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Common Sense

Republican presidential aspirant John Kasich stirred up angry words from women's organizations and the Democratic Party by his response to a...

A Superior Vision

Last month, I celebrated the beginning of my 81st year of life. For nearly half that time, I have been writing a nationally syndicated column on...

Rights Versus Wishes

Here is what presidential aspirant Sen. Bernie Sanders said: "I believe that health care is a right of all people." President Barack Obama...

Attacking Our Nation's Founders

During Sen. Bernie Sanders' campaign visit to Liberty University, he told the students that our nation was created on racist principles. Students...

Campus Lunacy, Part II

Professor Victor Davis Hanson is a classicist and historian with the Hoover Institution at Stanford University. He recently wrote an article...

Campus Lunacy

The American Council of Trustees and Alumni publishes occasional reports on what college students know. Nearly 10 percent of the college graduates...

Trade Deficit Angst

Let's look at the political angst over trade deficits. A trade deficit is when people in one country buy more from another country than the other...

Our Forgotten Statesman

George Washington, our first president, is probably our greatest and most decent statesman. We celebrate Washington's Birthday each February. But...

The Seen and Unseen

Claude Frederic Bastiat (1801-50) -- a French classical liberal theorist, political economist and member of the French National Assembly -- wrote...

What Is the Fair Share of Taxes?

Presidential hopefuls Hillary Clinton and Sen. Bernie Sanders, along with President Obama, say they want high-income earners, otherwise known as...