Rising U.S. debt and inflation
By Vern Sumnicht
We have been living and investing in a low-inflation environment with falling interest rates for more than 20 years. Currently, all the evidence indicates we are headed for higher inflation and higher interest rates soon. ...
Islamic freedom of religion?
By Joseph Beaudoin
In his Ramadan speech in August to an audience of Muslim leaders, President Barack Obama chose to lecture Americans on freedom of religion. His comments were both insulting to Americans and incongruous. Indeed, Islam demonstrates daily in ...
Liberals support Ground Zero mosque
By Kerry W. and Peggy McCarthy
Liberals usually mask, in service of political expediency, their policy preferences that run counter to mainstream American opinion. Their full-bore support of the location of the Ground Zero mosque reveals an affinity for Islam that, ...
How Obama lost Iraq
By Jeffrey T. Kuhner
"This is worse than a crime, it's a blunder," said French statesman Charles M. de Talleyrand. The statement sums up President Obama's approach to Iraq. In a nationally televised address from the Oval Office on ...
Arab views not altered by appeasement
By Herbert London
In a recent 2010 Arab Public Opinion Poll conducted by Zogby International and the University of Maryland for the Brookings Institution, one can get a glimpse of Arab opinion in the so-called moderate countries of ...
A rude new world
By Gayle S. Fixler
Rude new world or just new rules? On August 9, JetBlue flight attendant Steven Slater slid to fame down an Embraer 190 jet’s emergency evacuation chute clutching an ice-cold bottle of Blue Moon beer in ...
Icing global warming
By Dr. Leigh Broadhurst
On a sweltering September 1, James Lee entered the Silver Spring, MD headquarters of Discovery Communications with a firearm and explosives and took hostages. Unable to negotiate, police eventually shot and killed him. As his ...
Food for thought
By Kelly Kathryn Llobet
The recent salmonella outbreak this August in the egg industry with the assault on salt as a food additive in restaurant cuisine brings into question the appropriate role of government intervention into the lives of ...
