Ben Bernanke, head of the Federal Reserve, announced another round of “quantitative easing” yesterday. The Fed will buy $40 billion worth of mortgage-backed bonds every month,...
Chicago pays its teachers nearly twice the median income. Its voters elected a mayor who promised reform. Let them see if they, and he, meant what...
Biologist Deborah Gordon and computer scientist Balaji Prabhakar of Stanford University found harvester ants use a system to control the rate of sending out ant foragers...
Tomorrow is the eleventh anniversary of 9/11. Uncannily, this anniversary falls on the same day of the week, in the eleventh year. (Numerologists should have a...
What explains the Democratic Party’s curious attitude toward money? Maybe they simply don’t understand it.
Conservative hawks may want Rep. Todd Akin scrubbed from the ticket even as religious leaders and those voicing the social issues in this election cycle are...
The battle between Evolution and Creation has raged since the late 1800s when Charles Darwin’s book took the world by storm. However, that debate has seen...
In a recent speech, our interesting Vice President stated that the putative President (that is, the man now occupying the White House) inherited debt which was...
In 1859, Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection or the Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life....
Few stories have managed to jump off the page and grip the heart and the better sensibilities of this writer as much as the recently released...