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When hunting was the major source of food, hunters often used stalking horses as a means of sneaking up on their prey.
One of the most challenging and important jobs for an economics professor is to teach students how little we know and can possibly know.
I am not nearly so coldhearted and unsympathetic toward the mainstream media as some of my conservative friends, such as Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin, Sean Hannity, Tucker Carlson, Chris Plante and Ann Coulter.
Leftists have had their greatest successes in undermining American values on the nation's college campuses.
Along with tax cuts, tax simplification should be on the agenda.
As George Orwell said, "Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them." Many stupid ideas originate with academics on college campuses.
Let's throw out a few numbers so we can put in perspective the NFL players taking a knee during the playing of the national anthem.
Our college-age population consists mostly of 18- to 30-year-olds, and likewise our armed forces. I wonder whether they shared common responses to the 2016 presidential election.
That the problems of today's black Americans are a result of a legacy of slavery, racial discrimination and poverty has achieved an axiomatic status, thought to be self-evident and beyond question.
The largest threat to our prosperity is government spending that far exceeds the authority enumerated in Article 1, Section 8 of the U.S. Constitution.
Allow me to speculate as to the whys of this statue removal craze, which we might call statucide.
Earlier this month, The New York Times ran an article titled "U.S. Rights Unit Shifts to Study Antiwhite Bias" on its front page.
Have politicians and the news media told the correct and complete story about what happened, or have Americans been deliberately misled? Let's look at it.
Google fired software engineer James Damore for writing a 10-page memo critical of the company's diversity policy.
August is the month when parents bid farewell to not only their college-bound youngsters but also a sizable chunk of cash for tuition.
For the most part, people share common goals. Most of us want poor people to enjoy higher standards of living, greater traffic safety, more world peace, greater racial harmony, cleaner air and water, and less crime.
Here's part of President Donald Trump's speech in Poland: "The fundamental question of our time is whether the West has the will to survive."
Too many people believe that slavery is a "peculiar institution." That's what Kenneth Stampp called slavery in his book, "Peculiar Institution: Slavery in the Ante-Bellum South." But slavery is by no means peculiar, odd or unusual. It was common among ancient peoples such as the Egyptians, Babylonians, Assyrians, Hittites, Greeks, Persians, Armenians and many others.
There are political movements to push the federal minimum hourly wage to $15. Raising the minimum wage has popular support among Americans. Their reasons include fighting poverty, preventing worker exploitation and providing a living wage. For the most part, the intentions behind the support for raising the minimum wage are decent. But when we evaluate public policy, the effect of the policy is far more important than intentions. So let's examine the effects of increases in minimum wages.
Is there no limit to the level of disgusting behavior on college campuses that parents, taxpayers, donors and legislators will accept? Colleges have become islands of intolerance, and as with fish, the rot begins at the head.
