Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Aug 03,2007

Notes on the Scene: What a Way to Start a Week

Not a Lazy Sunday for Bush President Bush signed legislation Sunday that would allow the executive branch greater power to conduct wiretaps on international calls. Such wiretaps would not have to be...

By Dorian Davis • Aug 01,2007

Exclusive Interview: Mike Gravel, Liberaltarian?

WASHINGTON — Ron Paul is the easy response to libertarian calls for a candidate with a passion for downsizing government. But it remains unclear who the much discussed “liberaltarians” could...

By AF Editors • Jul 30,2007

How to Stop Cars From Backing Over Kids

According to a National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimate, each year at least 183 people — mostly children and the elderly — die when a motor vehicle backs-over them....

By John Tabin • Jul 27,2007

The Roundup: Hillary’s Diplomacy, Biden’s Guns, and Fred’s Wife

On Monday the Democratic presidential contenders gathered in South Carolina for a debate in which questions were submitted to YouTube by ordinary citizens and selected by CNN. The format lent...

By David White • Jul 25,2007

Smoking Heals

Imagine if Democratic lawmakers sought to provide handouts to the children of middle class voters by instituting a tax on America’s poorest citizens. Implausible? Think again. Just last week, the...

By Dorian Davis • Jul 23,2007

The Record Industry Is Watching You

“I have no privacy,” sang one-hit wonder Rockwell, as he crept around the long, shadowy hallways of his eerie, empty house, under the watchful eyes of intruders, both real and...