Putting It In Reverse
The once stalwart US auto industry has been brought to its knees. A plethora of problems, including poor management decisions…
Whole Foods, Partial Rights
In 2007, Whole Foods, the popular purveyor of natural foods, sought to expand its business by acquiring rival grocer Wild…
Alan Greenspan is Not an Objectivist
Larry Breinhart of the Huffington Post and Barrett Sheridan of Newsweek are two of many commentators to use Alan Greenspan's…
Defending Property Rights—It’s No Day at the Beach
Thirty years ago, George and Sharlee McNamee purchased a beachfront house in California, hoping to create a home in which…
Hell on Earth and Good Will Toward Men
President-elect Barack Obama has announced his intention to present a “major” speech in the capital of a Muslim country soon…
Condemned By Democracy
Recently in Afghanistan a young man–Parwez Kambakhsh–was arrested, imprisoned, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to death. After the death penalty…
Welcome to the Post-Danish-Cartoons World
The BBC News reports that, on the eve of its long-anticipated release, Sony recalled its latest video game, LittleBigPlanet, from…
Hope Your Medical Emergency Can Wait
President-elect Barack Obama has said he favors a single-payer health care system such as the one Canada has now. But…
Measure Q and the Lending Crisis in Education
The city of Los Angeles passed a $7 billion bond measure to refurbish public schools on Election Day. “Measure Q,”…
CEO Pay: Money Well Spent
CEOs, some declare, make too much money. The basic premise of this claim is that the ‘excessive’ pay is undeserved–-that…