Ghosts of 1929
By Joseph Beaudoin
President Barack Obama is ignoring the causes of the economic crisis. He is looking for solutions in the Keynesian economic myth that government interventions got America out of the Great Depression. Yet, the foundation of ...
Rush’s big lie
By Dr. Grace Vuoto
At this year’s meeting of the Conservative Political Action Conference in Washington, D.C.—the largest annual gathering of the nation’s conservatives—there was much disappointment and despair among the rank and file. The speeches from the likes ...
The convictions of a conservative
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
I received the shocking news in September of last year: My best friend was diagnosed with terminal cancer. He was dead within two months. It was a harsh blow, coming on the heels of the ...
Did Bush lie?
By Herbert London
For at least five years there has been one consistent cri de coeur in the liberal community: “Bush lied.” Presumably he justified the invasion of Iraq by suggesting Saddam Hussein was attempting to acquire nuclear ...
For conservatives, the end of the beginning?
By Kerry W. McCarthy
After a long string of defeats, the British won the second battle of El Alamein in 1942. It was a turning-point in World War II. British Prime Minister Winston Churchill immortalized the occasion by giving ...
Israel’s turn to the right
By Frederick Krantz
Israel’s recent election clearly indicated a marked rightward shift in the electorate, and a corresponding decline in the traditional left-wing parties. This has reinforced the secular right-leaning Likud and Yisrael Beitenu (Israel Our Home) parties, ...
Castro’s island prison
By Jonathan Kelly
Raul Castro, comrade in despotism to brother Fidel, recently marked the one-year anniversary of his official rule over Cuba since longtime leader Fidel stepped aside. The many political dissidents of Cuba would decline to celebrate ...
Putin is swindling the West
By Andrei Piontkovsky
At the recent Annual Meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland there was an unexpected guest: Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin. Everybody knows that Mr. Putin never went to Davos. So what induced ...
‘Revolutionary Road’ glamorizes abortion
By Loredana Vuoto
Hollywood continues to champion abortion, assaulting traditional family values and the inviolable right to life. In “Revolutionary Road,” the long-awaited movie reuniting Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio, a young married couple struggles with suburban life ...
Fire the bad teachers
By Michael J. Petrilli
The American education system’s many weaknesses are legendary, but one of its hallmark strengths has gone unnoticed until now. It’s great at employing people. Not necessarily employing them productively, mind you, or recruiting them effectively ...
The folly of comparative effectiveness reviews
By Robert M. Goldberg
Comparative effectiveness—which is supposedly the “science” of comparing two treatments for the same illness and determining which one provides the best outcome for the least amount of money—is something that at least on the surface ...
