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Spring 2005

Google Versus The Pope

In recent weeks, with the world's eyes fixed on the deteriorating health of an ailing Pope, Google quietly offered users…

Sex, the Suburbs, and What Housewives Are Desperate For

Breaking every viewer record and emerging as the #1 primetime TV sensation, ABC's Desperate Housewives has been called the Sex…

The Real Purpose-Driven Life

Last March in Atlanta, suspected rapist Brian Nichols overpowered a deputy and stormed a courthouse, eventually shooting four people. Nichols…

The Pharmaceutical Industry: In the Business of Saving Your Life

The way the media would have you see it, the pharmaceutical industry is made up of a bunch of greedy…

The Wild West

I want to elaborate some on a point I made to introduce my editorial: that there is no general cultural…

The FDA: Corporate Stooge or Coercive Stodge?

In 1906, Upton Sinclair wrote The Jungle, the Food and Drug Act was passed, and the FDA was born. Founded…

“Buy American” is UN-American

According to a recent poll, 80% of Americans think it their patriotic duty to give preference to American-made products. But…

Reshaping Nature

Every week there are technological breakthroughs and innovations in crucial fields of production, such as computers and medicine. But you'd…

The Liberal Slant on the Liberal War

Any American who has glanced at a newspaper in the past two years knows that the liberals are unhappy about…

The Appeal of Ayn Rand

February 2nd marked the hundredth anniversary of the birth of one of America's most controversial and inspiring writers, Ayn Rand.…