Money is Flooding the World Markets

May 31, 2007 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Central banks live by a simple financial principle: Whenever economic activity stagnates or declines, they quickly lower their interest rates and expand their credits. But when business seems to improve, they hesitate and vacillate in removing the rate cuts. The … Read more>

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What Matters in Mexico

May 24, 2007 | by | Topic: The Global Challenge

As conservatives continue to view Mexico through the three-dimensional lens of immigration, immigration, and immigration, they might want to widen their perspective to consider a human-rights atrocity that ought to outrage them as much as border fences.

While virtually no … Read more>

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Addressing the Chinese “Threat”

May 23, 2007 | by | Topic: The Global Challenge

Guest Commentary

Iraq is a tragic problem for the United States and its allies, but hopefully a temporary one. Thankfully the old U.S.S.R. is gone, no matter how hard Vladimir Putin might attempt to put it together again. But another … Read more>

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John F. Kennedy: A Catholic in the White House

May 18, 2007 | by | Topic: The Content of Character, The DNA of Greatness

May 29 marks the 90th  anniversary of John F. Kennedy’s birth. Kennedy was struck down by an assassin’s bullet in the prime of life, prompting national anguish. His vitality, idealism, powerful rhetoric, and charisma inspired many younger Americans to social … Read more>

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Reasons for Leaving Iraq

May 10, 2007 | by | Topic: The Global Challenge

If you are reading this sentence, let me apologize for the somewhat misleading title of this article. I am not arguing for the withdrawal of our military from Iraq; rather, I am asserting that those making that argument owe it … Read more>

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Abortion and American Psychology

May 9, 2007 | by | Topic: The Content of Character

The Supreme Court’s recent decision banning partial-birth abortion has renewed public interest in abortion politics and policy. Despite the infrequency of late-term abortions, the ban is significant because it strikes at one rationale for the general availability of abortion: the … Read more>

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French Voters Choose Big Government Over Big Government

May 8, 2007 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

Guest Commentary

“I kept on going into factories, I kept on talking with workers to tell them that I want to be a president of the republic who will protect them, who will protect against outsourcing, that I will not … Read more>

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Casey Goes After the Oil Companies

May 7, 2007 | by | Topic: The Path to Freedom

It’s time to scrap last year’s carefully crafted campaign image of Robert Casey as a moderate. Barely three months after taking office, the junior U.S. senator from Pennsylvania is launching class warfare in the virulent anti-capitalist tradition. In reaction to … Read more>

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