By John Stossel (Archive) · Wednesday, March 30, 2011 I went to Princeton in 1969, where they taught me that government could solve the world’s problems. Put the smartest people in a room, give them enough taxpayer money, and they will fix most everything. During those years, I heard nothing about an alternative. How things [...]

By Austin Bay (Archive) · Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Once again, it’s time for Candidate Obama, circa 2007-2008, to condemn President Barack Obama. For that matter, the April 2009 Obama avatar should also sneer at the current version — if he can’t find the time to attend a Washington-area protest demonstration. So why should Candidate [...]

By Tony Blankley (Archive) · Wednesday, March 30, 2011 In 1427, a ship captain sailing for his Portuguese Prince, Henry the Navigator, discovered the Azores Islands. If the question of the significance of this event had been posed, at the time, to Sultan Murad Khan (the leader of the Ottoman Empire), or to Itzcoatl and [...]

By Ben Shapiro (Archive) · Wednesday, March 30, 2011 Two weeks ago, I visited New York City with my wife, who was interviewing at a local medical school located in the Bronx. I dropped her at the school. Since I was lacking a car, I hopped on a public bus, intending to take it to [...]

Mar 30, 2011 By T.L. Davis The Senate Subcommittee on Western Hemisphere, Peace Corps and Global Narcotics Affairs might get a little more heated than usual on March 31, 2011. Among the panel members is Kenneth Melson, Acting Director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (BATFE). The hearing will be the first [...]

Mar 30, 2011 By Peter Heck During President Obama’s Libyan War address, I was listening for one thing.  While most Americans were already aware of what a madman Gaddafi was as well as the evil he was committed to perpetrating against his own people, what we weren’t clear on was how a man who persistently [...]

Mar 30, 2011 By Robert Morrison The President finally addressed the nation and the world nearly two weeks after initiating military action against Libyan dictator Muammar Gaddafi. Boiling down his speech, he claimed a moral imperative to intervene with force because Gaddafi had killed innocent civilians and destroyed mosques in his struggle to hang on [...]

Mar 30, 2011 By Neil Snyder US involvement in the Kosovo War was based on a principle first espoused by Prime Minister Tony Blair of Britain — “We have a responsibility to act.”  President Bill Clinton wasn’t convinced at first, but after Blair’s unyielding campaign to sell his idea, Clinton went along.  It was the [...]

Mar 30, 2011 By J.R. Dunn The divided state was an artifact of the Cold War in which nations conquered or liberated at the close of WWII were partitioned into zones controlled by the Western Allies on the one hand and the Soviet Union on the other. These included East and West Germany, North and [...]

Mar 29, 2011 IBD Nuclear Power: The greatest danger at Fukushima was and is the spent fuel stored at the reactor sites. So why are we doing the same thing when we have a safe place to store it? Before a 9.0 axis-shifting earthquake damaged the nuclear reactors at Fukushima, Japan, legislation was introduced in [...]