Race Alarmists Hijack Black History Month

Black History Month is like Christmas for race alarmists. It is the perfect time to unwrap the results of racial disparity studies to imply some sort of institutional racism.
A recent example is a study titled Reviving the Goal of… Read More

Are Common Sense Studies Necessary?

The United States is so wealthy that we award researchers millions of dollars per year to fund “important” studies that report nothing beyond common sense. Why does it take a research team of PhDs to create statistical tables to report… Read More

Protecting the Poor from the Media’s Gas Tax

Why do so-called progressives seem eager to ignore the real needs of the poor? A recent example was the New York Times editorial calling on President-Elect Obama to institute a random gasoline tax to keep gas prices from dropping below… Read More

Greenboozled

Being “green” is the new cool. Your family’s “green Christmas” and toy purchases from Greentoys.com this season will advertise to your friends and relatives that you care about the environment. But environmentalists are balking. They say that too many companies… Read More

Who’s to Blame for Chubby Children?

Are America’s children overweight because of advertising? A new study suggests that banning fast-food ads would reduce the number of overweight children ages 3 to 11 by 18 percent and would reduce the number of overweight adolescents ages 12 to… Read More

Unemployment and Social Cohesion

As the U.S. economy continues to slide into a recession, those in our society who are truly disadvantaged are less able to absorb the economic shocks and must remain a priority. With deep job cuts in retail, manufacturing, and construction… Read More

High School HIV Scare Points to Moral Crisis

All over the world news agencies are reporting the startling revelation that at Normandy High School in suburban St. Louis-the neighborhood I live in-students are now being tested for HIV after an infected person told health officials as many as… Read More

The Enduring Foolishness of Racial Politics

With only a few weeks to Election Day, racial politics has reared its pathetic head as pundits attempt to decipher poll numbers and audience comments at political rallies. It seems silly to imagine that adults in America may vote along… Read More

Developing Nations Offer Hope for U.S. Retailers

Even as economic news continues to be stormy, a silver lining is discernible in the continued advance of globalization. As a new report on department stores indicates, the progress of developing economies promises to benefit the rest of the world… Read More

John Edwards Is the Real World

Why is any American shocked to learn that John Edwards committed adultery and lied about it? Do we not know our neighbors, friends, family? Adulterous promiscuity is one of America’s favorite past times. Hot dogs, baseball, and promiscuity — the… Read More

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