1. Facing Fiscal Meltdown, Municipalities Struggle With Pensions
(News/Blog)

Years of big spending by politicians at all levels have left the nation vulnerable to economic turmoil. While at the federal level this is masked to a degree by manipulation and inflation of the money ...

2. Elena Kagan and the First Amendment
(News/Blog)

... could regard as inflicting such ‘harm’ as to justify suspending the Constitution, but she offers as examples incitement to violence, ‘hate speech,’ and ‘fighting words.’ Since certain friends of the White ...

3. Government and the Price of Gas
(News/Blog)

... current recession consumer spending has declined significantly, representing a reduction in demand for goods and services. This should represent deflationary pressure on pricing, but in contrast, ...

4. Utah to Use Eminent Domain to Seize Federal Land
(News/Blog)

... in spending on education. According to the Washington Post, "Utah spends less per student than any other state [on education] and has the nation's largest class sizes." But complaints in Utah and other ...

5. How to Stop Inflation
(News/Blog)

... to limit spending to services which are truly necessary." The Met Life people didn't identify what those might be, but fortunately we have those readily identified in the Constitution itself. Limiting ...

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

... This does not mean endangering national security or affecting vital services, but it does mean helping the government to limit spending to services which are truly necessary. We should not run to the ...

7. Legal Plunder and a College Near You
(News/Blog)

One of the great things about being free, is that you get to keep the product of your labor. Or, to put it another way, you get to keep what you earn. Too bad it doesn’t work that way in the United States ...

8. Facing Financial Apocalypse
(News/Blog)

... deficits. For the 2009 budget year, which ended on September 30, the government's balance sheet showed a record deficit of $1.42 trillion, an all time record. Despite that dubious record, the spending ...

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

... spending came as a result of very loose credit. In other words people borrowed massive sums in order to pay for their real estate purchases. The question is, why would they do this? The answer lies with ...

10. What To Do About the Economy
(Archive/Opinion)

... that federal action can stimulate the economy. Dollars have been pumped into the economy and federal spending is rapidly on the rise. As far as policy goes, we are doing exactly those things that got the ...

11. Global Warming Skepticism
(Archive/Features)

... really alarming? Indeed, the success of climate alarmism can be counted in the increased federal spending on climate research from a few hundred million dollars pre-1990 to $1.7 billion today. He also ...

12. Religion and Civilization
(Archive/Features)

... accused of spending too much time on secular studies. To this he replied, says Durant, "that a theologian should keep abreast of science."6      The relationship between scientific advancement and religion ...