Jasper, Texas — Along with Rosewood, the Tuskegee Experiment, the murder of Emmett Till and the beating of Rodney King, Jasper shows that “racism is alive and well in America.” That, at least, remains the mantra of many black leaders. In Jasper, three white supremacists with ties to the Aryan Nation and the Ku Klux [...]
Archive | June, 1998
The Kyoto Politics, Round 2
Candice Crandall (1998.06.13 ) Environment
In Washington, D.C., there’s nothing quite like a little nuclear saber-rattling in Third World countries to put lead in the old Eberhard-Faber (pencil, for those overseas). Two days after the U.S. Chamber of Commerce in Washington, D.C., hosted a half-day, packed-house denunciation of the security implications of the Kyoto Accord, the U.S. House of Representatives [...]
Clarence Thomas: Victim of Racism…by Blacks?
Larry Elder (1998.06.12 ) Politics
For its July Luncheon in Memphis, Tenn., the black National Bar Association invites Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to speak. But wait! The judicial branch of the association later votes 12-3 to rescind the invitation. A member tells the Richmond, Va., Times-Dispatch that the association revoked the offer. But not so fast! The black judge [...]
The Kyoto Protocol is a Complete Fraud
Glenn Woiceshyn (1998.06.12 ) Environment
In primitive cultures, witch-doctors encouraged tribal chiefs to sacrifice people to mystical beliefs and deities. The Aztecs slaughtered thousands per year hoping to secure good weather from a mythical sun god. Power lusters throughout history have discovered mysticism to be an effective tool to sacrifice gullible people to their power lust. The global warming scare [...]
In Reason We Trust
Joseph Kellard (1998.06.10 ) Politics
Revisionist history threatens America’s freedoms. And among the people who use its methodology of setting arbitrary standards, dropping relevant context, and lying — for example, multiculturalists, feminists, socialists — are America’s self-proclaimed patriots and defenders: conservative Christians. The Godless Constitution, a compact book by two Cornell University professors, political scientist Isaac Kramnick and historian R. [...]
Gun Control and The Right to Self-defense
Adam Mossoff (1998.06.05 ) Guns, Politics
As a gun owner, collector, and aspiring legal philosopher, the issue of gun control fascinates me. In the early 1990s, when Sarah Brady’s Handgun Control, Inc. was on a lobbying rampage, and the government was banning firearms left and right, I wrote a lengthy article on the topic. The public fanfare surrounding the topic mostly [...]