Economic Sense

Thanksgiving was not about the Pilgrims embracing diversity and thanking the Indians (otherwise known as Native Americans) for helping them ...

(reprint from Nov '06) George Washington certainly felt that the celebration of Thanksgiving could not be divorced from any religious co...

In the book "What's So Great About America" Dinesh D'Souza points out that the three truly western institutions of science...

With approaching elections, debates about embryonic stem cell research have been given lots of attention. While issues of ethics have been b...

A colleague, who certainly carries views of the more liberal and left wing flavor commented on how out of bounds our state’s concealed carry...

"Would I prefer that the world was nothing but organic agriculture? Yes. But on the other hand GM crops have a much higher yield per ac...

While organic foods provide us with a sense of nostalgia for 19th century agriculture, its claims of safety, sustainability, and ‘greenness’...

Roundup Ready technology (GM) has allowed for 5.4 million pounds of glyphosate herbicide to substitute for 7.2 million pounds of other chemi...

Many pundits try to characterize global warming as a golem created by greedy corporations. Much environmental policy is developed under this...

Just as many of the models that are predicated on anthropogenic global warming are built on poor assumptions, many of the policies proposed ...

Many of the projections that the media, rock stars, and grant greedy academics are using to build a ‘consensus’ on human influenced (lets ca...

According to the European Union, food classified as GM contains genetic material that has been altered in a way that does not occur naturall...

The debate over president Bush's possible veto of legislation regarding federal funding of stem cell research has been falsely character...

Why are groups like CSPI and Green Peace so opposed to transgenic crops? Perhaps the most egregious perception that they try to perpetuate a...

CSPI and groups like them are very hypocritical to go after agribusiness the way they have KFC. Our food would be much healthier if these gr...

The Center for Science in the Public Interest is after KFC for using hydrogenated oils in their food products (resulting in trans-fatty acid...

Currently there is a school in Pennsylvania that is entertaining making it against the rules for parents to have lunch with their kids on th...

According to Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, oil and gas prices have increased because supply has been unable to keep up with demand. He als...

If individuals do not want to be exposed to cigarette smoke, then they have the choice not to patronize places that allow smoking. This is n...

Review: In my first article regarding price gouging I discussed how fuel markets are characterized by a Nash Equilibrium strategy that preve...