1. FCC Moves to Regulate the Internet
(News/Blog)

The Federal Communications Commission is set to begin a move to regulate the Internet. According to CNSNews.com, by a “3-2 party-line vote on Thursday at the FCC,” the agency “began the formal process ...

2. The Dark Side of Jacques Cousteau
(News/Blog)

June 11 marks the 100th anniversary of the birth of explorer, scientist, and environmentalist Jacques Cousteau. Born in 1910, he served in the French Navy before and during World War II, and went on ...

3. Eminent Domain and the Rights of Property
(News/Blog)

In China, one man has had enough. Yang Youde, who lives near the city of Wuhan, has had to begin defending his property rights with homemade artillery. He's not fighting off who you might think. There ...

4. The Constitution and the Fate of the Nation
(News/Blog)

Former Speaker of the House and probably future Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has written a very interesting column for the Washington Post arguing in support of his position that the ...

5. Google Makes a Good Move on China
(News/Blog)

It’s refreshing to see that at least one large American company is willing to take a stand against tyranny. That company, surprisingly, is Google. As has been widely reported, the company is in a spat ...

6. The Keystone Kops' Great Beer Bust
(News/Blog)

Time for an axiom: Big Government is Bad. Or, put another way, power corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely. Or, maybe another one: big government is the last, best refuge of scoundrels. Case ...

7. Met Life On Inflation, Circa 1959
(News/Blog)

The following text ran as a full page advertisement for Metropolitan Life in the March 30, 1959 issue of Life magazine: There IS A Cure For Inflation To most people, inflation means that it costs more ...

8. Taking the "Free" Out of Freelance Writing
(News/Blog)

... the article is well written. I wish there was some easy fix for this death spiral of mediocrity that is destroying the profession. But, there is no easy answer. The traditional publishing world that so ...

9. NEW Patriots and Global Warming
(News/Blog)

On Tuesday, October 13, I spoke to the NEW (Northeast Wisconsin) Patriots, a local Green Bay activist group that got its start, I believe, in supporting Ron Paul during his presedential campaign and later ...

10. Greenspan and the Real Cause of the Financial Crisis
(News/Blog)

Another major financial crisis is inevitable, that is the word from former Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan. Speaking to the BBC, Greenspan said," The crisis will happen again, but it will be different." The ...

11. Baucus: Fines for Families that Fail to Get Health Insurance
(News/Blog)

In the ongoing fight to stop the government takeover of the health care industry, the Democrats keep coming up with ever more disagreeable and dangerous plans. The latest is from Democratic Senator ...

12. Future Tech
(Archive/Features)

Every age has its pessimists. The ’60s had Rachel Carson and her overblown manifesto Silent Spring, which foretold of the poisoning of the planet by man. The ’70s were influenced by the radical ideas ...

13. Bad Ideas for Saving the Planet
(Archive/Features)

Anyone growing up in the 1970s and 1980s will remember the scare stories about forests denuded as a result of toxic acid rain. The most famous of those scare stories centered on the famous Adirondacks. ...

14. Global Warming Skepticism
(Archive/Features)

An Inconvenient Truth, Al Gore's documentary on the threat posed by global warming, took home two Oscars at the recently held 79th annual Academy Awards. The Academy awarded the filmmakers with the Oscar ...

15. The Aral Sea - High and Dry
(Archive/Features)

The scene is nothing short of apocalyptic. A fleet of fishing vessels, seven or eight in all, lies immobile in the desert sands of central Asia. Most of the ships are in tight formation, seeming to jockey ...

16. Duranty’s Lethal Lies
(Archive/Features)

When it was discovered that New York Times reporter Jayson Blair’s work was shot through with plagiarism, fraud, and fabrication, the BBC described the affair as “the biggest scandal in the history of ...

17. Freedom and Prosperity
(Archive/Features)

On August 11th, 2000, Ron Brownstein, a reporter for the Los Angeles Times, boarded Air Force One to meet with President Bill Clinton. In the ensuing interview, Mr. Brownstein asked Mr. Clinton the following ...