Protection Agency’s Arrogant, Abusive Authority
  Did the Obama administration overstep its authority with its landmark healthcare legislation? During the three-day review, Justice Anthony Kennedy created [...]
• Statists Need Division
  Statism, American liberalism, communism, socialism, fascism, or any other authoritarian ism you can think of, is not popular [...]
• An interview with Jesse Benton: It’s not over
  Talk to me about the Ron Paul campaign, the national media says it’s over. Is the delegate strategy [...]
• Republican challenge with blacks and Hispanics
  National Journal’s Ron Brownstein provided an eye-opening reminder in a recent column about the impact of changing ethnic demographics [...]
• How many incumbents voted themselves a pay raise this year?
  President Obama bashed Mitt Romney by name this week, in a sign that the presidential race is finally in [...]
• Supreme Contempt
  Recently President Obama made this remarkable statement, “Ultimately, I’m confident that the Supreme Court will not take what would be [...]
• Romney Will Pick Huckabee As VP
  If Mitt Romney does win the GOP nomination, who will he pick as Vice President? He will float [...]
• The Great Pretender: Thou Shalt Not Covet What God Does Not Intend You To Have
  While Rick Santorum campaigns for Democratic union votes in one more [...]
• Obama, Health Care, and the Nine Supreme Court Justices
  “The truth is, that, even with the most secure tenure of office, during good behavior, the danger is [...]
• Conservatives And the Courts
  Who says bipartisanship is dead? Left and Right have finally found something that they agree on. They are both [...]
• The Prospects for Sound Money
  A silver lining of the global economic crisis is that millions of people have been awakened to the [...]
• The Science of Half-Baked Ideas
  The more we learn about climate science, the more we learn what a shabby, back-of-the-envelope business it is.  [...]
• Life under an Obama with “more flexibility”—use less, pay more
  President Obama made headlines during his visit to Seoul, South Korea—though not for his public policy statements, rather for his [...]
• Rowing the Raft Away from Destruction
  “Man, once surrendering his reason, has no remaining guard against absurdities the most monstrous, and like a ship [...]
• Progressive Monetary Policy and the Hate The Rich Ploy
  The liberal left acts like they hate the wealthy, so they play this game where their goal is to [...]
• Romney gets nasty in Nevada but Ron Paul prevails
  For Ron Paul supporters there is good news coming out of Nevada but the price paid to win these [...]
• Government is the problem
  What are the ramifications if the Supreme Court finds the individual mandate provision of the healthcare reform law unconstitutional? [...]
• Obama’s Executive Order & (Inter)National Defense
  Just over two weeks ago, President Obama signed an executive order that provides him and future presidents the power to [...]
• Media’s Commentary On Obamacare Case Does Not Matter
  The oral arguments in the Supreme Court of the United States are finally finished regarding the Health Care Law. It [...]
• EPA’s regulatory shell-game harms Americans’ jobs, health
  Last week, Sen. John Barrasso, R-Wyo., lobbed two anti-baloney missiles into the armored underbelly of President Obama’s Environmental Protection Agency. [...]
• A spy’s report from inside the Romney campaign
  How the Romney Campaign is using the fear of Ron Paul to defeat Rick Santorum This fascinating, but anonymous report, [...]
• American Elect: Not Independent—a Part of Democrat Party
  Americans Elect claims to be a new political model—not Republican or Democrat. They are going to have a candidate [...]
• The Ronulans are among us: How Ron Paul’s delegate strategy is actually working
  On they come, marginalized by the media and ridiculed by the Republican establishment. Their votes are often rejected at [...]
• Bank Runs and Youth Runs
  After we learned our lesson in the Great Depression it looked like the era of the bank run was [...]
• GOP leader claims: Romney-Santorum-Gingrich unite to stop Ron Paul
  Well, well, conspiracies do exist after all.  Thanks to the proliferation of cell phones you will hear Alex Hayes, [...]
• An Update on the Georgia Caucus Scandal
  For the original story see “Corruption in Georgia” Here is an updated analysis from Frankie Brown A list of rules that we [...]
• Obama’s fake “fossil fuel infatuation tour”
  President Obama must really be feeling the heat of high gas prices. He is on the defense. For the past three [...]
• School Bans Best Friends To Protect Children’s Feelings
  In Merry Ol’ England the drive to not offend, or allow anybody to suffer the horrible consequence of hurt feelings, [...]
• ‘Obamacare’ undermines core U.S. principles
  As the Supreme Court starts its three-day marathon Monday to hear arguments on the constitutionality of the health care [...]
• We Know the Problem … What’s the Answer?
  This weekly column, which I have been privileged to submit for your consideration for the past three years, elicits many [...]
• National Forest document stirs scandal with road removal plans
  When Wayne Allard saw the new U.S. Forest Service guidebook for managing off-highway vehicle trails, he was astounded. [...]
• Occupier Gang Terrorists Close Bank on UC Davis Campus—No One Fired
  Criminals are running rampant on the UC Davis campus.  A few weeks ago the Occupier Gang terrorists started a riot [...]
• Demolishing Due Process
  It is ironic but perhaps sadly appropriate that Attorney General Eric Holder would choose a law school, Northwestern University, [...]
• Stimulus funds use “smart” technology for surveillance of American citizens–now that’s “stupid”
  With gas prices climbing, so is the popularity of fuel-efficient cars. AltTransport.com, a site “dedicated to giving you the latest [...]
• The GOP and the Upscale Vote
  Good news!  The upscale vote is moving towards Mitt Romney, according to Michael Barone.  Says he: One constant factor in [...]
• Impeach: Save America from the Social Progressives
  When you’re a social progressive, and you can’t enact the laws [...]
• Republican race is just getting started
  After Rick Santorum’s victories in Tuesday’s Alabama and Mississippi primaries, Mitt Romney told Fox News, “We’re not going to [...]
• A new champion for property rights movement
  What should be done about wetlands that aren’t wet and navigable waters that aren’t navigable? These improbable conditions have become key [...]
• Praetorian Progressives and Their Imperial Dreams
  Under President Obama we doubled-down in Afghanistan?  We sent more of our fellow citizens to a long hard slog in [...]
• How the environmentalists do it
  Third part of a three-part series of excerpts from Energy Freedom. The environmental movement has used “green schemes”—campaigns that changed [...]
• Corruption in Georgia
  When Barack Obama gets re-elected and the media asks how and why it happened we can look to corrupt [...]
• Who are the environmentalist extremists?
  Second of a three-part series of excerpts from Energy Freedom. So who are all these evil-appearing “environmentalists?” Should all Birkenstock [...]
• Sen. Rand Paul Is A New Property Rights Champion – Let’s Help Him!
  Earlier today I received an email from my friend Ron Arnold of the Center for the Defense of Free Enterprise; [...]
• Freedom vs. the Secular Seminary
  Little did I know, when contrasting conservative freedom and liberal liberation, that a poster-girl for liberation was presenting [...]
• Big Green wants to repeal the Industrial Revolution
  First of a three-part series of excerpts from Energy Freedom Environmentalists would have everyone believe that oil, gas, and coal—all [...]
• Hitting the Ceiling
  If you liked last year’s battle over raising the debt ceiling, just get ready for the fight to come. Last summer’s [...]
• An energy cost misdirection: look here, don’t look there
  We are all squawking about high gasoline prices, but there is an energy misdirection going on. Sabre rattling by Iran has [...]
• None Dare Call It …
  In 1777 the British thought they had finally hit upon a strategy to crush the rebellion.  They would divide the [...]
• Obama’s NOAA probed for booze cruises bought with official fines
  Greenpeace activist Casson Trenor has disrupted the huge Boston Seafood Show for the past two years, but, if [...]
• Contraception flap ‘defines deviancy down’
  In 1993, then Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan published a paper in which he coined the phrase “defining deviancy down.” He was [...]
• Real Rebels and the Counter Revolution
  Think of America’s Founders.  These were real rebels. Sam Adams agitated against the imposition of taxes.  He penned the petitions which [...]
• America’s Verdict on Obama
  When Jonah Goldberg wrote Liberal Fascism back in 2008, liberals blew it off; they weren’t interested in engaging its arguments. [...]
• Ron Paul beats Obama
  Last Tuesday night Mitt Romney won the Arizona and Michigan primaries and once more “electability” was the issue. Almost [...]
• Andrew Breitbart’s final message to the left
  If you think about it, Andrew Breitbart’s untimely passing from this life, at age 43, might be seen as [...]
• A big victory for restoring private property rights
  Property rights advocates across the country are cheering for the U.S. House of Representatives, which unanimously passed the [...]
• Culture Wars: Conservative Freedom vs. Liberal Liberation
  The recent skirmish over compelling Catholic organizations to offer contraception and abortifacient services to their employees reminds us [...]
• City of Los Angeles Pretends to Allow Illegal Aliens to Keep Cars
  For the past two weeks, arguably the two most corrupt law enforcement officials in the nation, LA County Sheriff Lee [...]
• Virtue, Like Liberty, Does Not Come From Government
  Does the U.S. Constitution or Declaration of Independence or any other Founding Era document advise the federal government to promote [...]
• We’re Already Europe
  With seemingly every day bringing more bad news from Europe, many are beginning to ask how much longer the [...]
• The Great Hudsonville Cover up
  Ron Paul supporters are used to getting shortchanged. For example, there are the debates. In one debate, [...]
• Obama energy policy cripples justice for Native Americans
  President Obama’s heavy-handed energy regulations and Big Green’s egregious legal delays have crippled the ability of tribal leaders to [...]
• Conservative support for Santorum will grow despite attacks
  New Gallup polling shows the clearest picture yet of the great divide in the Republican Party that has been [...]
• Manmade climate change advocates are behaving like cornered rats
  Public confidence in scientific “consensus” regarding the theory of manmade climate change is threatening the believing scientists’ confidence. While polls [...]
• ObamaCare Versus Individual Freedom
  President Obama’s new mandate requiring all employers to purchase insurance coverage for their employees that includes abortion-inducing drugs, [...]
• Black History Month: Not Just For Condescension Anymore
  The shortest month of the year, Black History Month, is almost over. Sappy tributes, self-righteous celebrations of perseverance over days [...]
• President Obama’s fake fossil fuel infatuation
  President Obama’s crush on oil and gas was short lived. On January 24, he angered his green base when, in his [...]
• Liberals’ recent victories fuel Santorum surge
  A succession of high-profile left-wing decisions and initiatives in recent weeks drive home the extent to which the left [...]
• The political war of off-highway vehicle enthusiasts
  You might not have noticed it but there’s been a shift recently in ads for off-highway vehicles: The stereotypical trail [...]
• 4 Easy Ways Conservatives Can Revive American Exceptionalism
  People who adopt American values are more noble than those under other traditions and ideologies so say the believers in [...]
• The Man Who Would Be King
  In 114 BC, Rome was a democratic Republic.  Representatives elected by popular vote filled the Senate, and the Senate ran [...]
• The Genius of Sheldon Adelson:
  The more he gives to Newt Gingrich, the more powerful he becomes. First the word was that Sheldon Adelson had met [...]
• Job#1: Take Back America,Win the White House in November
  Most have taken two positions on the Presidential race. One, they are support Newt, Mitt, Ron or Rick (some are supporting [...]
• The penalties of feel-good energy policies
  Because of the unproven notion that burning fossil fuels causes global warming, saving energy has become the cultural norm with [...]
• The Sun is Setting (Tell Everyone You Know)
  If we say nothing while watching someone walk off a cliff and plunge to her death we would be criminally [...]
• Alaska Natives ask EPA to stop threatening their economy
  Abe Williams and Lisa Reimers of Nuna Resources, an Alaska Native consortium, flew to Washington this week to see Environmental [...]
• Matt Drudge’s War
  “A standing military force, with an overgrown Executive will not long be safe companions to liberty.  The means [...]
• Memo to Romney: Whole nation is on government plantation
  Here’s free advice for Mitt Romney. Before bringing up the poor again, read my book, “Uncle Sam’s Plantation.” Romney has been taking [...]
• Washington ignores key free enterprise issues
  Free market and private property advocates and activists are bemused by the current crop of hostile measures coming out [...]
• President Obama’s Civilian Soldiers
  Everybody is outraged and disgusted by our divisive politics, from Jewish bubbies in Florida to AT’s own Rick Moran.  [...]
• TheTeaParty.net supports a Gingrich Presidency
  On Monday, in an attempt to court Ron Paul supporters, TheTeaParty.net proposed an idea on its Facebook page: This proposition was [...]
• Obama avoids Drug question in Google+ Hangout
  On Monday, President Obama participated in a Google+ video forum where he responded to questions from potential voters that were [...]
• Pat Buchanan & The MSNBC Gulag
  Pat Buchanan did something dreadful.  He said politically incorrect things…incendiary, in fact and faces punishment in a New [...]
• California Destruction Continues
  The California Air Resources Board has determined that by 2025—thirteen years from now—15% of the cars on the road will [...]
• Aborting Reason
  The left’s logical case for abortion rights had officially collapsed.  We can thank CNN’s Piers Morgan for administering [...]
• Obama’s vision puts America last
  The theme that President Barack Obama gave to his State of the Union address was “An America Built to Last.” But [...]
• The Volt: what happens when ideology gets ahead of reality
  Mr. President, you are building the wrong car. In a May 2007 speech before the Detroit Economic Club, Candidate Obama chastised [...]
• Now is the Time!
  Sarah Palin was just about to drag the Progressive John McCain over the finish line.  Then the economy collapsed and [...]
• Newt Gingrich is Shameless
  When the Democrats surfaced George W. Bush’s 1976 DUI the week before the 2000 presidential election, it nearly tipped the [...]
• Obama kills Keystone while defending energy record
  Within 24 hours of rejecting the Keystone XL pipeline project—angering unions, industry, and Republicans, President Obama released his first campaign [...]
• Tea Party Failure? Not So Fast
  When it comes to leaders in Washington, D.C. who really seem to “get it,” who really seem to [...]
• Court ruling on ultrasound law worth celebrating
  The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals gave good reason for celebration for the hundreds of thousands who [...]
• Rep. Paul votes against Raising Debt Ceiling, calls for Repeal of Sec. 1021 of NDAA: Jan 18
  Though busy with the GOP presidential race, Representative Ron Paul has not shirked any responsibilities relating to his role as [...]
• Hope across the state line—the human story of hydrofracing
  “To me, the smoke coming out of those stacks is the most beautiful sight in the world. It means there [...]
• NAACP Plantation Masters Play Race Card Again
  Rick Santorum must be “racist” because he thinks all people, regardless of ethnicity, should have the dignity of self [...]
• Waking in Utopia
  The American people need to wake up. While they slept their way through the 20th century like [...]
• Ron Paul and the Media’s Double Standards
  Now that Ron Paul has achieved electoral respectability in the Republican primaries, the media is in high dudgeon over his extremism. [...]
• Obama’s Freeloader Economy
  If you want to understand the deep political philosophy underneath the Obama administration’s random-walk economic policy, it is [...]
• Mitt, we have a problem
  Dear Mitt, Congratulations on winning the Iowa Caucus! I know you have worked long and hard for the Republican Presidential Nomination. On [...]
• Exclusive Interview With Ron Paul: We can win.
  On the eve of two critical debates and the vital New Hampshire Primary, Ron Paul takes time to chat [...]
• Obama’s Sterilized Society
  Chalk one up to President Obama.  He’s got a 2-month extension of payroll tax cuts in the teeth [...]
• “Liberal History” from Osawatomie Bam
  It is still a couple of months until Groundhog Day but in Kansas, Osawatomie Bam recently popped up to [...]
• Another Gospel
  A Pew Research Center national survey found that nearly one-in-five Americans (18%) believe President Obama is a Muslim and 43% [...]
• Energy Makes Christmas Great
  In November, I boarded a flight, heading to a speaking engagement later in the day. The flight attendant commented on [...]
• The Corruption of America
  This article was written by Porter Stansberry The numbers tell us America is in decline… if not outright collapse. I say [...]
• Ron Paul now leads in Iowa
  Get ready. The national news media is going to have an apoplectic, emotional fit when Ron Paul does [...]
• Why is Europe hell-bent on climate change interventions?
  The Economist Magazine has historically been a supporter of climate-change interventions such as cap and trade and carbon-emission reductions. Yet, [...]
• Executive Orders
  The problem with social engineering is that the engineers don’t know how to drive the train.  More like a complicated [...]
• California Recovery as Real as Bernie Madoff’s Investment
  Here is the status of California: November revenues were 10% lower than they were a year [...]
• Big Green’s endangered species money machine
  Karen Budd-Falen is a fifth-generation rancher in Wyoming. She’s also a strong-minded lawyer who tracks millions in legal [...]
• Another Look for Huntsman
  Despite the supposed inevitability of Mitt Romney, many conservatives are clearly still looking for an alternative for the [...]
• Applied Hayek: Why Sound Economics, Like Political Philosophy, Begins with Socratic Ignorance
  Hard to believe, but my fall course for the Ashbrook Center at Ashland University on the political economy of a [...]
• Mitt Romney’s $10,000 bet
  Mitt Romney went into last Saturday night’s debate with a number of things on his mind. Yes, he [...]
• Global Warming: has China had a change of heart or just a change of strategy?
  Following the failure in Copenhagen and Cancun, no one expected much from the UN’s seventeenth year of climate talks that [...]
• Ron Paul On Israel: “Let My People Go”
  A short interview with the candidate. What should our relationship be with Israel? We should be their friend and their trading partner. [...]
• Putting the Paste Back in the Tube
  We all know that trying the same thing over and over expecting different results is a popular definition of insanity.  [...]
• Noted historian sparks a congressional shouting match
  Douglas Brinkley, best-selling author and celebrity history professor, let his allegiance to Big Green get the best of [...]
• How Billionaires Abuse California Families
  In 1978 we were told that if we passed Prop. 13 police and fire departments would be closed, along with [...]
• President Obama’s Top 10 Constitutional Violations
  One of the biggest political changes that 2011 brought — in large part due to the tea parties and [...]
• Presidential Thanksgiving Message’s Pernicious Premise
    In the first Thanksgiving address given by an American president, George Washington encouraged his fellow citizens in 1789 to [...]
• Public pressure is a gift to economic growth
  For years the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has been used to block development and economic growth. But on [...]
• Occupy: History Repeats as Reality Show
  Marx famously wrote that history repeats itself, first as tragedy, then as farce.  He was pointing out the [...]
• Obama owes Caroline Kennedy Big Time
  Forget the $16 trillion national debt. Forget what we owe China. The greatest unpaid debt of Barack [...]
• Will 2012 be the year of the tax increase ballot measure?
  In the past seven years California racked up $165 billion worth of deficits under the amateur Arnold.  In the first [...]
• Public policy and regulatory decisions driving up electricity rates
  Electricity rates now depend more on public policy and regulatory decisions than on actual costs. Based on a newly released report [...]
• Montana outdoors group is actually a stealth Democratic attack dog
  Montana Hunters and Anglers appears to be defending against an overreaching federal “land grab” bill now before Congress. [...]
• How Rupert Murdoch and Roger Ailes changed the world
  “Talent is hitting a target that no one else can hit. Genius is hitting a target that no one [...]
• The Great Recession is now the Great Restructuring
  It’s no longer just the Great Recession. Now the experts are talking about the “Great Restructuring” of the [...]
• Pipeline delay gives Obama a fundraising Bonanza
  A week has passed since President Obama made his shocking announcement delaying the Keystone XL pipeline decision until after the [...]
• Doug Wead: Ron Paul can Win the Presidency
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• Illegals are trashing America’s border areas
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• Follow the Money
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• Beyond Constitutionality of Obamacare
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• How Can The American People Ever Trust Congress Again After Learning Of The Rampant Insider Trading That Has Been Going On?
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• Prozac for Everyone or Repeal Entire Tax Code
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• When a politician makes a sexual faux pas …
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• It’s official: Rick Perry to replace Eddie Murphy as host of the Oscars
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• Applied Hayek: AFL-CIO Edition
  Chapter 18 of The Constitution of Liberty is on “Labor Unions and Employment,” which will be considered in my [...]
• De-Christianizing Dr. King
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• It’s all about energy, cost, and international competition
  We are in an economic war—and it is bigger than Republicans and Democrats battling over tax increases and spending cuts. [...]
• It’s the Freeloading, Stupid
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• The Real “1 Percent”
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• Get ‘Back to Work,’ ignore Bill Clinton
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• Just a few ways the E-PARASITE Act could dismantle the Internet
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• Salazar’s new order contradicts his 2010 order
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• I Spent Last Weekend Visiting America
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• Supreme Court Ruling On GPS Use By Police: George Orwell Rising
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• Bernanke Fails to Take Responsibility for Dismal Outlook
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• Doctor’s Lie and Smokers Die
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• Road to the Middle Class part II: Down in South Carolina and Out in Brooklyn
  [In the] higher Christian churches… they saunter through the liturgy like Mohawks along a string of scaffolding who have long [...]
• Foreign Criminals, Illegal Aliens, Protected by Law Enforcement — People Die
  Here are two stories from the November 1, 2011 edition of the Washington Times: Illegal immigrant pleads guilty in killing of [...]
• Applied Hayek: Update Edition
  A good friend and frequent collaborator wrote in a few days ago to suggest that my Hayek post a couple [...]
• Permitting access to domestic resources creates jobs
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• Obama’s War on Greed
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• From 7 Billion To 500 Million – The Sick Population Control Agenda Of The Global Elite
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• The Frankenstein monster of environmental laws
  It was a “dream law” designed to save “charismatic megafauna,” as witty environmentalists first called it. And indeed who could idly [...]
• Three Big Problems
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• ‘Idolatry of the Market’?
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• Joe Biden: There Will Be A Huge Increase In Murders And Rapes If The Federal Government Doesn’t Spend More Money To Help The Economy
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• Equally Poorer
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• Obama Slush Funds and Scandals Are NOT Shocking
  How are your Federal taxes being spent by Barack Obama and his slush fund administration (you provide the slush fund [...]
• Applied Hayek: OWS Envy Edition
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• Why resort to shenanigans and corruption to make green energy a reality?
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• The Road to the Middle Class: After the Welfare State
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• Green energy, high prices, and political manipulation
  Three years ago, a winner was chosen to make Rhode Island the nation’s first state with an offshore wind farm. Republican [...]
• General Electric Profits & Government Bailouts
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• Romney’s Mistake
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• The George Soros Connection to ‘Occupy Wall Street’
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• The Economy, Obama, and Occupy Wall Street
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• When the Race Card Gets Trumped
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• The Occupiers (Sponges) are Wannabee Thieves of Your Money
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• Trickle down policy
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• Ron Paul and the occupy Wall Street protest
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• Government, Business, and Religion
  In the lefty documentary The Corporation the usual suspects on the left excoriate business for its soulless attention to [...]
• How the media lies about Ron Paul
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• The Enemy Downtown: Prosecutor Buries Evidence, Man Spends 25 Years in Prison
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• Espionage: Federal Reserve to “continuously monitor conversations” across the internet
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• Occupy Wall Street vs. Jobs
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• Applied Hayek: The Nation Magazine Edition
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• Obama pushes legislation permitting cellphone Robo-calls for Federal Debts
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• Smash Capitalism, Liberate the Planet
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• Similarities: Wall Street Occupiers and the Tea Party
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• Obama Ethics: Safer to Be a Golden-Winged Warbler than a Baby Human
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• “Progressives” are really Totalitarians with a Nicer Sounding Name
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• The Fascist Threat
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• Herman Cain Flip Flops on Killing Al Awlaki
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• Social Animals in the Age of Instrumental Reason
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• The Fed Twists, The Market Shouts
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• Applied Hayek: Socialism vs. “Socialism”
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• Herman Cain’s 9-9-9 Plan
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• Rushing headlong over the cliff
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• What Are Democrats Thinking?
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• Obama’s ‘save my job’ bill versus real jobs bills
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• The Fed’s Twist is Putting “The Squeeze on the Banks”
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• Favoritism at Work: EPA Regulation Exemptions Begin
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• What Will Happen When the People Realize that the Constitution Is No More?
  What can we expect when a majority of Americans finally comes to terms with a disgusting reality that H.L. [...]
• A battle of David and Goliath proportions
  In the last few weeks a battle has been going on behind the scenes involving the sites who publish my [...]
• 130 years of Ludwig von Mises
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• Hollywood puts Obama on a Thousand Dollar Bank Note
  As some of you may know, Fox recently premiered its new Jurassic Park-ish sci-fi program Terra Nova. Considering the fact that [...]
• Handicapped Kids…Better Off Dead
  For those of us committed to the fight of saving Western Civilization from collapse, stories like the one that recently [...]
• At Least Perry Has an Excuse
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• 1/2 Ozt of Gold Membership Fee to France’s Accounting Department
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• Ruling Class Alchemy
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• Monopoly Money and Federal Reserve Notes side by side — you won’t believe it
  Someone at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing has a sick sense of humor… and the joke’s on you. [...]
• Senior Citizens Get Angry Before Obama and Democrats Kill Health Care, Pensions and the Economy
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• President Obama’s jobs plan—silly or sinister?
  We all know that each president has his own unique pet projects. He talks about them in the campaign, and [...]
• Pushing Social Agendas Will Not Defeat Obama in 2012
  Reactions to my article, “Conservatism that Assures the Unthinkable: the Reelection of Barack Obama,” continue to roll in. [...]
• Still Spreading the Wealth
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• Angry federal judge rips ‘false testimony’ of federal scientists
  A tough federal judge in Sacramento has become a folk hero of Central California citizens for protecting people and [...]
• Invisible Hand vs. Clenched Fist
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• Community Organizer Will Destroy the Nation
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• The Conspiracy Against Ron Paul
  I have never been much of a conspiracy theorist. My experience in the White House leads me to [...]
• GOP Letter is soft on Bernanke and the Fed
  The Federal Reserve — the private, non-government entity that prints our dollars and had its start in 1913 — has [...]
• Immigration measure is a sneaky national ID
  Draft legislation to fight illegal immigration is being excoriated by critics as a sneaky way to introduce a national [...]
• Our “Circumlocution” President
  Back in the dawn of the modern era, in the middle of the 19th century, Charles Dickens nailed modern government [...]
• Conservatism that Assures the Unthinkable: the Reelection of Barack Obama
  It is time that someone said, straight up and out loud, “Enough.” As America flirts with permanent economic decline, certain GOP [...]
• DC Brand Red Tape results in severe economic and social impacts
  Communities all over the country feel that their hands are tied with one-size-fits-all DC Brand Red Tape. The [...]
• Jon Huntsman’s Secret Plot to Win in 2012
  The conventional wisdom is that Jon Huntsman, former governor of Utah and presidential candidate, is being played by his [...]
• Ron Paul overwhelmingly takes the Los Angeles GOP Straw Poll
  When Ron Paul addressed his audience at CPAC earlier this year, he opened saying “I’m glad to see the revolution [...]
• Californians are fighting a big war over a little fish
  “California’s Central Valley was devastated in 2009 and 2010 by the deliberate cutoff and diversion of 200 billion [...]
• The American Dream: Sick But Not Dead
  The American Dream of the past eighty years has been defined as single-family home ownership. Suburbs and single-family [...]
• The Liberal Bigotry Problem
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• Did feminist groups derail the stimulus bill?
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• Rebirth of the Caliphate
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• How to avoid being taken captive by our best and brightest
  In early September 2004, two government scientists peered through the bubble windows of a Twin Otter whale-monitoring aircraft, [...]
• When Liberals are the Oppressors
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• Think Globally, Act Locally (work for Legislative Candidates)
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• Obama’s Newest Worst Idea Ever—Fannie II
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• Grow jobs, repeal the minimum wage
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• Healthcare from the Trenches
  I recently talked with a physician from south New Jersey.  He thoughtfully enlightened me on a couple of healthcare [...]
• Big Sister in the Workplace
  Today there are twice as many women in the American workforce as there were four decades ago, three [...]
• Does a President’s Faith Matter?
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• 9/11 and the War on Terror
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• How Washington pays Big Green to sue the government
  Two insistent senators have found that even the Government Accountability Office can’t get at all of the millions of [...]
• Bachmann, God, and the Press
  In June of 2008, Presidential Candidate Barack Obama delivered a speech in Minnesota in which he said, “…I [...]
• America’s Arrogant President
  President Obama has spent close to 900 days without a budget going to the Senate.  He does not mind nor [...]
• Unintended consequences of EPA’s regulatory zeal
  With concern over a slowing U.S. economy and 13.9 million unemployed, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is promulgating new [...]
• Manipulating Money Supply Is Like Lying about Cholesterol
  Would you lend money to a friend if you thought that there was a good chance that you’d not get [...]
• Yes, It Is a Ponzi Scheme
  Texas governor Rick Perry is being criticized for calling Social Security a “Ponzi scheme.” Even Mitt Romney is [...]
• Obama & Transportation Spending
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• Race Mob Violence and Obama
  Now that it has happened, the wonder is that it didn’t happen sooner. I am talking about the [...]
• You Need ID in D.C. to Get Sandbags for Irene, But No ID to Vote?
  Government is irrational–which is more important–honesty in the voting booth or a misgiven sandbag in the middle of a hurricane? Consider [...]
• Irene brings the importance of energy to light
  “Coal is making us sick. Oil is making us sick.” So said Senator Harry Reid. As the entire East Coast [...]
• American Manifesto Part X: The Greater Separation of Powers
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• Greens, government target Mainers
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• Obama, Illegal Aliens and Jobs
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• That which we call ethanol subsidies, by any other name, would still stink
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• Remember ‘No New Taxes’?
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• American Manifesto Part IX: The Real Meaning of Society
  Humans are social animals; we live in groups. Living in groups, humans idealize group living. We envision the [...]
• Win the Meme War or Lose the Culture—Part II
  This article was written in response to the feedback received from Rogér’s “Did American Military Overinvolvement Hasten Europe’s Cultural Decay?” [...]
• Win the Meme War or Lose the Culture—Part I
  This article was written in response to the feedback received from Rogér’s “Did American Military Overinvolvement Hasten Europe’s Cultural Decay?” [...]
• The California Depression Defined
  Some question why I continue to use the phrase, “California is in a Depression”? Here are some of the numbers you [...]
• American Manifesto Part VIII: The Curse of Compulsion
  You are walking one afternoon with a liberal friend and the conversation turns to adult education. What a [...]
• Obama’s clean energy agenda meets reality
  President Obama’s “clean energy” agenda is rapidly becoming a political liability. Last week, the president delivered an upbeat speech in [...]
• Congressional Cowardice Sustains Ethanol Subsidies
  At this moment, $6 billion in annual federal subsidies continue to be paid to American farmers to grow corn [...]
• A Bad Week for Obama’s Policies
  “It’s only fair. That’s the principle I’ll be fighting for during the next phase of this process.” President Obama, August [...]
• Taxpayers and Tax Spenders
  Let’s examine a stunning facet of human nature: When people get something free, they want more of that something [...]
• Is ‘End the Fed’ the newest platform for GOP?
  Is the Federal Reserve Bank and its chairman Benjamin Bernanke the GOP’s newest target? It sure seems so, at least [...]
• Conservatism and the Old Right: a personal view
  I am, what is considered, a member of the “Old Right.” The right wing of Sen. Robert Taft, and [...]
• Did American Military Overinvolvement Hasten Europe’s Cultural Decay?
  It has always seemed to me that the argument for American military intervention in other nations rests on shaky ground. Contending [...]
• Government Regulatory Process: Filled with Secrecy, Speculation, and Contradiction
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• Decades of Big Government Sickening the American Mind
  The mind is a terrible thing. And it must be stopped. At a minimum, thoughts occurring in the minds of many [...]
• ProPublica is the left’s biggest muckraker you never heard of
  An obscure nonprofit investigative newsroom’s editor in chief is paid $585,117 a year and the group gives away its [...]
• Phony Dropout Rates Released by California “Professional” Educators
  Atlanta government schools have found that for the past ten years the teachers and principals, in at least 41 schools, [...]
• Big Government’s Big Spending Has Boosted Inflation and Killed 3.5 Million Jobs
  Rising prices are no surprise to anyone who has been following the actions of Ben Bernanke’s Fed. Two rounds [...]
• American Manifesto Part VII: Springtime for Freeloaders
  The big problem for all social animals is freeloading. In any social group, in which individuals cooperate and by [...]
• American Manifesto Part VI: All of the Above
  If you think of society as a combination of different social spheres, including the political, the economic, and the [...]
• The Civil Way to Call Someone a Terrorist
  During their breaking news coverage in the shocking and confusing moments immediately following the tragic Arizona shooting that took the [...]
• The credit downgrade: a speed bump on the road to ruin
  On Friday, America’s credit rating was downgraded from AAA to AA+. For the first time since ratings began, America is, [...]
• Why Bother? Let It Fall
  America is fading, and the ruling class lacks the courage to stop it. Courage was more abundant in 1776 when a [...]
• Education Dep’t Tells Kids: All You Need Is Global Warmism, So Give Peace a Chance
  Ideologues in our federal government are pushing falsehoods on children in order to spread the doctrine of the Church of [...]
• The Dirty Little Secret of Economics
  Never mind about the debt ceiling. Here’s a more important question for you. How come after 235 years [...]
• Is the American Lung Association EPA’s chief lobbyist?
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• Social Justice From Father Charles Coughlin to Barack Obama
  Is Barack Obama the modern day Father Charles Coughlin? The key phrase of the American Left, the Bill Ayres wing of [...]
• The Jig is about up
  Q: How did this get into the President’s speech celebrating the debt ceiling compromise? “It’s not about rolling back regulations [...]
• Short Sellers: Destroying the Market 101
  When Herbert Hoover took his oath of office as President of the United States on March 4, 1929, the die [...]
• Stop the Atheists at Ground Zero
  It was one of the most iconic images that emerged from the smoke and rubble of Ground Zero in New [...]
• The Real Deal of the ‘Debt Deal’
  Congressional leaders and Obama came to terms Sunday with a deal that offers $917 Billion in cuts over the next [...]
• Progressives and Their Taxes Kill Cities
  High taxes are bad for cities.  Low taxes encourage growth.  In fact, between 1980 and 2007, compared to [...]
• Alarmists should be alarmed
  For most of the last decade, alarmists have rung the global warming bell. Back in 2006, when Al Gore’s movie, [...]
• Food Totalitarians on Parade – Part Deux
  Well that didn’t take long. Yesterday, in a post discussing a New York Times op-ed that called for heavy taxation [...]
• Some lessons Washington could learn from London commentators
  Americans arriving in London often remark that the headlines look like news from another planet, not another country. They see alien [...]
• “Citizens” Redistricting Commission Exposes Itself as Corrupt and Bigoted
  George Wallace lives in the heart of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission. “Two members of the California Citizens Redistricting Commission broke [...]
• Food Totalitarians on Parade
  Within the last few years, we have been treated to attempts by government to control our food intake with [...]
• Increase Revenues, don’t Raise Taxes to fix the Debt Crisis
  Admittedly, we, as a country, need to get past this debt-ceiling crisis and, consequently, it has consumed the news cycle. [...]
• The Meaning of the Debt Crisis
  The complexities of money and credit in the economy often serve to obscure the simplicities of the market economy. [...]
• Libertarianism Is the Antidote for ‘Public Policy’ on Poverty
  By exaggerating the severity of poverty in America, progressives attempt to justify higher levels of wealth redistribution. By [...]
• Liberals launch Christian Witch Trials
  Break out the pitchforks and light the torches!  The leftist media is in the midst of launching a modern day [...]
• Are new environmental laws and regulations worth the gamble?
  The local utility company had just released their report outlining how they’d met the state’s Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS), passed [...]
• Obama’s Deceit on the Debt Default Deadline
  Knowingly stating a falsehood constitutes lying. Unintentionally misrepresenting reality displays a careless lack of knowledge. Our President appears [...]
• Obama and the Coming Democalypse
  President Obama is evidently feeling the pressure from the current shenanigans over a routine hike in the debt ceiling.  But [...]
• Light bulb wars and Big Green’s dim bulbs
  By now, most of us know that the Republican-controlled House of Representatives passed a measure last week to [...]
• The California Depression Will Deepen: State to Borrow $5 Billion More
  California is deep into a Depression. We have real unemployment of over 20%, our deficits are over $20 billion [...]
• The ‘Gimme Mine’ mentality and the American Spirit
  No emotionally stable person viscerally likes inequality. Within both conservatives and liberals lives a strong distaste for what [...]
• Way-Early Obama Endorsement Puts NEA’s Left-Wing Zealotry on Grand Display
  America is a year away from learning the identity of the Republican who will face Barack Obama in November [...]
• Robert Reich: Still Smokin’ — but Probably Right about the Debt Battle Outcome
  Robert Reich has gotten into the funny stuff again. In the Wall Street Journal, the former denizen of the [...]
• Neo-Marxist Warmers go Harold Camping on us
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• Big Green Pharaohs want more bricks, no straw
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• Thanks legislators, higher energy bills are on the way
  The price of everything is going up and much of the increase can be traced back to energy costs. With [...]
• Where Obamanomics Went Wrong
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• STEVE FRANK: Laugh at Silly Government Regulations
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• American Manifesto Part V: The Bonds of Faith
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• Independence Day is a conservative holiday
  Much has been made of the recently released Harvard University study that revealed the celebration of the 4th of July [...]
• MARITA NOON: In Anti-Spending Climate, DOE Gives $4.5 Billion in Taxpayer Backed Guarantees to Solar Manufacturer
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• SANDY RIOS: What’s The Fascination With Casey Anthony?
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• RON ARNOLD: The Oil Pipelines that can rescue Big Green
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• Manipulation as policy: how Obama’s transformational coalition plays ‘We the People’ for suckers
  Originally released on November 11, 2009. Shortly before the 2008 presidential election, Senator Barack Obama said that “when you spread the [...]
• STEVE FRANK: The Games Played in Sacramento
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• RON ARNOLD: A huge political storm is stirring over farm dust
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• American Manifesto Part IV: Business and the Web of Trust
  I recently bought at my local supermarket some Pinata apples. Even though I’d never heard of them [...]
• Rick Perry: Drawing the Lines Clearly
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• STEVE FRANK: Sacramento Gone Wild, Want Salary for Phony Budget
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• Five arguments against gay marriage: Society must brace for corrosive change
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• Big Green rolls off its logs
  Taegan Goddard’s Political Dictionary tells us that logrolling isn’t just the exciting lumberjack athletic contest that looks [...]
• American Manifesto Part III: Government and the Technology of Power
  “There is such a thing as society. It s just not the same thing as the state.” – David Cameroni If [...]
• Obama’s America in Black & White
  Platitudes about the civic utopia that would spring forth from the election of Barack Obama have vanished. [...]
• Socialism Doesn’t Work—Never Has, Never Will
  Historical facts rarely make a dent in the bulwarks of prejudice, ideology and pomposity surrounding the elites in [...]
• Let Unions Strike and Workers Allowed to Work
  The union representing grocery workers in Southern California has decided that unless the grocery stores give them what they [...]
• American Manifesto Part II: Beyond Mere Blame
  If we want to understand who to blame for the current cock-up in government, it is easy. The educated elitists, [...]
• The Dept. of Education SWAT Team
  First, before we look at this bizarre and very troubling story that has already gone viral on the Internet, we [...]
• Put jobs and the economy first
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