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June 4, 2008
Truth, it is said, is the first casualty in war. CACI International Inc. Chairman of the Board Jack London found that out the hard way. His company went to Iraq to help the war effort.
That commitment led employees to a war zone and to…
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May 28, 2008
One look at statistics – from GDP growth to the unemployment rate – and it’s obvious this isn’t the worst economic time in U.S. history. But it might be the worst journalistically. The major media give us only two degrees of economic news –…
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May 21, 2008
The $307-billion, five-year farm bill recently passed both houses of Congress with more than the two-thirds majority necessary to override a presidential veto. The Cato Institute has estimated that the last 20 years of farm programs have cost…
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May 14, 2008
Angry about the price of gas? It used to be you could simply blame Bill Clinton.
In December 1995, Clinton helped make sure our margin for error with oil supplies would one day be no margin at all. Clinton vetoed a budget that authorized…
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April 23, 2008
If you’re not too concerned about global warming, you’re probably a regular American. If you think, however, that it’s on par with World War II as a threat to the nation, you’re the managing editor of Time magazine.
Al Gore’s “We” ad…
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April 9, 2008
Candidates for president of the United States are being judged on their “plans” for the economy, health care, retirement, housing, etc.
However, in 1920 the renowned Austrian economist Ludwig von Mises published “Socialism,” in which he…
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April 2, 2008
Pity poor Al Gore. The former presidential candidate has a trophy room Tiger Woods would envy. He’s got the Nobel Peace Prize, an Emmy, even an Oscar. But much like his failed presidential campaign, Gore can’t win the big game.
Gore’s…
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March 26, 2008
Skyrocketing gasoline prices may be pushing the U.S. economy over the edge, but the oil-rich lords of the Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) oil cartel don’t give a hoot.
Chakib Khelil, OPEC’s president and Algeria’s…
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March 12, 2008
To hear the mainstream media tell it, we have a Titanic problem with global warming. Not large, but Titanic in that they believe “unsinkable” mankind is facing a looming cataclysm.
How do they know? Because some scientists tell them that’…
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March 5, 2008
The 2008 campaign season features sharp disagreements among the leading presidential aspirants from both parties. Climate change, however, seems to be the exception that proves the rule, as all three frontrunners have embraced broadly similar…