March 8, 2015

The Economics of the War against Jihad

Remember the Tehran hostages, Terry Anderson, Beirut, the Achille Lauro, the Berlin disco bombing, Lockerbie, the World Trade Center bombing, Khobar Towers, the Kenya and Tanzania attacks, the USS Cole, 9/11, Shanksville, Karachi, Riyadh, Amman, Alge...

December 10, 2014

Taking a Breath on Police Racism

Charges of racism against police are difficult but not impossible to quantify.  Instead of focusing on the intentions of white police officers in justifiable homicides toward blacks, let’s turn the table and look at black police behavior i...

November 22, 2014

'Compassionate' immigration?

President Obama looked Americans straight in the eye last night and said that legalizing the illegal was “compassionate.”  Let’s take a look beyond the short-term political rhetoric and see how his “compassionate” v...

November 1, 2014

APUSH in the Wrong Direction

The new Advanced Placement United States History curriculum (APUSH) is currently under debate. The College Board has assured the public that the changes only enhance the course. Let’s take a look at the course outline for APUSH to see if public conce...

October 9, 2014

Hell-bent on Rewriting America's past

There has been a lot of consternation that Common Core and new Advanced Placement United States History (APUSH) standards eviscerate the understanding of our exceptional history. Most concerning is the anti-historical emphasis on social justice, glob...

September 9, 2014

Teachers, T-shirts, and Tattoos

It’s back to school, where the little monsters will be whipped into productive members of society by disciplined, professional, and self-respecting teachers. There is just one problem: some “hip” educators responsible for molding yo...

May 23, 2014

The Ugly Truth behind the Florida Core Standards Test

The jig is up on education bureaucrats in Florida. It’s not bad enough that taxpayers have been bombarded with television commercials in a pathetic attempt to sell “Common Core,” or manipulated with the condescending semantics of ch...

March 29, 2014

The Decline of the African-American family

Race in America is set against the backdrop of horrible historic realities, minefields few want to cross -- just ask Representative Paul Ryan. But if we are ever to focus on children who, for no fault of their own, are often raised in environments wh...

March 9, 2014

Changing the SAT for 'Social Justice'

Question: What test was created to eliminate the advantages that wealthy families used to influence and advance their children’s educational cause? Answer: The Scholastic Achievement Test (SAT): a test created to end the discrimination and a...

January 31, 2014

The So-called Rich

To all the politicians, talking heads and ivory tower intelligentsia who wax poetic about income inequality, incessantly attack the wealthy, and believe you know what's best for others, answer this simple question: is this "rich?" A family of three: ...

January 20, 2014

Beating the Income Inequality Drum

Over the next two years the drumbeat of income inequality will be repeated more times than Iron Butterfly's "In A Gadda Da Vida." The political aim will be to sway the American voter into believing two things: income inequality in America is immoral,...

December 7, 2013

The Housing Collapse and ObamaCare

In economics, incentives are everything. Take the housing collapse for example. When home values plummeted, a massive number of owners who were in over their heads with home loans they could not afford, simply walked away from their obligations and s...

November 16, 2013

ObamaCare, Central Planning, and the Truth

Liberals on ObamaCare: "You want answers?" Americans: "I think I'm entitled to them." Congratulations liberal central planners; your ultimate goal of having government take over the healthcare industry, and control over life and death, is well on its...

October 29, 2013

The Three R's: Raunchy, Rude, and Reprehensible

Would it be okay for a school to promote Victoria's Secrets, or Miley's twerks? Of course not, but are you aware the new school "uniform" for girls can only be described as "trash wear?" School fashion has always been a hot button issue, and dress co...

October 18, 2013

How Concentrated Knowledge Fails

Thomas Sowell recently evaluated Janet Yellen's nomination to be the new FED Chairman in a negative light by offering a simple quote from Mrs. Yellen. "Do policy-makers have the knowledge and ability to improve macroeconomic outcomes rather than maki...

October 10, 2013

Congress Should Keep up With the Joneses

If Congress does not raise the debt ceiling, the result will be no different than the Jones family deciding that they have maxed out their credit cards, and that if they continue borrowing and spending over their means, there will be significant pain...

September 28, 2013

You Can't Keep Drinking Forever

Much has been written regarding the economy and the Fed's Quantitative Easing (QE) policy. Many are applauding Fed Chairman Bernanke and touting the stock market as proof of economic growth. Unfortunately as John Adams said, "facts are stubborn thing...

April 12, 2013

Common Core: Nationalized State-Run Education

Common Core, the new federal education standards, may look delicious; but before you take a bite out of the apple, it might be a good idea to know a razor is inside. Like all Orwellian euphemisms, "Common Core" is not about innocent ideas like the w...

March 20, 2013

The Annulment of Same-sex Marriage

A day can't go by when the same sex marriage question is not portrayed as a mainstream issue. With the Supreme Court set to rule on the question, one must ask; who is pushing this agenda and what is at stake? According to five studies compiled by Ga...

December 18, 2012

Redistribution as Slavery

The idea that we should take from those who have and give to those who don't is viewed as proper and just among liberals. In fact, if you do not subscribe to redistribution ideology, you are attacked as being greedy at best and racist at worst. The p...