Commentary - America's Future

By AF Editors • Feb 12,2006

The top ten reasons to cut corporate welfare

The federal budget is too big. It's way too big. George W. Bush has called for total spending this year of $2.47 trillion. Here's why corporate welfare should be the...

By Kelly Jane Torrance • Feb 05,2006

Music from the inside out

Music, we often hear, expresses emotion that verbal language cannot. It may be the most mysterious of the arts. “As long as I can remember, music has moved me,” says...

By AF Editors • Feb 05,2006

Private or public, pension plans are failing

Delphi auto parts recently filed for bankruptcy because it couldn't keep up with its pension obligations. How long before the same thing happens to America?

By Michael Brendan Dougherty • Jan 29,2006

Searching for style

Andre 3000 and Fonzworth Bentley, the gradual disappearance of casual Fridays, the spate of new men’s magazines, dandyism.net, a “Seersucker Day” in the U.S. Senate — signs point to a...

By AF Editors • Jan 22,2006

Our miserly uncle

The federal government owns 29.6 percent of the land in the U.S. But this land is hardly public; Uncle Sam likes to keep it fenced in.

By David Freddoso • Jan 22,2006

Looting Wal-Mart

To those of you who wished me good luck in the New Year, let me tell you how grateful I am. Since January 1, I have won 42 lotteries in...