The Freedom View
- Entitlement That Isn't: Will $250 checks buy peace with seniors?
- The Senate is facing the politically uncomfortable prospect of raising the limit on the national debt — again — to somewhere north of $13 trillion. Senate Democrats are seeking a way to fold the admission of fiscal malpractice into some... Full story
- Money for war is wrongly diverted to pet projects
- This country would be much safer, with its core national interests better served, if the wars in both Iraq and Afghanistan were ended immediately.
While U.S troops are in the field, however, it is difficult to express just how utterly... Full story
- Obama: A curious prize pick
- Well, President Barack Obama is not the first, shall we say, nonobvious and, indeed, rather eccentric choice by the Norwegian Nobel Committee to be awarded the Nobel Peace Prize. Nobody knows exactly what guided the five-member committee selected by... Full story
- Many big cases on high court’s docket
- Yesterday was the first Monday in October, and as is customary, the U.S. Supreme Court begins its annual term, with a new justice, Sonia Sotomayor, on the bench.
The court will consider a number of interesting cases involving gun-ownership rights,... Full story
- Congress impasse
- Questions remain after president’s address on health
- President Barack Obama delivered a robust and even rousing speech in favor of what is still a rather generalized plan for increasing healthcare coverage by increasing government involvement in medical care — involvement that to date has tended... Full story
- Fuel for the fires
- Future blazes may be reduced if land is better managed
- It’s the same story every year in Southern California and throughout the dry Western states — wildfires consume thousands of acres of land, destroy homes and even take some lives. Public officials blame an act of God, just as U.S. Forest... Full story
- Afghan Dilemma
- Although U.S. government officials have made it a point not to talk too much about what the strategy and commitment in Afghanistan will be until it is over, it is not easy to predict just how important this week’s presidential election in... Full story