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  • Civil War Anniversary -- Are We Still a Nation Divided?

    Published April 12, 2011

    The first shots in the Civil War were fired at Fort Sumter on April 12, 150 years ago today. There are those who suggest the nation is once again as divided as it was a century and a half ago. Do they have a point?

  • Another Foolish Move By Congress

    Published March 01, 2011

    Catch share is not only a better deal for the fishing industry, its good for the U.S. taxpayer.

  • Why Vote?

    Published November 02, 2010

    Your vote is your voice – and the only person who can silence your voice is you.

  • Sen. Lisa Murkowski's Modern-Day Fairy Tale Deserves to Be Mocked

    Published September 24, 2010

    Sen. Lisa Murkowski’s decision to run as a write in candidate, after promising, while she was ahead in the polls that she would respect the wishes of the voters, is an angry and petulant act that shows utter contempt for the democratic process.

  • 5 Places You'll (Probably) Never Find a Supreme Court Justice

    Published May 12, 2010

    Don't go looking for our Supreme Court justices in any of these places...

  • Why America Needs to Listen to Newt

    Published April 14, 2010

    It is deceptive to argue that Obama is a centrist. As Gingrich suggests, he sits atop a secular, socialist machine that seeks to enlarge the power of the American government in order to remake American society and reshape its values.

  • What Obama Must Do In His State of the Union Speech

    Published January 27, 2010

    In the strictest sense, the State of the Union is not a particularly important speech. The remarks given tonight by President Barack Obama will largely be a laundry list of proposals for the Congress to take up alongside statements of what he intends for the executive branch to do over the next ...

  • Kennedy, Catholics and Communion

    Published November 24, 2009

    Bishop Thomas Tobin’s request that U.S. Rep. Patrick Kennedy (D-R.I.), refrain from asking for Holy Communion seems, to me, to be an eminently reasonable one. While not a Catholic, I understand the hierarchical nature of the church and the role that doctrine plays within it. To put it simply, and ...

  • Why Self-Insurance Is the Answer to Our Health Care Mess

    Published October 29, 2009

    The real way to fix our health care mess is to follow a self-insurance model.

  • Why Self-Insurance Is the Answer to Our Health Care Mess

    Published October 29, 2009

    Despite its current problems, the U.S. economy is still the envy of the world, largely because it is still more or less governed by an entrepreneurial spirit. The idea that a person with a new idea or a better idea can, as a general principle, succeed through hard work and yes, luck, is still a ...