Gasoline Price-Gouging?

Demanding that your political representatives impose windfall taxes or price controls will guarantee even higher pump prices long into the future.

Justice Thomas Indeed Keeps the Flame Burning

In his fourteen years on the Supreme Court, Justice Clarence Thomas has been a tireless advocate of original intent and has based his decisions on the Constitution's text, history, and timeless principles of natural law. A review of Professor Henry Mark Holzer's Keeper of the Flame.

Just Listen to Our Words, Don't Watch What We Do

Just because a politician says he likes to hunt, or that he owns a firearm, does not mean he has any interest in protecting your right to own the firearms of your choice. A review of Foxes in the Henhouse.

Gripes and Grievances

Burt Prelutsky on Cynthia McKinney, handicapped parking spaces, and the missing link between fish and humans.

Miss Peggy Lee & Co.

Over time Peggy Lee proved herself to be one of the greatest and most original musical talents of the recording era, up there with Tony Bennett and Harry Belafonte, just behind Sinatra and Fitzgerald.

U.S.-Chinese Summit Leaves Strategic Relationship Unexamined

A summit that should have dealt with the vital issue of how the United States can peacefully acknowledge China’s rise as a great power focused instead on narrow trade and proliferation issues and became a farce of administrative snafus.

The Myth of "Price Gouging"

Gas station owners have a right to charge whatever prices they choose.

Chernobyl and Communism’s Revenge

Using “Chernobyl” to justify closing down nuclear power stations is part of the recipe designed to kill the patient.

Anonymous Drive-bys

If the Internet is the new newspaper, the anonymity of the Internet is journalism's version of a drive-by shooting. It is graffiti, not commentary.

Of Oil and Land Prices

The problem with futures speculators is that they have no interest in anything other than buying and selling paper.  How they do this is often a matter of whether they have enough money and influence to control market activity. 

Time To Take A Stand

It's time to start fighting back against the jihadists in our midst, who abuse our freedoms in order to destroy our society.

Misguided Social Responsibility at General Electric

GE has coupled its new "Ecomagination" marketing initiative with a misguided campaign to “safeguard” the planet from “catastrophic” global warming.

Hispanic Leaders Speak Out – Read What They Are Saying

Hispanic activists in their own words.

The War Against US Border Security

US businesses which employ cheap illegal immigrant labor and US Senators who support them have placed "cheap labor" above national security and the real rights of the US citizenry. 

Flight of Fantasy

The media view the premiere of United 93 with trepidation, as they do in reference to almost anything concerning the attacks of September 11, 2001.

Disarming: The UN Legitimization of Iran and Illegitimization of Israel

Electing Iran to the UN Disarmament Commission is like electing Sudan to the UN Human Rights Commission.

Gasoline-Price Dishonesty

Liberal Republicans and Democrats making an economics problem into a political issue won’t change the underlying realities that drive prices higher.

America: Choosing Life?

By every conceivable measure, America is rejecting the pro-abortion movement’s absolutist regime of abortion on demand.

The Last Days of Manliness

Harvey Mansfield's new book is a commemoration of what once was; characteristics like stoicism, independence, and reticence are now construed as signs of not being a team player.  A review of Manliness.

From Baghdad to Budapest (with stops in between)

In the context of confusion, democracy can create through the electoral process conditions that hinder the creation of the political-economic foundations of liberty.

Len Munsil: A Genuine Opportunity for Republicans

Arizonans are increasingly aware of the degree to which they are disregarded by liberal Governor Janet Napolitano. While talking tough on issues, this premier obstructionist now holds the dubious honor of having rejected more bills than any of her predecessors since Arizona's statehood. Fortunately, an accomplished alternative, Len Munsil, is now available to voters.

Arizona Governor Vetoes Illegal Immigration Bill: The Two Faces of Napolitano

When she declared a state of emergency in Arizona last year, Governor Napolitano spent millions on her deployment of National Guard troops on the Mexican border.

Whatever Happened to Limited Government?

Over the last six years our Republican-controlled government has produced the highest levels of government spending in history, soaring deficits, and excessive government regulation that intrudes even further into the lives of regular Americans.

From Bias to Bigotry: CBS News Goes into Free-fall

Whether the issue is abortion, the gender wage gap, or daycare, Katie Couric has always crooned in harmony with the feminist looney-tunes.

An Amigo a Minute

By the time you are finished reading this column, “Three Amigos” will have illegally crossed into the United States.







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