1+ day, 12+ hour ago  (357+ words) What does Julius Caesar have to do with North Carolina's state seal and the Halifax Resolves? The Halifax State Historic Site will soon be celebrating the 250th anniversary of the April 12, 1776, signing of the Halifax Resolves. Representatives from the site announced…...

1+ day, 18+ hour ago  (240+ words) Editors at Issues and Insights highlight a misguided response to rising gas prices. Gasoline prices are spiking everywhere, particularly in California, with premium coming dangerously close to $9 a gallon'last week in one Los Angeles neighborhood.'So'what's'an appointed bureaucrat to do?...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (275+ words) Policy Analyst for the Center for Food, Power, and Life, John Locke Foundation Modern agriculture is highly energy intensive. Diesel fuel powers'nearly every'stage of crop production, including soil preparation, planting, irrigation, harvesting, and on-farm transportation. As a result, fluctuations in…...

2+ week, 18+ hour ago  (425+ words) Armond White writes for National Review Online about a lesson to be learned from the latest Academy Awards ceremony. Everyone ought to know that the Academy Awards stopped being about "excellence" many years ago. But now, after Paul Thomas Anderson's…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (224+ words) To see everything in person " the thick smoke arising from each volley of musket fire and the even larger clouds of smoke coming from the cannons amid their huge booms " opened my eyes to the realities of the "fog of…...

2+ week, 2+ day ago  (346+ words) Jon Levine writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a bad idea in the nation's largest city. New York City's controversial congestion pricing program, which charges drivers a toll to enter midtown and lower Manhattan, contains several "mitigation efforts" and…...

4+ week, 18+ hour ago  (415+ words) Chris Bray writes for the Federalist about lessons Americans should learn from a high-profile, high-dollar California government boondoggle. After decades of effort and $15 billion in spending, California's plan to connect Los Angeles to San Francisco with a high-speed rail line…...

1+ mon, 18+ hour ago  (445+ words) Andrew Stiles writes for the Washington Free Beacon about a significant development in cable television news. Paramount is closer than ever to acquiring CNN parent company Warner Bros. after Netflix declined to raise its bid for the media conglomerate. That's…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (414+ words) Editors at National Review Online assess the media-driven controversy over celebrating Americans" Olympic hockey victory. The U.S. men"s Olympic hockey team didn"t just bring home the first gold medal for the program since the 1980 "Miracle on Ice; they did…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago  (352+ words) Charles Cooke of National Review Online analyzes a furor over members of the American men's Olympic hockey team attending the State of the Union address. [I]n their most essential form, most of the complaints about the hockey team's willingness…...