Daily Archives: April 12, 2011

By Thomas Sowell Since everybody else seems to be coming up with plans on how to cope with the skyrocketing national debt, let me try my hand at it too. My plan would start by cutting off all government transfer … Continue reading →

By Walter Williams This year, Congress will spend $3.7 trillion dollars. That turns out to be about $10 billion per day. Can we prey upon the rich to cough up the money? According to IRS statistics, roughly 2 percent of … Continue reading →

By Bernard Goldberg By the way, none of these brilliant liberal pundits bothered to mention that the top one percent of American taxpayers — otherwise known as “the rich” — pay about 40 percent of all federal income taxes. And … Continue reading →

“There is no question that Terry Jones [the Florida pastor who burned a Koran] is an opportunist. Yet what would one call those Muslims who both incite and commit violence at the slightest provocation? It is worth remembering that when … Continue reading →

Gun Owners’ Guide to the 2012 Election. This week, the picture is finally complete. First, the Obama White House decided to leap headfirst into the gun control debate. Then came the response from Congress, which is far more interested in … Continue reading →

John Boehner has just given away the Republican victory of 2010 at the bargaining table. Like the proverbial Uncle Sam who always wins the war but loses the peace, he has unilaterally disarmed the Republican Party by showing that he … Continue reading →

Constitutions do not impress the co-author of the McCain-Feingold assault on the First Amendment (his law restricts political speech). But the institute’s job — actually, it is every Arizonan’s job — is to protect the public interest. A virtuoso of … Continue reading →

“You say that it is your custom to burn widows. Very well. We also have a custom. When men burn a woman alive, we tie a rope around their necks and we hang them. Build your funeral pyre. Beside it, … Continue reading →