Walter Russell Mead: The Once And Future Liberalism
Beyond the dysfunctional ideals of liberalism. Writing about the onset of the Great Depression, John Kenneth Galbraith famously said that the end had come but was not yet in sight. The past was crumbling under their feet, but people could not imagine how the future would play out. Their social imagination had hit a wall. The same thing is happening today ... MORECharles Kadlec: Gingrich And The Gold Standard
Did you know Newt wants to get back to sound money? The biggest under-reported story of the South Carolina primary is winner Newt Gingrich’s campaign promise to convene a gold commission to “look at the whole concept of how do we get back to hard money.” The only job of the Fed should be to “maintain the stability of the dollar because we want a ... MOREJesse Weed: Obama's Social Justice Capitalism
Obama is not just motivated by kickbacks. Unlike the mercy-killing "vulture" capital firms, venture capital firms invest in start-up companies. Take a quick look at a venture capital firm like Atlas Venture Capital and you see a list of firms that are not exactly household names. The sole criterion venture capital firms use to select start-ups for initial financial ... MORESteve McCann: Self-Destruction Of The Mainstream Media
A welcome sight to behold. For the past forty years the mainstream media has become increasingly liberal and more overt in promoting the policies of the Democratic Party. This evolutionary process reached its zenith in 2008 when the media were instrumental in Barack Obama being elected President. Many journalists dropped any pretense of objectivity and ... MOREWilliam Tucker: Environmentalism And The Leisure Class
Keystone Cop Obama protects his environmental flank. This week President Obama handed down what may prove to be one of the most fateful decisions of his entire administration when he rejected the plan to build the Keystone XL Pipeline carrying oil from the tar sands of Canada to the refineries of Houston. The decision did not win him one new ... MORERon Paul: TSA Part Of An "Out-Of-Control" Police State
Candidate calls to abolish liberty-violating agency. Republican Senator Rand Paul was stopped at an airport on Monday for setting off an alarm and refusing a patdown, prompting his father, U.S. presidential candidate Ron Paul, to accuse security officials of being part of an "out of control" police state. In a harshly worded attack on the Transportation Security ... MORE
Walter E Williams: Schools Of Education
Time to get rid of academic slums. Larry Sand's article "No Wonder Johnny (Still) Can't Read" — written for The John William Pope Center for Higher Education Policy, based in Raleigh, N.C. — blames schools of education for the decline in America's education. Education professors drum into students that they should not "drill and kill" or be the "sage on the ... MORESupreme Court Delivers Government Surveillance A Hit
Warrant needed for GPS tracking. We finally have a victor in one of the most talked-about court cases of 2011. The Supreme Court issued its opinion [PDF] Monday in U.S. v. Jones, a case that asked whether the government needs a warrant to slap a GPS tracker on a suspect’s car. The Supreme Court was unanimous in its decision: The government lost. Privacy won. ... MORE
Andrew Foy & Brenton Stransky: 3 Problems With Ron Paul
Ron Paul does not have the smile of Obama, the folksy likability of Romney or the carving wit of Gingrich. In fact, Ron Paul looks (and sounds) nothing like a Washington elitist. In our visual society we too often pick our politicians based on hair line and pearly whites and too seldom on the content of their character or value of their platform. No one who ... MORENeil Snyder: An ObamaCare Warning To Seniors
You might not get that procedure. While I taught at the University of Virginia, I served for a while as associate dean. My dean at the time, Bill Shenkir, used a phrase that I thought was particularly helpful when we were contemplating major decisions: "Let's reduce the fog factor." By that he meant that we should always examine the ramifications of our ... MOREStephen Dinan: Arizona To Investigate Fed Gun-Running Op
Heavy-handed feds get payback from state. Arizona's state legislature will open its own investigation into the Obama administration's disgraced gun-running program, know as "Fast and Furious," the speaker of the state House said Friday. Speaker Andy Tobin created the committee, and charged it with looking at whether the program broke any .... MOREGary North: Victory On SOPA: Lessons Learned
"When we feel the heat, we see the light." - Senator Everett Dirksen. On Wednesday, January 18, the forces of liberty grained a major political victory over the entrenched meddlers in Congress. The owners of a handful of popular Internet sites joined together to protest SOPA/PIPA. They blacked out their sites and provided information on the threat to Internet ... MORE
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