Michael D. Brown

This is hard to fathom, but according to an article on Yahoo News today, a controversy is brewing over three reputable Christian organizations, which are based in North America, whose efforts have ousted the words “Father” and “Son” from new Bibles. Wycliffe Bible Translators, Summer Institute of Linguistics (SIL) and Frontiers are under fire for [...]

In that famous episode of Happy Days we get the modern euphemism of “jumping the shark” or that point at which something moves beyond relevance to the absurd, useless, or beyond recovery. I think Juan Williams and racism have now jumped the shark. In an opinion piece in The Hill Mr. Williams lists “code words” [...]

It’s Friday Night in the Big Town of Denver, Colorado, so time for another caption this contest. Tonight I’ll be interviewing Barry Fey, the rock concert promoter who has sold more concert tickets than any promoter in history. He’s written a new book called Backstage Past which has a collector’s First Edition poster of a [...]

The State of the Union speech has been given and you’ve seen all the clips and read all the analysis. But what you may have not have read yet is the State of the Union speech that should have been given. John Stossel of Fox News has provided that. If only we had a politician [...]

Charles Murray has come out with a new book, Coming Apart in which he analyzes the difference between the upper middle class American and the middle-class American. Although such generalizations are difficult to make, the book posits an interesting question – what is the effect of those in upper echelon of American society who actively [...]

President Obama is giving his third State of the Union speech as I write this. I’m barely listening to it because it will be the same platitudes from all of his other speeches. This annual spectacle is truly a nonevent, and I would prefer Presidents resort to the pre-television tradition of simply submitting a written [...]

The political season has arrived in full force and people are already harping about getting the money out of politics. That statement is so trite because without money, the political process would not work. Money enables candidates to spread their message, print materials, buy advertising on television, newspapers, websites. Money allows candidates to hire researchers [...]

It’s Friday Night in the Big Town on the Michael Brown Show so time for another “Caption This” contest. President Obama just went to Disney World to promote tourism. I couldn’t find any photos of him with Mickey Mouse, but here is one of him speaking in front of the Cinderella Castle. Give me your [...]

The economy of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) was based on a system of state ownership of the means of production, collective farming, industrial manufacturing and centralized administrative planning. The economy was characterised by state control of investment, public ownership of industrial assets, and during the last 20 years of its existence, pervasive [...]

Protesting the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) an appropriately misnamed piece of legislation designed to give the federal government censorship over the Internet, former Senator Chris Dodd, now the CEO of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA) today showed us just how perverted some people view the Constitution. Wikipedia and other Internet sites went [...]