The Stockholm Syndrome at the Wall Street Journal?

The markets, big business and Wall Street have been held hostage by politicians and regulators for so long that the hostages are starting to identify with their kidnappers. How else can you explain the October 30th Wall Street Journal front pager, breathlessly...

John Allen Muhammad: Convert to Violence?

It came as no surprise to learn that the lead suspect as the Washington, D.C.,–area sniper is John Allen Muhammad, a Black-American who converted to Islam about 17 years ago. Nor that seven years ago he provided security for Louis Farrakhan’s...

If State Government Doesn’t Do It, Who Will?

Question 1 on the Massachusetts ballot would abolish the state income tax. If enacted it will eliminate as much as $9 billion in government revenue and force a radical downsizing of the state’s budget and operations. That is exactly the purpose for which its...

End the Massachusetts State Income Tax

This month, American voters will head to the polls for midterm elections. Though the names on the ballots have changed since the last election, proponents of limited, accountable government will again be forced to choose between the same contenders: Candidate No Way...

Playing UN “Survivor”

If surviving in the world most fundamentally involves producing the values from nature that are needed to sustain human life, then the hit CBS series, Survivor, hardly lives up to its name. In the current season debut, one exceptional team member, John, found the...

Disgruntled Conservatives

“A Record Year for Academic Pork,” said the headline on the front page of The Chronicle of Higher Education, the leading trade publication of the academic world. Whether representatives of farmers, corporate welfare recipients, and other beneficiaries of...