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Agenda of Truth

The national community-based group, ACORN, recently underwent some investigative journalism Sacha Baron Cohen-style. What the amateur journalist/actors/videographers found were several…

De Facto Censorship

In a recent letter to its customers, Medicare provider Humana urged its customers to contact their elected officials and express…

Mandatory Insurance, Shoddy Results

In a recent op-ed in the Wall Street Journal, Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick praises his state’s health care program as…

Correcting the Concession of Labor Day

On September 7th Americans observed the holiday known as Labor Day. Many of them, not knowing its origins, enjoyed a…

A Tribute to Dr. Norman Borlaug and Man’s Capacity to Shape Nature

September 12th should be a global day of mourning. For that is the day that one of mankind’s greatest heroes…

Sacrifice Before Solvency

Business schools fail their students by emphasizing altruism rather than the virtues of wealth-creation. With the global economy in tatters,…

Putting a Price on Freedom

The debate about today’s increasing push for government expansion focuses exclusively on cost, without evaluating whether such expansion is morally…

It’s Not Stealing Because I Don’t Want It to Be

When stripped of rationalizations, file sharing is clearly an act of theft. When Boston University grad student Joel Tenenbaum was…

Misleading Facts in the Health Care Debate

President Obama and those who espouse his proposals for health care reform often present seemingly compelling arguments for why the…

There’s No Such Thing as a Free Lunch Buffet

A recent article in the journal The Objective Standard argues that laws which force health insurers to cover individuals, regardless…