The global economy appears to be entering an epoch in which governments are reasserting their role in the lives of individuals and businesses. Once again, barriers are rising. Call it the new nationalism. "The era of easy globalization is certainly over," says Pulitzer Prize-winning author Daniel Yergin, whose 1...(Read more...)
Cheers swept through Mission Control at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory when the touchdown signal from the Phoenix Mars Lander was detected after a nail-biting descent. "Phoenix has landed! Phoenix has landed! Welcome to the northern plains of Mars," deputy systems engineer Richard Kornfeld announced.(Read more...)
Article excerpt: "For nearly two hundred years liberals have believed that the government can solve complex economic problems like the provision and fair distribution of goods and services. For two hundred years they have tested that belief and for two hundred years they have failed. How is it possible for human beings...(Read more...)
Former Republican and new convert to a "state's rights" position on drugs, abortion, and gay marriage, Bob Barr is the pragmatic, not the principled choice of the Libertarian nominating convention. Second-place Mary Ruwart, author of a book about her sister's Jack Kevorkian assisted suicide, declared she would not run ...(Read more...)
Here is Wayne Allyn Root's website. Third-place Root must be confirmed by the convention, but Second-place Mary Ruwart has said she will not serve under Barr.(Read more...)
Click on the link if you wish to view Horowitz's live speech on his latest book. He's an ex-communist critic of the left, and a rather good speaker.(Read more...)
Ndirangu said that residents are superstitious and have often targeted suspected witches and wizards, but this week's attack was the most shocking in recent years. The police officer who spoke on condition of anonymity said investigators had little hope of making progress because the villagers have refused to i...(Read more...)
Houston has had one of the fastest-growing populations in the US, and the same access to the same types of loans. So why hasn't the housing bubble hit them as hard? Lack of zoning regulations proved to be the key!(Read more...)
