11.08.2011

By Rick Manning — The states of Alaska and Arizona were forged through mining. Arizona’s history of mining goes back one thousand years, and the first rush to populate Alaska was through the Klondike and Nome gold rushes in the 1890s. Now, major mining projects in both states are threatened […]
11.08.2011

By Howard Rich — It’s called the “United States Congress Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction,” and it has until Nov. 23 to propose at least $1.5 trillion in deficit trimming measures over the coming ten years. Assuming it reaches an agreement, its recommendations would […]
11.07.2011

In this wide-ranging interview marking the publication of his new book, The Thomas Sowell Reader, Thomas Sowell, the Rose and Milton Friedman Senior Fellow on Public Policy at the Hoover Institution, discusses, with Hoover research fellow Peter Robinson, his life, Barack Obama, class warfare, Ty […]
11.07.2011

File this under the lighter side of the OWS movement. H/T to Justin Hart for finding this gem ( click here to read the email ) and the following best excerpts that he passed along: “… locating energetic fault lines on the site to find the main vault of potential energy on which […]
11.07.2011

By Bill Wilson — It is with no small irony that Athens and Rome are among the first to fall in a new struggle that has emerged between sovereign governments and a transnational elite that seeks to shift primacy from representative bodies to international financial institutions. The […]
11.07.2011

By Rick Manning — 125,000 jobs created. That’s how many new jobs our economy needs to create each month just to keep up with the normal growth of the population. That’s why President Clinton Labor Secretary Robert Reich termed the October unemployment numbers, “I wish there were light at the […]
11.07.2011

By Adam Bitely — I believe that the dominating characteristic that all politicians share is the urge to use the government as a tool for fixing whatever a majority of Americans determine to be wrong with the country. Politicians live for receiving credit for fixing […]