Alan Caruba's Past Articles

461 articles

The Principles of Taxation

published: January 06, 2013

“NYSR to Sell Itself in $8.2 Billion Deal” was the lead story in the December 21, 2012 edition of The Wall Street Journal.” “The New York Stock Exchange, the cornerstone of...

Just How Awful will 2013 Be?

published: December 30, 2012

Pundits and experts of every description love to predict and pontificate. That they are often famously wrong doesn’t get the attention it deserves. The Great Depression began on October 29, ...

Living in a Forest

published: December 23, 2012

Driving around my hometown and surrounding communities in New Jersey, a familiar sight has been tree stumps, the wreckage left behind by Hurricane Sandy. Having lived here with few breaks my entire...

It's Time to Buy a Gun

published: December 19, 2012

Over the past year I endured a hefty measure of stress due to a “noisy neighbor” in the apartment adjacent to mine that caused me to lose thirty pounds. I could never enter my bedroom w...

Why Obama Should Not Be Allowed to Take the Oath of Office Again

published: December 19, 2012

If anyone had read any of the many books that have examined President Obama’s life and his many questionable qualifications for office, including a Social Security number that appears to have...

UN Treaties Erode US Sovereignty, Exert Control

published: December 14, 2012

Following the end of World War II in 1945, the idea of a United Nations, an international body devoted to avoiding future wars must have had a lot of appeal despite the fact that, not that many yea...

Doing Their Best to Kill Christmas Cheer

published: December 09, 2012

The one thing you can count on during the Christmas season is an avalanche of media-driven scare campaigns by environmental and self-appointed consumer protection groups that are intended to ruin i...

America Went Over the Fiscal Cliff Long Ago

published: December 02, 2012

I doubt that President Obama will compromise with the House Republicans on anything that might be done to avoid the January 2nd “fiscal cliff” that kicks in with higher taxes for e...

Fear, Everywhere, Fear

published: November 28, 2012

If my emails and the headlines I am reading indicate anything, there is widespread fear among Americans that something terrible has occurred with the reelection of President Obama. Not all American...

California is Destroying Itself. The U.S. is Next.

published: November 18, 2012

There’s a very entertaining, but terrifying book by Laer Pearce, “Crazifornia: Tales from the Tarnished State—How California is destroying itself and Why It Matters to America.&rd...;

A Tsunami of Lies

published: November 18, 2012

I don’t know why anyone, least of all the press, expects to get the truth about the Benghazi attack on September 11, 2012—an interesting date for an attack, don’t you think? Of co...

More False BPA "Science" By News Release

published: November 12, 2012

News releases trumpeting not merely inaccurate, but false, science have become a way of life for Americans and others around the world. There is rarely, if ever, any fact checking done by the edito...

Risky Election Post Mortem

published: November 12, 2012

The delight of leftists over winning Tuesday’s election and granting Barack Obama four more years in which to wreak his havoc on the nation will only be rivaled by their glee in the upcoming ...

America Commits Suicide

published: November 12, 2012

I had hoped that the majority of voters would elect Mitt Romney, but instead of a man of character they chose charisma. They ignored four years of failure and deception. In advertising, they say &...

Vote to Save the Nation!

published: November 06, 2012

No previous election has ever held the fate of the nation in its hands since the reelection of Abraham Lincoln in the midst of the Civil War. If Obama is elected, he will continue his agenda to dri...

Hurricane Sandy's Message to America

published: November 04, 2012

When Mother Nature demonstrates her extraordinary power, I always hope that people will draw a lesson from it, but they never seem to. Hurricane Sandy is just the latest example of the futility and...

Revisiting Voting Blocs. Are They More Fluid These Days?

published: November 04, 2012

It has long been a tradition in American politics to speak of voting blocs, but in an era of 24/7 news and instant communications, that may be less likely as an indicator of who votes for who. For...

Poverty Nation

published: October 28, 2012

Lyndon B. Johnson, President from 1963 to 1969, is probably unknown to the generations since then except for having escalated the Vietnam War. A memorial in Washington, D.C., is a sad reminder of t...

Christian Arabs Targeted Throughout the Middle East

published: October 28, 2012

The nations of the Middle East have been steadily forcing out Christian Arabs that have lived there for centuries, often in the most brutal fashion. This is the hallmark of Islam that has no tolera...

The Great Ethanol Scam

published: October 15, 2012

The rocketing costs of gasoline and the price of corn being paid worldwide are the result of U.S. government mandates requiring the inclusion of ethanol in the gasoline all Americans must use. The ...

Can Obama's Foreign Policies Suck Any Worse?

published: October 14, 2012

Other than the sound bites on the TV news, I doubt that most people have actually read Mitt Romney’s Monday speech at the Virginia Military Institute. It was extraordinary and demonstrated a ...

EPA's "Science" Evokes Nazi Death Camp Memories

published: October 07, 2012

The “EPA has admitted to a federal court that it asks human guinea pigs to sacrifice their lives for regulatory purposes—and $12 per hour.” That was a recent news item reported by...

Obama's Tyrannical Executive Orders

published: September 30, 2012

A September 24 a Wall Street Journal editorial warned that President Obama is moving to control the Internet by executive order. “Any day now, the White House will issue an executive order on...

From Haile Selassie to Bibi Netanyahu

published: September 30, 2012

On June 20, 1936, Emperor Haile Selassie of Ethiopia addressed the League of Nations following the annexation of his nation by Italy the previous year, after Mussolini’s army had invaded. Bot...

Obama is Hope-Less

published: September 26, 2012

On October 9, 2009, barely nine months after his inauguration on January 20th, the Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to President Obama. At the time, the committee said it was being awarded “for ...