Archive for December, 2009

Author Tony DeMaio TO TELL THE TRUTH (It depends upon what you mean by “is”.) LBT: In considerable frustration recently your Editor howled, “Don’t they teach logic anywhere in the United States any more?! Do we have to write a basic handout on syllogisms and modus ponens?!” The answer, fortunately, is “No.” Tony De Maio [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham Leftists have said censoriously for years that all of us are only one catastrophe away from being homeless, which is absurd. Most of us are no such thing, although it is becoming less so with each new tax and every additional regulation and restriction and every drop in the value of [...]

Author Linda Brady Traynham Economic matters are far easier to understand if we view the entire thrust of statist politics and policies as intended to destroy wealth and freedom. It doesn’t matter what the money is spent on, so long as it lowers the standard of living of the citizenry and increases control over the [...]

Author Tony De Maio Several years ago, the Ford Foundation decided to send a mission to central Australia to assist the Aborigines with medical care. They searched in vain for a person with a background in the language and also a medical background to head the mission. Finally, the foundation decided to get someone who [...]