Milton Friedman

Echoing Texas' two Republican presidential candidates, Gov. Rick Perry and Rep. Ron Paul, the top four Republicans in Congress have written a letter to Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke telling him to keep his hands off the money supply. The authors'...

Many Republicans think of themselves as followers of Milton Friedman and Ayn Rand. But at the South Carolina debate, they came face to face with someone who really is -- and they seemed bewildered. That someone was former New Mexico Gov. Gary Johnson,...

Milt talks with Seth Lerer, author of the new book, Inventing English: A Portable History of the Language. (7/23/07) Inventing English (80:03) Milt honors the life and work of the eminent economist Milton Friedman. Milt is joined by two friends and...

KABC AM talk-show host writes from behind-the-scenes at the recent CPAC convention....

We begin this morning with a story highlighting the ongoing tension between managing costs and winning re-election. State House Minority Leader Frank Dermody, D-Allegheny, tells our friends at Capitolwire that the state needs to get smarter about its...

The U.S. Supreme Court today upheld an Arizona tax-credit scholarship program that had been challenged as an unconstitutional way to funnel public money to private, religious schools. But the divided court rejected that argument, noting the money for...

Full text of his introductory speech to the state party convention....

It's not clear what precipitated this convergence, but the opinion pages of the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times and the Washington Post all devoted space last weekend to op-eds ruminating on contemporary conservatism. For those who missed this odd...

The basic text I used for the lessons from the oeuvre of Peter Drucker, the subject of my last column for calendar 2009, is "The Essential Drucker," a 2001 digest of Drucker's writings dating to 1954, selected by himself. It's......

Wake up sleepy heads! Here are your morning must-reads, should-reads and wanna-reads: -- Is "Pirates Cove Peach" a Ben & Jerry's flavor? Or a Pottery Barn paint chip? The cool kids over at Mental Floss.com put together this quiz that......

Former U.S. Rep. Tom Campbell announced this morning that he is entering the race to unseat U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer, confirming rumors that have flared this week that he was leaving the California gubernatorial contest. Calling the nation's fiscal path......

Bruce Jarchow (left), Tim Kazurinsky and George Wendt perform at Second City in 1979. View more photos of famous Second City alumni HERE. George Wendt apologized for "a serious underrehearsed show." Tim Kazurinsky marveled at two sold-out e.t.c houses of....