Cato Institute senior fellow Ted Galen Carpenter writes, “If the congressional hawks and their allies in the foreign policy community and the conservative news media have their way, than war with Iran would be inevitable. But as such beaters of war drums contend, this is not a cause for worry, as the resulting conflict would […]
Archives for April 2015
Iran a Nuclear Power?
Former CIA bin Laden Unit chief Michael Scheuer writes, “It is extremely likely that Iran will — as its genuine national interests clearly demand — string out the negotiations with Obama, Kerry and their fellow ahistorical European colleagues until it can surprise the world by testing a nuclear device. In speaking about U.S.-Cuba relations this […]
America Is Not a Democracy
Originally posted June 18, 2013. America Is Not a Democracy. The Word Democracy Does Not Appear in the Constitution or the Declaration of Independence. The Founders Gave Us a Federal Republic. Walter Williams writes, “Nothing in our Constitution suggests that government is a grantor of rights. Instead government is a protector of rights…. It’s Congress […]
Tax Day: Top 20% Pay 80%
As if April 15th wasn’t depressing enough the WSJ reminds us that the top 20% of earners pay 84% of the income tax. The bottom 20% get’s paid by Uncle Sam. Who pays what in income taxes? With April 15 just around the corner, filers may be curious about where they fit into the system […]
The Koran: A Handbook For Terrorists
Originally published September 8, 2014. “Blood drips from its pages,” words from a parliamentary speech by Geert Wilders. Wilders, a populist Dutch politician and head of the country’s Party for Freedom, has campaigned to stop what he views as the Islamisation of the Netherlands and compares the Quran with the Mein Kampf. In his speech, […]
Ethics and the Blind Clinton Trust
Originally posted March 10, 2015. It’s easy to expect the worst from the Clintons, because that’s what you usually get. Kimberley A. Strassel of the WSJ asks, isn’t it about time we drop the fiction that the Clinton Foundation is a charity? From the WSJ, here is a list of just a few countries that […]
Muslims to Equal Christians?
Tamara Audi in the WSJ writes, “The world’s Islamic population is growing so rapidly that by 2050, the number of Muslims will be nearly equal to the number of Christians across the planet—possibly for the first time in history.” In “The Paralysis of Europe,” Pat Buchanan writes, “The differences between a liberal secularized Europe and […]
Islam—a Murderous Religion
In “Under the Black Flag” in the April 2015 issue of Chronicles, Taki Theodoracopulos writes, “Perhaps not each of the 1.6 billion Muslims wishes to punish people in the name of their God, but I’ll bet my last dollar that the great majority does. Regarding Muslims in England: “There’s a relentless agenda to secularize Christian […]
Abolishing the IRS
The Cato Institute’s Richard W. Rahn makes a solid case as to why the IRS should be abolished. Mr. Rahn argues that the present tax system gets failing grades for what it ought to do—“obtain the necessary revenue with the least amount of damage to the economy and the civil liberties of the citizens.” Tax […]
Plotting the 2015 NFL Draft
For decades I have plotted out the annual NFL football draft. And each year I enjoy the challenge of uncovering what I find to be the most useful reference source. This year I have selected leading independent draft analyst Nolan Navwrocki’s NFL Draft 2015 Preview as my #1 reference source. Thanks to Nolan, I have […]
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