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Creators Syndicate - The decades-long campaign of Ron Paul to have the Government Accountability Office do a full audit of the Federal Reserve now has 313 sponsors in the House. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - The two most important questions for society, according to the Greek philosopher Plato, are these: What will we teach our children? And who will teach them? Left-wing celebrities have teamed up with one of America's most radical historians to take control of the classroom in the name of "social justice." Parents, beware: This Hollywood-backed Marxist education project may be coming to a school near you. Full Story »

The Empty Gesture of Copenhagen Full Story »

In Tuesday's primary election, Massachusetts Democrats chose as their Senate nominee a woman who kept a clearly innocent man in prison in order to advance her political career. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Some memories that still define the warmest moments of American television are the long-running animated Christmas specials. There's "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" (first aired in 1964), "A Charlie Brown Christmas" (1965) and "Frosty the Snowman" (1969). Many grown-ups remember all of those shows once aired just on CBS. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - How low can they go? The desperate Democratic peddlers of a government health care takeover have proclaimed an insurance "holocaust in America" (Fla. Full Story »

What can we learn from Climategate -- i.e., the scandal in which hacked e-mails revealed apparent attempts by official climate scientists to manufacture a consensus on global warming by fudgung with the data and punishing dissidents? Full Story »

If John McCain had won last year's presidential election, Americans would still have to adjust to a changing world order. Our elected leaders have spent the past several decades telling less-developed nations to be more like us and, by golly, some of them have gotten the message. So the United States no longer stands alone astride the globe. Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- Oh, the poor Swiss! Usually they're in deep water -- though many of them live upward of 10,000 feet in the air -- because they won't reveal some poor Kuwaiti's or Saudi's wealth stashed away in a Swiss bank account. Other times, they're the object of jealousy for their prosperity and their self-righteous, Calvinist ways. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - The unexpected victory of Republican Jimmy Higdon in the Kentucky state Senate special election — despite a 2-to-1 Democratic registration advantage — is another fire bell in the night that national Democrats are going to ignore. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - At last week's Job Summit, there was talk of a second stimulus package, of tax credits for small businesses that hire new workers, of an Infrastructure Bank to select national priority pubic works projects like the Hoover Dam and TVA of yesteryear. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - "Tiger's finished." Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - I like Hanukkah. It's a very nice holiday, as Jewish holidays go; one of the few where the Jews actually won, as opposed to having the Temple destroyed, or fleeing the divided sea, or being spared from the evil Haman. Usually, it's enough if we survive. Often, we don't even do that. Full Story »

In a famous sermon, "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God," Jonathan Edwards once warned his fellow Americans: "The wrath of God is like great waters that are dammed for the present; they increase more and more, and rise higher and higher." True, he said, "the floods of God's vengeance have been withheld; but your guilt in the meantime is constantly increasing, and you are every day treasuring up more wrath; the waters are continually rising and waxing more and more mighty." Full Story »

WASHINGTON -- The American people got a good glimpse of the chaos in Iran in 1979 when Americans were held hostage for more than a terrible year -- but perhaps you really had to be in the Middle East to see and feel what a profound effect the "Islamic Revolution" had in that era on the entire region. Full Story »

My mother still has the telephone number that rang up the avocado green rotary phone, matched to the kitchen appliances. Actually, the phone number was old by then, dating to my elementary school days. The avocado kitchen upgrade didn't come along until I was in high school. Full Story »

As we now know (and by "we" I mean "everyone with access to the Internet"), the University of East Anglia's Climatic Research Unit (CRU) has just been caught ferociously manipulating the data about the Earth's temperature. Full Story »

Creators Syndicate - Evading the challenges of climate change — and the human responsibility to save the planet — is simple enough even for the laziest citizen. Full Story »