Last night, Scott Brown won a Cinderella story victory for the senate seat left vacant by Ted Kennedy’s recent death. Democratic pundits are saying that this reflects the country’s dismay with the lack of economic growth, which they claim began with the Bush Administration. Republicans are saying that this election, in a traditionally blue state, [...]

On the day after Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez nationalized a French retailer operating in Venezuela, Mr. Chavez has accused the United State’s aid mission to Haiti as a military occupation. While Chavez continues in his peevish teasing of American actions abroad it is worth noting that engaging allies only goes so far. While Bush was [...]

Rating: 7 Out Of 10 PhilosoGuys Less is More The Hurt Locker is memorable for what it does not do. Unlike contemporary war movies, Hurt Locker does not take sides and does not pass judgment. In fact, one may even contend that it is not a true war movie: there are no grandiose shootouts and [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates recently said that the US Army’s internal defense posture and procedures had not been improved upon since the rise of the War on Terror. The army has been criticized, for many years now, for allegedly continuing in a Cold War stratagem. While some have wrongly called for the gutting of our [...]

In 2008, then President Bush enacted the Troubled Asset Relief Program to save America’s financial industry and, the logic goes, the American economy. Whether or not you agree with this policy from a philosophical standpoint is now irrelevant (though I think that businesses should take responsibility for their bad practices). TARP remains in the spotlight. [...]