('76 Editor) You have to read closely to see it, so elegant are the euphemisms, but the company that owns the company that owns the Denver Post is taking bankruptcy to get out from under $1 billion in loans it can't repay. ("Pact lets Post's owner cu...
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“If a foreign power had done this, we would consider it an act of war.” So said a national blue-ribbon panel, outraged by bad education policies. I say the same about Colorado Democrats’ economic mismanagement. ...
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Although Soviet dictator Nikita Khrushchev overreached in 1959 with his threat to Americans, "We will bury you," another of his predictions seems ominously resonant with trends in US politics half a century later. For Khrushchev also ...
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Just last week, Vice President Biden informed us that the Obama administration had underestimated the severity of our country’s economic situation. On Monday, Rhode Island Senator Sheldon Whitehouse (D) informed us that another stimulus b...
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This is truly unbelievable. House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and 14 fellow Democrats have introduced the Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration Act of 2009. Now we not only have the government competing (through Chrysle...
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One hundred students from high schools far and wide are with us on the CCU campus this week for "Freedom 101," a short course on free-market economics conducted by the Foundation for Economic Education, New York-based granddaddy of all the liber...
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For 500 years the Ottoman Empire had dominated the Middle East and the Balkans. Their domain stretched from the Atlantic to the Persian Gulf and Indian Ocean, from the Sahara to the Crimea. Their vast armies several times besieged Vienna ...
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Why did England have such powerful economic growth in the 17th and 18th century, while France languished? Why did England lead the way in technological achievement, advancing into the Industrial Revolution, while France remained mired in the pa...
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