WES VERNON: AMERICA’S LAST FREE ELECTION?
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Ever since George W. Bush won the 2000 election through the Electoral College, liberals have been on a warpath to abolish the Electoral College. You understand, or…...
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
PAUL GOTTFRIED: THE LATE, GREAT JOE SOBRAN
Joseph Sobran: The National Review Years. (Vienna, Virginia: FGF Books, 2012.) ELIZABETHTOWN, PA -- Recently I received the galleys for the anthologized essays and book reviews by the late,…...
Monday, October 08, 2012
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: AN ECONOMIST TAKES A CLOSER LOOK AT THE SO-CALLED DROP IN UNEMPLOYMENT
Last week's employment report from the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) shows 114,000 new jobs in September and a drop in the rate of unemployment from 8.1% to 7.8%. As…...
ALLAN BROWNFELD: CHICAGO TEACHER STRIKE REFLECTED A “PUBLIC-BE-DAMNED” ATTITUDE
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- The Chicago teachers' strike, with almost no warning, canceled classes for 350,000 students who had just returned from summer vacation. It forced tens of thousands of parents…...
Tuesday, September 25, 2012
PAUL CRAIG ROBERTS: THE REAL CAUSES OF THE ATTACK ON THE EMBASSY IN LIBYA, 9-11-2012
BIRMINGHAM, ALABAMA -- Try to imagine more deluded reporting than this by America's Presstitute "free press." For 11 years Washington in pursuit of its rightful hegemony has been sending troops,…...
Monday, September 24, 2012
MARK WEGIERSKI: THE CRISIS IN ART AND CULTURE 11 YEARS AFTER 9/11
TORONTO, ONTARIO, CANADA -- For millennia, art has reflected the values of societies. Have modern values and technology made great art impossible?Massive advances in technology have given us instruments that…...
Monday, September 17, 2012
CHARLES G. MILLS: FEEDING THE PEOPLE
"No refuge could save the hireling and slave from the terror of flight and the gloom of the grave." - Francis Scott Key GLEN COVE, NY - One of…...
ALLAN BROWNFELD: FREEDOM OF CHOICE IN EDUCATION SHOULD BE A KEY ISSUE IN THE PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- American public education is clearly in decline. A recent study by the National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) found that only one-third of American students demonstrated proficiency…...
Thursday, August 23, 2012
ALLAN BROWNFELD: REMEMBERING MILTON FRIEDMAN ON THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY OF HIS BIRTH
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- Milton Friedman, the 1976 winner of the Nobel Prize for economic science and the pre-eminent American advocate of free enterprise, was born on July 31, 1912 --…...
DAVID COKER: NO EXIT STRATEGY FOR THOSE LIVING IN POVERTY
fitzgerald griffin foundationread online, Tweet, email, and/orshare at Facebook athttp://www.fgfbooks.com EVANSVILLE, IN -- When I was growing up, at my grandparent's house there was a floor-to-ceiling pantry at the foot…...
ALLAN BROWNFELD: PRESIDENTIAL CAMPAIGN NEEDS TO BE ABOUT WHAT’S BEST FOR AMERICA, NOT RACE
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- As the presidential campaign gets under way, it is in the interest of all Americans that it be about what is the best path to ensure a…...
Wednesday, August 22, 2012
ALLAN BROWNFIELD: DEPRESSION-ERA FARM SUBSIDIES SHOULD BE TERMINATED
ALEXANDRIA, VA -- Government spending, everyone realizes, is out of control. During President George W. Bush's tenure from 2001 through 2009, the national debt doubled. According to Bruce Riedl of…...
Tuesday, May 29, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: LAWYER AND PRESIDENT
As a young courtroom lawyer, Abraham Lincoln often worried his own clients. Unlike most lawyers, he didn't haggle over every point. He didn't seem combative. He yielded on minor questions…...
Thursday, May 24, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: COERCIVE “RIGHTS”
The U.S. Supreme Court is hearing arguments about "affirmative action," and will probably wind up making the subject more confused than ever, pending confusion worse confounded by a future Court.…...
Friday, May 11, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: THE SOBRAN ADMINISTRATION
In a previous column, I observed that "the presidency is ... a Superman's job. Nobody should be given - or trusted with - that much power and responsibility. Nobody can…...
Tuesday, May 08, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: THE LOST ART OF SPEAKING
Not long ago, I read that Hollywood is worried about a shortage of young male stars who can play big roles. I'm not surprised.And I think I can give the…...
Tuesday, April 24, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: CHURCH, STATE, AND SCHOOL
Which are crazier: liberals or conservatives?The question is forced on us anew by the latest flap over the Pledge of Allegiance. A Federal appeals court in San Francisco (where else?)…...
Saturday, April 21, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: YOUR FRIEND, THE STATE
Albert Jay Nock, an excellent but largely forgotten writer, once wrote a little book titled Our Enemy, the State. I still reread it when I'm groggy from absorption in the…...
Thursday, April 12, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: THE RISE OF TAX SLAVERY
Tax time approaches, and Americans are as always paying H & R Block billions to help them save some of their wealth from their ravenous government. Pitiful, in a way:…...
Thursday, April 05, 2012
CHARLES G. MILLS: WINDMILLS AND WATERWHEELS
GLEN COVE, NY -- Many proponents of "renewable energy" are hypocrites who have no real interest in renewable energy. About the time that the superiority of bronze and iron…...
JOE SOBRAN: DID THE PASSION OF THE CHRIST MOVIE HAVE “EXCESSIVE VIOLENCE”?
Sometimes I think that if people really listened to themselves, I'd be out of a job. When they can't mean what they say, you are entitled to doubt that they're…...
Saturday, March 31, 2012
WES VERNON: ANDREW BREITBART CHRONICLED THE CORRUPTING INFLUENCES IN AMERICAN CULTURE
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- You may have heard the late Andrew Breitbart (1969-2012) was initially alerted to the Democrat/media complex when that collaboration smeared Clarence Thomas as it fought to block…...
Wednesday, March 28, 2012
CHARLES G. MILLS: CONTRACEPTION
GLEN COVE, NY -- Progressives held three closely related superstitions between the two world wars: eugenics, scientific racism, and contraception. Eugenics was the theory that humanity could be improved by…...
Wednesday, March 21, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: THE CURSE OF BEATLEMANIA
A few weeks ago I wrote some mild criticisms of the Beatles and the sky fell. Angry readers called me "ignorant," "vicious," and various other things displaying blindness to my…...
Friday, March 16, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: CELEBRITY AND MORTALITY
Toward the end of his all-too-brief life, the great pop singer and jazz pianist Nat "King" Cole phoned his record company. The switchboard operator answered: "Capitol Records, home of the…...
Thursday, March 15, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: WHAT DO WE OWE THE STATE?
I've had a lot of response to my column on Hans-Hermann Hoppe's new book Democracy - The God That Failed, most of it enthusiastic. A surprising number of citizens of…...
Sunday, March 11, 2012
WES VERNON: THE BIRTH DEARTH AND CONTRACEPTION
"The richer a nation becomes, the fewer its children, and the sooner it begins to die." - Ernest Hemingway WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Many viewers scratched their heads during a Republican…...
Tuesday, March 06, 2012
JON BASIL UTLEY: WAR, SOCIAL VALUES, AND RON PAUL
WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Is supporting war more important for evangelicals than their social values? Isn't Ron Paul a social conservative? He opposes abortion, gay marriage and promiscuous sex, he has…...
Friday, February 24, 2012
JOE SOBRAN: ALL WE LIKE SHEEP - FLEECED BY OUR OWN GOVERNMENT?
Once upon a time, my father bought Time magazine every week, as I do now. He paid 20 cents per issue; I'm paying $3.95. In my teens I bought paperback…...
Friday, February 17, 2012
CHARLES G. MILLS: THE GOLDEN AGE OF PAROCHIAL EDUCATION
GLEN COVE, NY -- The golden age of the American parochial school system (from the end of Reconstruction in 1877 until the end of World War I in 1918) was…...
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