We’ve heard for years that the government’s deficit was too big. They said it of Reagan’s deficit and George W. Bush’s. But no government...
May 1998 -- In 1987, several railroad executives believed there was a better way to run a railroad. After finding an opportunity to acquire
“Check your premises” is an injunction that runs as a subtheme through Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged , and it is a phrase that seems to...
Andy McCarthy was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, which is where many financial cases are tried. Thus, he speaks
The first great post-election policy decision facing the lame-duck, Democrat-dominated Congress is whether or not to allow taxes to
Larry Ribstein has an excellent blog post on the end of what is probably the last backdating trial, that of Bruce Karatz, former CEO of KB Homes. Although the government had sought a prison term of six and half years, Judge Otis D. Wright sentenced Karatz to five years’ probation.
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The Supreme Court’s “honest services” decision not only sent Jeff Skilling’s case back to the Fifth Circuit, it also sent Conrad Black’s case back to the Seventh Circuit. But Black did not fare well in an opinion written by Judge Richard Posner :
Jeff Skilling’s lawyer has presented arguments for a new trial to a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit. The centerpiece of his case...
The Democrats can’t garner votes in the 2010 general elections by bragging about their legislative achievements—greater government control..
The bad news came in the form of international math and science test scores for eighth-graders. American students placed in the middle rank of thirty-eight nations, showing no improvement from the same comparison in 1995 despite concerted efforts to raise the quality of science instruction. American students were surpassed not only by Asians (Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Korea)-no surprise there-but also by Slovenia, Hungary, and the Russian Federation. The study, conducted by the National Center for Educational Statistics, also reported data on what is probably a major reason for the United States's mediocre performance. More American teachers majored in education than in the subject they teach; in other countries the reverse is true.
January 2001 -- "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else." So said John Maynard Keynes, and truly.
In Viable Values, Tara Smith sets forth an exposition of Ayn Rand's metaethical theory and defends it against competing views regarding the
October 2000 -- John L. Kelley, author of Bringing the Market Back In, is a professor of history at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth....
Those who love the Enlightenment spirit are sometimes tempted to believe that it engendered fraternity among the age's disciples. And to an
Well, the United States had begun to turn around in the summer of 1932. And that was characteristic of the entire world, not just the U.S..
The big influences on Hamilton were the economists he read and also the philosophers of natural law and English constitutional law....
February 2001 -- "There is no right to do wrong." So said Alan Keyes used to say during his presidential campaign. Apparently, he either did not grasp or did not care that freedom implies the right to do wrong, inasmuch as a person permitted no option but to walk the straight and narrow does not walk this path freely. Of course, libertarians know well the truth of that observation, but today it demands a rider: Freedom exists only when the right to do wrong is more than nominal.
February 2001 -- A nation's political trends are governed by several factors--the state of the economy, the vested interests of politicians
February 2001 -- In recent months, the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for acts of arson across the country
We’ve heard for years that the government’s deficit was too big. They said it of Reagan’s deficit and George W. Bush’s. But no government...
May 1998 -- In 1987, several railroad executives believed there was a better way to run a railroad. After finding an opportunity to acquire
“Check your premises” is an injunction that runs as a subtheme through Ayn Rand’s novel Atlas Shrugged , and it is a phrase that seems to...
Andy McCarthy was a federal prosecutor in the Southern District of New York, which is where many financial cases are tried. Thus, he speaks
The first great post-election policy decision facing the lame-duck, Democrat-dominated Congress is whether or not to allow taxes to
Larry Ribstein has an excellent blog post on the end of what is probably the last backdating trial, that of Bruce Karatz, former CEO of KB Homes. Although the government had sought a prison term of six and half years, Judge Otis D. Wright sentenced Karatz to five years’ probation.
Take our poll
The Supreme Court’s “honest services” decision not only sent Jeff Skilling’s case back to the Fifth Circuit, it also sent Conrad Black’s case back to the Seventh Circuit. But Black did not fare well in an opinion written by Judge Richard Posner :
Jeff Skilling’s lawyer has presented arguments for a new trial to a three-judge panel of the Fifth Circuit. The centerpiece of his case...
The Democrats can’t garner votes in the 2010 general elections by bragging about their legislative achievements—greater government control..
The bad news came in the form of international math and science test scores for eighth-graders. American students placed in the middle rank of thirty-eight nations, showing no improvement from the same comparison in 1995 despite concerted efforts to raise the quality of science instruction. American students were surpassed not only by Asians (Taiwan, Japan, Singapore, Korea)-no surprise there-but also by Slovenia, Hungary, and the Russian Federation. The study, conducted by the National Center for Educational Statistics, also reported data on what is probably a major reason for the United States's mediocre performance. More American teachers majored in education than in the subject they teach; in other countries the reverse is true.
January 2001 -- "The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else." So said John Maynard Keynes, and truly.
In Viable Values, Tara Smith sets forth an exposition of Ayn Rand's metaethical theory and defends it against competing views regarding the
October 2000 -- John L. Kelley, author of Bringing the Market Back In, is a professor of history at Shawnee State University, Portsmouth....
Those who love the Enlightenment spirit are sometimes tempted to believe that it engendered fraternity among the age's disciples. And to an
Well, the United States had begun to turn around in the summer of 1932. And that was characteristic of the entire world, not just the U.S..
The big influences on Hamilton were the economists he read and also the philosophers of natural law and English constitutional law....
February 2001 -- "There is no right to do wrong." So said Alan Keyes used to say during his presidential campaign. Apparently, he either did not grasp or did not care that freedom implies the right to do wrong, inasmuch as a person permitted no option but to walk the straight and narrow does not walk this path freely. Of course, libertarians know well the truth of that observation, but today it demands a rider: Freedom exists only when the right to do wrong is more than nominal.
February 2001 -- A nation's political trends are governed by several factors--the state of the economy, the vested interests of politicians
February 2001 -- In recent months, the Environmental Liberation Front (ELF) has claimed responsibility for acts of arson across the country