(Congress is proposing to stop Wal-Mart from entering the business. Guess who is lobbying them) But the world's largest retailer certainly hasn't given up hopes of taking on the financial-services industry. The Bentonville, Ark., company
The Conference Board of Canada recently released a report on innovation (or lack thereof) which claims that "Canadians are complacent and generally unwilling to take risks." It criticizes scientists for not publishing enough papers and inv
So by the time my daughter turns 70, those $2,000 annual gifts will have grown to more then $30 million! In fact, the account would make her a millionaire by the time she was 40. Imagine going through life with that kind of safety net
The wheels are coming off the Democratic machine, with angry voters starting to lose patience with the Party's chronic inability to act decisively on any of the key issues of public concern. In a Reuters dispatch on June 18, Democratic leaders i
(Imagine, no central control involved here) "Mega gifts," including a first installment of $1.9 billion from Warren Buffet to the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, helped boost US charitable giving to $295 billion last year, a new report
Just days after Iranian and Syrian-backed Hamas fighters imposed full control over the Gaza Strip, US Presidential George W. Bush promised his Israeli counterpart a 10-year military aid hike to help it handle new regional threats.
In the strictly controlled media world of communist China, "citizen journalism" is beating a way through censorship, breaking taboos and offering a pressure valve for social tensions. In one striking example this month, the Internet was la
Do you see where this is going? Couple a few more of these types of ideas with the impending NRA-sellout gun control legislation, and soon nobody will be able to buy guns.
More anti-LDS comments enter the 2008 Presidential campaign. This week, a volunteer for John McCain claimed Mormons fund the terrorist group Hamas, and criticized how members of the LDS faith treat women.
It was a McCain for President volunteer wh
Although Fred Thompson has yet to formally announce that he is running for President, the media are already looking for ways to take down his campaign and make Thompson less appealing to Republican primary voters. Thompson, referred to as “a Southern
McCain "may be relying on phantom fundraising events to convince supporters his second quarter fundraising won't be as disappointing as the first." This comes out of Florida, where the Tampa Tribune notes that events appearing on John M
...exposing the falsity of the official account of 9/11 should be high on the agenda of all people committed to reversing the present policies of the U.S. government, for at least four reasons...
John McCain, who made his name attacking special interests, has more lobbyists working on his staff or as advisers than any of his competitors, Republican or Democrat.
Bill and Hillary Clinton have raised eyebrows on Wall Street by liquidating a multi-million dollar stock portfolio just ahead of what may be a major stock market downturn.
I have to admit being shocked – and somewhat baffled – by his lobbying efforts on behalf of Jean Bertrand Aristide, the former president of Haiti, a committed leftist and anti-American demagogue
All of her life, Zoila Meyer believed she was an American. She even won election to the City Council of Adelanto. But now she is facing a threat of deportation for illegally voting, because she never became a citizen after being brought to this count
In a truly moral and civilized society, people exclusively interact through persuasion. Force has no place as a valid method of social interaction, and the only thing that removes force from the menu is the personal firearm, as paradoxical as it may
Coercive government always proves to be the worst way to do anything peaceful and civilized; the combination of coercion and top-down central planning ensures this. Furthermore, everyone knows that government is the worst way to do things, even thou
Vice president has shaped his times as no other has before. Cheney's proposal had become a military order from the commander in chief. Foreign terrorism suspects held by the United States were stripped of access to any court -- civilian or milita
Kansas City cop Victor D. Waller, 45, resigned Friday. Two days earlier he had pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct in connection with the filming incident. He received a 90-day suspended sentence and two years of probation and also was ordered to pa
A massive search ended in sadness Saturday when authorities announced they found a body believed to be a pregnant woman who vanished from her home a week earlier. A police officer believed to be the father of the unborn child was arrested on two coun
This research on vitamin D is such good news that the American Cancer Society, of course, had to say something against it. An ACS spokesperson, Marji McCullough, strategic director of nutritional epidemiology for the American Cancer Society, flatly s
A federal judge who used to authorize wiretaps in terrorism and espionage cases criticized yesterday President Bush's decision to order warrantless surveillance after the 9/11 attacks. "We have to understand you can fight the war [on terror
Global financial instability has sparked a surge in "monetary nationalism" -- the idea that countries must make and control their own currencies. But globalization and monetary nationalism are a dangerous combination, a cause of financial