by Ronald Bailey. Dinosaurs were cold-blooded. Increased K-12 spending and lower pupil/teacher ratios boost public school student outcomes. Most of the DNA in the human genome is junk. Saccharin causes cancer and a high fiber diet prevents it. Stars cannot be bigger than 150 solar masses. In the past half-century, all of the foregoing facts ... MORE
Cowardly CEOs throw capitalism over fiscal cliff. The fiscal cliff is exposing some brassy hypocrisy on Wall Street. Eager to score points with the White House, one CEO after another is throwing capitalism over the edge. Remarks by leading captains of industry over the past few weeks have sounded alarmingly anti-market. Some of these ... MORE
by Neil Snyder. It's 2:00 a.m. You are at home in your bed sound asleep. Your wife is sleeping beside you, and your children are asleep in their rooms down the hall. The muffled sound of a window breaking interrupts your slumber. You're groggy and you wonder if it was just a dream, so you lie there quietly and listen. A few seconds later, you hear other ... MORE
U.S. being pushed toward a police state. President Barack Obama has been following the path of attacking civil liberties and pushing the U.S. towards totalitarianism, says Randy Short, a member of Dignity, Human Rights and Peace organization in Baltimore. “The cybersecurity bill that President Obama seems to want to pass without submitting ... MORE
The drive for guilt over happiness. “We Could End Homelessness With The Money Americans Spend On Christmas Decorations,” announces a headline from Think Progress blogger Adam Peck. So far as we can tell, Americans haven’t exactly been taking to the
streets demanding that people trade Christmas ornaments for welfare
programs, ... MORE
Armed citizens a bulwark against state power. Liberals have declared war on gun rights. Following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School
in Newtown, Conn., gun-control zealots have seized on the murder of 20
children and 6 adults to push their longtime goal of rolling back the
Second Amendment. The bodies of the victims ... MORE