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Fri, 03 Apr 2009 21:17:17 +0000 – By John R. Lott, Jr.Senior Research Scientist, University of Maryland, Author, “Freedomnomics” Time after time multiple- victim public shootings occur in “gun free zones” — public places where citizens are not legally able to carry guns. The horrible attacktoday in Binghamton, New York …

When George Stephanopoulos asked Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner on ABC’s “This Week,” on Sunday about possibly raising taxes, Geithner responded, “We’re going to have to do what it takes, were going to do what’s necessary.” When he was asked a follow up question Geithner continued “I think what the country …

Fri, 27 Feb 2009 21:00:08 +0000 – By Liz PeekFinancial Columnist As a candidate, Obama sought to portray himself as a pragmatist and centrist. That electability cloak vanished with the release of the 2010 fiscal budget. Consider: in this country there are too many houses for sale, driving down prices, …

Thu, 12 Mar 2009 01:29:28 +0000 – Most of the headlines regarding the recent Trinity College poll: ” The American Religious Identification Survey 2008,” herald the demise of religion in the United States… a nation that boasts being the most religious country in the Western world. The poll announced that …

What good purpose is served by releasing a report on CIA enhanced interrogation techniques while we are still at war with an enemy whose techniques include beheading Americans? Senate Intelligence Committee Chairwoman Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif. and her Democratic colleagues say that the CIA lied about their tactics and exceeded their …

Amid all the talk of cost and access to health care come stories of innovation and grassroots solutions to get people the dental care that they need. These solutions are not the invention of big government, corporate investment or complex social programs. Rather, they are the brainchild of collaborations in …

The fine folks who run the school system in Lincoln, Neb., are on a campaign to make their classrooms gender-inclusive. And that means teachers will no longer refer to boys and girls … as boys and girls. “Don’t use phrases such as ‘boys and girls,’ ‘you guys,’ ‘ladies and gentlemen,’ …

I recently returned from a medical mission to Guatemala organized by the John Moran Eye Center at the University of Utah. My first connection with Guatemala was in the 1990’s. I met the Hernandez brothers when they were kids. They were led into the examining room by their foster mother. …

The police shooting of 18-year-old Michael Brown in Ferguson, Mo., last month turned a St. Louis suburb of 21,000 into a media circus. The public watched breathlessly in the weeks that followed as violent protests pitted police against protesters and looters against shop owners. While so much of the discussion …

The Obama administration is reportedly considering air strikes in Syria against the terrorist group ISIS. The New York Times quotes “a top national security adviser” to the president as saying the U.S. is “‘not going to be restricted by borders’ to protect its interests…” What about American cities? If ISIS …