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Crafting an Economic Policy that Actually Works Murray Weidenbaum
Category: USA Yesterday Published: November 2011
Economic freedom is intertwined closely with personal liberty; business-government relations should be characterized by less intervention by government; and free trade is the international combination of these two themes.
 
Dispelling the Myth of God versus Gay Jay Michaelson
Category: Religion Published: November 2011
"If this world, with its astounding variety of life, culture, and natural beauty indeed was made by God, then surely God likes variety."
 
Fattening Up the Coffers Michael Fenster
Category: Health & Fitness Published: November 2011
While a fat tax may fill the Treasury and expand the government's power over our ever-decreasing individual liberty, the chances are slim it would accomplish any waist--or waste--reduction.
 
Getting a Divorce Recession-Style Mark Banschick
Category: Economics Published: November 2011
The economy is affecting divorcing couple the way it is affecting everyone--encouraging frugality and collaboration.
 
Has Religion Dropped a Notch Below S&M? Dolores T. Puterbaugh
Category: Life in America Published: November 2011
For the present time, Catholics and Jews are free to beat one another for pleasure, but may have little time remaining to circumcise their sons into the covenant.
 
In Pursuit of a New President James W. Thomson
Category: Political Landscape Published: November 2011
"As [Pres. Barack] Obama himself has stated, elections have consequences--and the votes cast one year from now very well could be for the highest stakes, sans the Civil War, in U.S. history."
 
Kicking Up a Storm in 3D Hannah Sides , Karen Keeler
Category: Entertainment Published: November 2011
Rooted in tradition, the Radio City "Christmas Spectacular" has impressed audiences for almost 80 years, and this year's transformation is sure to surpass all expectations.
 
Military Miracles Show the Way Susan Pressly Lephart
Category: Medicine & Health Published: November 2011
While some might say no good can come from war, in the field of medicine, that is not necessarily the case. Significant advances are born out of necessity on the battlefield, and they often end up saving the lives of civilians.
 
Pissarro's People
Category: Museums Today Published: November 2011
"Camille Pissarro was a committed reader of radical social, political, and economic theory. His profound knowledge of social philosophy, which informs much of his art, far exceeds that of any other significant painter of the period."
 
Standing Up to the Mullahs Armin Arefi
Category: Worldview Published: November 2011
The author is a French-Iranian journalist who was working in Iran until, one day, the authorities confiscated his press pass, interrogated him at a secret police headquarters, and threatened to harm his family. He then fled to France.
 
Strange Beasts in the Stellar Zoo Judith Braffman-Miller
Category: Science & Technology Published: November 2011
"The end would not be pretty--all of the nuceli of all the atoms of Earth might morph into strange matter, and our entire planet would be converted into an enormous and extremely hot glob."
 
Supreme Decisions Ahead Edward J. Erler
Category: National Affairs Published: November 2011
While the Tea Party probably is our best hope, its adherents will have to learn that the task is not to weaken the power of govt--it is to confine the govt to the exercise of its delegated powers that was the legacy of the founders.
 
Taking a Long Look at Short Sales Mike Cuevas
Category: Business & Finance Published: November 2011
Losing one's home is a painful process, but short sales can help families to decrease the time and frustration they spend in financial limbo--and maintain their credit while moving forward.
 
The European Union in Crisis Vaclav Klaus
Category: Worldview Published: November 2011
". . . With the way the American government has been going, the U.S. might be able to catch up with us--in terms of our problems--very soon, but your nation is not as far along yet."
 
The Race Is On Raymond L. Fischer
Category: Mass Media Published: November 2011
When the Supreme Court overturned a long-term trend to limit political spending of corporations and unions, it set the stage for a lively and lucrative 2012 presidential campaign.
 
Why the Democratic Party Is the Enemy of the Republic Jonathan W. Emord
Category: American Thought Published: November 2011
"Democrats do not simply dissent from the Founding Fathers' conception of good government, they oppose that conception."
 
Yuletide Greetings
Category: American Culture Published: November 2011
The power of Christmas derives from the strength and appeal of its repeated rituals and the presumed antiquity of its traditions. . . .