Amid celebrations of our nation's 250th birthday, Gallup serves up a sobering portrait of general dissatisfaction with our nation's core institutions. "Confidence in U.S. institutions Remains Near All-Time Low," reports Gallup. Of 14 core institutions - banks, big business, labor, ...
No matter what happens in Tuesday's elections, support for wealth taxes keeps growing. Its justification is based on the idea that the very rich owe all of us something, and taxing their fortunes is collecting on that debt. We're told their success fuels inequality and that it's ...
Last week, I went to the funeral of a friend's 100-year-old mother. It was sad, and I will sorely miss her, but the service was not tragic. In fact, it was uplifting, a lesson on a life well lived. What impressed me at the service was hearing her friends describe how she'd become a ...
America has a deadly addiction to war. Since 1950, presidents of both political parties have sent American troops into conflicts across the globe, killed countless people, sacrificed the lives and limbs of American servicemen and women, and wasted trillions of dollars. Yet these wars ...
Every American taxpayer has the right to support or oppose how every penny of their (forced) contributions to the federal and state government is spent. And yes, this includes American "aid" to countries that include Israel. But when it comes to Israel (and only Israel), there is a ...
How many "Dan Sullivans" does an election need? One would seem plenty, but Alaska is going to the polls with two "Dan Sullivans" on the ballot – one the sitting Republican U.S. senator in a nip-and-tuck battle to save his seat, and the other a random guy whose only discernible purpose in ...
