Jacob's

Like many people, I remember vividly the moment when I first heard about JFK's assassination. As a teenager, I was impressed by JFK, and...

Obama to nominate Bernanke for second term as Fed chairman. This is only natural. It's true, Bernanke is a Republican, and was nominate...

A compelling and lucid article claims that much of modern economics is quackery . Given the mad stampede of money printing that all governme...

At a talk given by J. Hansen at the Climate Change Congress, “Global Risks, Challenges &Decisions”, Copenhagen, Denmark, March 11, 2009...

Roger Simon is writing about TBDS - Tea Party Derangement Syndrome - the opposition of the liberals to the tea party protests. People are p...

An amazing story about the singer (and painter) Lloyd Marcus. He was 19 years an alcoholic, and 15 years homeless, and now he became the st...

An excellent article by Yuval Levin capturing the meaning and potential of Sarah Palin. The reaction of the intellectual elite to Sarah Pa...

Here are some comments on the book "Tried by war" about the way President Lincoln run the Civil War, mostly about the military s...

The communist parties, these days, have changed. They no longer advocate the things they used to: nationalizing all means of production, or ...

An incredible tale from an insider about the clueless, scandalous, ignorant way the banking system works. "The era that defined Wall S...

An important speech by Vaclav Klaus , president of the Czhech Republic. ...the well-known Oregon petition which warned and keeps warning ag...

Artists toe the party line. That's the name of an article in the NYTimes about an art exhibition in NY showing art from China's pas...