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Politics, News & Issues > Politics, News & Issues (Other) Should the federal government give assistance to American auto makers?: 1 of 16

A video floating around the internet shows a state of the art Brazilian auto plant capable of producing 5 different models of cars so production could instantly be switched to respond to dynamic market conditions. Assembly lines for suppliers integrated into the plant seamlessly insert sub-assemblies into the main assembly l...
Politics, News & Issues > US Elections US elections 2008: Hillary and Barak trade punches: 1 of 13

Democrats are famous for stealing elections, most famously when some Texas counties and Chicago rigged their vote counts to deliver the 1960 election for JFK. In 2000, Al Gore tried to use the courts to overturn the will of the Florida voters, and a circus of court cases tried to write new law to deliver the state for Gore. ...
Politics, News & Issues > Government & Policies Should American farmers continue to receive government subsidies?: 1 of 10

The argument for farm subsidies is they help small, family farmers stay in business. That's a silly argument taxpayers should not subsidize businesses. If a small, family farm can't profit in a free market, the family is better served by the breadwinner entering a business which produces a profit. When that happens, both the...
Politics, News & Issues > Economic News What happens when the Baby Boomers retire: 2 of 12

I hope you have a spare $400,000 laying around because that's your share of the US government debt. The US government is bankrupt to the tune of $58 trillion, and in order to pay off that debt, every household in America would have to pay $400,000 today. Because long-term debt compounds just like interest, the debt increases...
Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Global warming: What's the real truth?: 13 of 61

I haven't enjoyed a comfortable spring like this since I was a kid. This is the kind of spring we loved back in the 70s, when climate change alarmists were warning that the world was plunging into a new ice age. Now, despite having no evidence that man-made CO2 is the cause for the warming of the last 30 years, those same al...
Politics, News & Issues > Economic News The Government, automobile & oil giants: Screwing over Americans: 1 of 4

On July 1, the International Energy Agency reported that speculation had not distorted the price of oil in the short term. I hope they like eating crow. Over the weekend, the price of oil dropped nearly $20 from the record high price set July 11. Gas prices follow oil prices. The only thing that changed is the pressure on Co...
Politics, News & Issues > International Politics (Other) The decline of the US as a world power: 11 of 38

John Stossel's essay titled "The Sky's Not Falling" highlights the hyperbole regarding the subprime mortgage and credit "crises" politicians and talking heads are using to scare the people into giving government more power. But the very problems Stossel points out with ever-growing government threaten to make the sky fall. I...
Politics, News & Issues > Climate Change Reflections on Al Gore's legacy: Visionary or hypocrite?: 3 of 9

The parallels between the medieval Catholic Church and Al Gore's modern religion, the Church of Man-Made Global Warming, get more pronounced every day. Al Gore's Gulfstream private jet surpasses the Pope-mobile for Church business travel, and his Tennessee mansion with heated pool uses more energy than the Sistine Chapel. Al...
Politics, News & Issues > Politics in Europe Is a Cold War between the East and the West on the verge of repeating itself?: 3 of 8

In the tradition of Stalin, Russian President Vladimir Putin has played President Bush and western political elites for useful idiots. In just the latest example, after Bush treated Putin to a fishing trip in Kennebunkport, Maine, Putin returned home and immediately ordered the resumption of long range bomber flights to test...
Politics, News & Issues > War & Peace A look at the Blackwater controversy in Iraq: 6 of 14

If you read the news reports or watched the Congressional show hearings about the private security firm Blackwater USA, you probably think its owner, Erik Prince, is either a demon or a saint, and Blackwater's employees are either courageous heroes or murdering thugs. The truth is complicated, and this polarization tells us ...