The New York Times is facing hard times. Readership has been falling since 1990 and the trend shows no signs of reversing. The paper’s motto is “All the News That’s Fit to Print”, but is more accurately described as “”All the News That Fits the Leftist Agenda.” A study of media bias by the University [...]
Americans, as a group, are having trouble with weight. Many of us are wearing a few extra pounds, and even the rising cost of food under the Obama administration’s economic policies is not reversing this trend. It may be surprising, however, to learn that food stamp recipients are fatter than ordinary Americans. A study by [...]
I’m told that the best thing about beating your head against the wall is how good it feels when you stop. Our national bi-partisan War On Drugs is a lot like that. The war on drugs has reduced respect for the rule of law. As Montesquieu wrote two hundred years ago, Useless laws weaken the [...]
The tea party movement has grown so strong so rapidly that even the leftist mass media have covered some of the events. Of course, they see men and women standing up for their Constitutional rights as dangerous extremists whose very existence threatens the socialist paradise which the new communist movement is building for Americans. One [...]
Tax competition is a term you are going to be hearing a lot in the next few years. Low taxes create growth and prosperity; high taxes strangle it. Governments that take a larger share of their nations wealth cause businesses to fail, citizens to become unemployed, and economics to shrink. Governments that take a smaller [...]
The American border is indefensible and until we recognize and accept this fact we will continue to waste precious resources attempting to accomplish an impossible goal. I am not speaking here only of our Southern border, but also our Western and Eastern sea borders and our Northern border with Canada. Our Southern border is 1,969 [...]
