April 10, 2011

Import Brazil's Oil Policy, Not Brazil's Oil

In 1980, Brazil imported 77 percent of its oil. Now it imports 0.0 percent. During that same time period, America increased its oil imports from roughly 30 percent to 70 percent. If Brazil can become completely self-sufficient in oil, why can't Ameri...

March 19, 2011

Americas Home Invaders

If someone broke into your home, would you treat him as an invited guest? Would you allow him to move in his family? Would you pay for their food, medical care, and education?That's what we've been doing with illegal aliens in America.But that's not ...

March 1, 2011

The Vanishing Constitution

The Obama administration plans to continue with implementation of ObamaCare despite recent rulings by two federal district judges that it is unconstitutional, despite lawsuits to block it by more than half of all states, and despite polls showing tha...

February 1, 2011

China's Insight into Human Nature

During President Obama's State of the Union address, he attributed China's rise largely to its education system when he said, "Meanwhile, nations like China and India realized that with some changes of their own, they could compete in this new w...

January 29, 2011

The 'Your Money Is Not Yours' Crowd

Paul Krugman, columnist for the New York Times, recently criticized those who "see taxes and regulation as tyrannical impositions on their liberty" and who believe "that people have a right to keep what they earn."One branch of Am...

December 21, 2010

The Rich Who Laid the Golden Eggs

"The Goose That Laid the Golden Egg," a fable by Aesop, provides a moral lesson about greed.  A couple owned a goose that laid a golden egg every day.  Assuming there must be a big lump of gold inside the goose, the couple killed ...

December 18, 2010

America's Shanghai Surprise

According to new results from a key international assessment, American students are lagging significantly behind their peers from several countries in Europe and Asia.  They are the farthest behind students from the Chinese city of Shanghai, who...

December 5, 2010

The Chinese Ant and the American Grasshopper

"The Ant and the Grasshopper," a fable by Aesop, provides a moral lesson about hard work and saving. During the warm months, the ant works hard to store up food for the winter, while the grasshopper sings and plays. When winter arrives, the...

October 23, 2010

America at Debt's Door: A Primer

The economic center of gravity is shifting from West to East as America faces economic problems and China remains the world's fastest-growing major economy. Do these events signify the eventual end of American predominance?Since embracing market refo...

October 5, 2010

The Erosion of American Higher Education

In America, the cost of higher education has been rising faster than inflation and health care costs for more than two decades. Money Magazine calculated that college tuition rose by 439 percent from 1982-2007.According to Mark C. Taylor, author of C...

September 22, 2010

The Federal Takeover of Education

Federal control over education has been growing since the 1960s despite the fact that the word education does not appear in the Constitution of the United States.Now, as the current administration pushes for national education standards, federal cont...

September 6, 2010

The Schools Scandal

American spending on public education, adjusted for inflation, has more than doubled over the last three decades. What did taxpayers get for their money?The average math and reading scores of American 17-year-olds have not improved since the early 19...

August 21, 2010

National Education Association Selling its Saul

The National Education Association (NEA), the U.S.'s largest labor union, is promoting communism to the millions of American public school teachers it represents. Teachers who are influenced by their union's efforts are more likely to indoctrinate Am...

August 13, 2010

The Fiscal Burden of Educating Children of Illegal Aliens

According to a new report from the Federation for American Immigration Reform, the single largest cost of illegal immigration is educating the children of illegal aliens. Of the estimated $113 billion the U.S. spends on illegal immigration annually, ...

August 3, 2010

'The cornerstone of democracy rests on the foundation of an educated electorate': - Jefferson

The world has been turned upside down: Socialism is on the rise in the U.S. and capitalism is on the rise in China. The former is a result of an uneducated electorate that fails to understand socialism's history of producing poverty; the latter is a ...