There are some people who believe that a national sales tax would be better than an income tax. There are plenty more who will disagree with that statement entirely. Neal Boortz, a syndicated talk show host, and US House Representative John Linder have teamed up to write a book about making a "fair" [...]

This is probably one of the most interesting studies I've read recently about education.
A great success story is taking place beneath the government and media’s radar. Independent private schools in the world's poorest villages and slums are providing students with higher quality education than their public-sector counterparts. A groundbreaking study released today by the Cato [...]

One of the biggest failures of government officials and the public is the failure to recognize the long term effects of their actions and over-emphasize the short term results for certain groups. Be it in economic or social issues, this is the one area where lobbyists, politicians and the mob will probably never cease [...]

This is probably one of the best articles to concisely and easily explain the current budget situation in this country.

Congress has outspent its own income in 45 of the last 50 years, thereby running up deficits by over $5 trillion. But $4 trillion of those deficits were in just the last 20 years. And then [...]

Amazing.

The 62-year-old retired city councillor from Kingston, Ont., paid his $230 Visa bill last month in 985 instalments, often pennies at a time, to protest against the fact that his bank outsourced some of its credit card processing to a U.S. company. Mr. Rogers said he asked Vancouver-based Citizens Bank of Canada several times to [...]

I was just reading a great article about Che and Castro.. didn't know some of the stuff in there, however I *did* make a connection to a game I used to play! I was reading the article.. I saw "Che and Castro" together.. then I saw "guerrilla". Kept reading a bit.. then [...]