A liberal arts education is a degree in B.S., and I’m not talking about a Bachelor of Science. (more)

Ron Meyer - Ron Meyer hosts We the People Internet Radio Show and writes a weekly column for Human Events. He is a student at Principia College and a former National Journalism Center intern who has also written political opinion for AOL News and the Santa Barbara News-Press.
No one vying for the 2012 GOP presidential nomination stood out this weekend at CPAC. The (potential) candidates who showed up -- Governors Haley Barbour, Mitch Daniels, Tim Pawlenty, Gary Johnson and Mitt Romney, Senators John Thune and Rick Santorum, Rep. Ron Paul, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, Ambassador John Bolton, Donald Trump, and former Godfather’s CEO Herman Cain -- all improved their stocks, but to no avail. (more)
Tea Partiers and Republicans in Missouri can breathe a sigh of relief. A competent, articulate conservative has entered the race to face Sen. Claire McCaskill (D-MO) in 2012. (more)
The growing consensus about National Public Radio (NPR) is that it ought to lose its federal funding for precipitously firing Juan Williams for making a controversial statement: a clear violation of the First Amendment. (more)
As November approaches, Republicans should consider their choices for the next House speaker. If they succeed in showing Nancy Pelosi the proverbial door, Republicans will have an historic opportunity to present and effect their best ideas. (more)
America faces a mammoth debt crisis. Imagine if the Berlin Wall were reconstructed with stacks of $100 dollar bills. Using the US national debt, we could build two walls each 67 miles long, 12 feet tall, and eight inches thick. This $13.4 trillion debt wall symbolizes the amassing barrier standing between my generation and the future of the American dream. (more)
Rod Blagovich’s trial, Snooki’s taxed tan, and Brett Favre’s unretiring are all apparently more newsworthy than Iran’s acquisition of nuclear power. Nice job, media. (more)
“But how is this legal plunder to be identified? Quite simply. See if the law takes from some persons what belongs to them, and gives it to other persons to whom it does not belong. See if the law benefits one citizen at the expense of another by doing what the citizen himself cannot do without committing a crime.” -- Frederic Bastiat, The Law (more)
As November approaches, the beltway wonders if the Republicans will produce a new "Contract with America." How about this? Adopt the Constitution as the platform. (more)
How to mask any failed policy: claim we would be worse off without it. (more)
Imagine if the Berlin Wall was reconstructed with stacks of $100 dollar bills. If we used the US national debt, we could build this wall twice. (more)
The saying goes: "Those who can, do; those that can't, teach." Either that, or they become the President or a Supreme Court justice. (more)
“Re·cid·i·vism [ri-ˈsi-də-ˌvi-zəm] noun: a tendency to relapse into a previous condition or mode of behavior; especially: relapse into criminal behavior.”—Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary (more)

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