The late Albert Einstein defined "insanity" as doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. Keep that thought in mind as you read what follows. For two days this week a United Nations meeting in Vienna will review the failed 10-year-old global "war on drugs" policy. Thei...

It's another example of the huge gap between what the leftist news media tells the public and the actual truth. I refer to the news coverage of an agreement between UBS, the battered Swiss banking giant, and U.S. government prosecutors announced on Wednesday. A subhead in The New York Times screams:...

A few years ago, following a two-year study by experts in all segments of the criminal justice process, an American Bar Association task force documented the explosive growth of federal criminal law, including the startling fact that more than 40% of the federal criminal provisions enacted since the...

We hold no special brief for the now humbled Swiss banking giant, UBS, but one must feel some small sympathy for the continued public pain inflicted on them, no doubt with glee, by relentless congressional inquisitors on behalf of the U.S. Senate's resident anti-tax haven scold, Senator Carl Levin (...

Two hundred years ago today, on February 12, 1809, one of the great inspirations in my life, Abraham Lincoln, the 16th president of the United States, was born in a rude log cabin on the Kentucky frontier. For an intimate sense of how far Lincoln rose, visit, as I have, the Lincoln Birthplace Nation...

As you read what follows, keep in mind the following dictionary definition: demagogue - noun, verb, -gogued, -goguing. 1) a person, esp. an orator or political leader, who gains power and popularity by arousing the emotions, passions, and prejudices of the people. 2)   to treat or manipulate (a po...

"Many of us who know Ayn Rand's work have noticed that with each passing week, and with each successive bailout plan and economic stimulus scheme out of Washington, our current politicians are committing the very acts of economic lunacy that Atlas Shrugged parodied in 1957, when this 1,000-page nove...

Since the election last November, (especially in the last two weeks since he took office), events are tending to make Barack Obama appear, not as the agent of promised hope and change, but more like the typical Chicago politician, (Rod Blagojevich most certainly excepted). What's more, when it comes...

Emergencies of any kind, especially major economic dislocations, are eagerly seized upon by statist politicians whose constant goal is the expansion of government power at the expense of individual liberty.   Whether the issue is the current "relief and recovery" boondoggle, trans-fat and caloric i...

Finding Jesus in an Anthill from Russell Moore on Vimeo. This sermon, “Finding Jesus in an Anthill: Following Christ through Wisdom with Money” (Prov 6:6-11), was originally preached on Sunday, January 25, 2009 at Highview Baptist Church in Louisville, Ky. You can find more sermons and o...