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Turks Glorify Historic Slaughter and Rape of Christians

Earlier this week a news report unwittingly demonstrated how Turkey???once deemed the most ???secular...

Crony Socialism: Governments All Over the World Are Messing Up a Free Trade Market

To quote the late, inordinately great Ronald Reagan, “Government is not the solution to our problem –...

Imperial Overstretch

Toward the end of the presidency of George H.W. Bush, America stood alone at the top of the world — t...

Hillary Clinton’s Slide in Polls Leaves Her Vulnerable

“Despite everything,” the often interesting analyst Jamelle Bouie writes in Slate – “everything” incl...

Are Media Just Hillary’s Fair-weather Friends?

Don't you find it a bit odd that two glaringly contradictory narratives surround Hillary Clinton's bi...

Who Lost Iraq?

After the pro-Western government of China was forced to flee to the island of Taiwan in 1949, when th...

Investing for Income in a Rising Rate Market

When the interest rate landscape begins to shift, as might be the case following the upbeat employmen...

Congress Should Address Patent Trolls

So, if you hold a patent and you think someone is violating it, you file a lawsuit....

The Essential King Dollar/Low-Energy Nexus

The strong May jobs report — including a 280,000 jump in nonfarm payrolls — reminds me of the big deb...

A Sea of Dividends Awaits Thoughtful Investors

Yield-oriented investors often choose domestic companies that pay high dividends, but this path may n...

Vanguard Gets Cozy with China A-Shares

Chinese stocks, particularly the stocks traded in Mainland China known as A-shares, have been on fire...

Obama’s Foreign Policy Delusions

President Obama's stunning declaration that the global image of the United States has greatly improve...

Who Can Play a Mixed-Race Role?

Let’s set aside whether Cameron Crowe’s new movie, “Aloha,” is a good or bad movie. Whatever the flic...

Are We In for Another High-Crime Era After the Response to Ferguson and Baltimore?

Are we seeing a reversal of the 20-year decline in violent crime in America? A new nationwide crime w...