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Man vs. Nature

For the first time in American history, the government is ordering the destruction of a dam–for environmental reasons. This July, Edwards Dam, a small hydroelectric facility on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, will be torn down by the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission. Its crime? It is blocking the path of fish that swim upstream […]

Are Cops Killing Blacks?

Before the horrific shooting at the Littleton, Colo., high school, the media sat around like the Maytag repairman on Prozac. Monica’s gone, impeachment and trial over with, the Jon-Benet Ramsey mystery dormant. Oh, sure, there’s the occasional O.J. flare-up, but, for the most part, until Kosovo came along, one could almost hear the sound of […]

The Government’s Assault on Sexual Pleasure

Six woman recently file suite against the state of Alabama over a law it enacted last year regarding vibrators and other sex toys. The law states that selling or distributing “any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the stimulation of human genital organs” is a misdemeanor punishable by a […]

A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and “Naming Names”

The following statement originally appeared as an advertisement, placed by Elia Kazan in the New York Times, April 12, 1952. In the past weeks intolerable rumors about my political position have been circulating in New York and Hollywood. I want to make my stand clear: I believe that Communist activities confront the people of this […]

Minimum Wage: Yet Another Republican Retreat

Every so often, without fail, the Republicans remind me why I don’t join the party. A recovering drug and alcohol abuser, living in the streets, recently told me the following story. One day, in desperate need of money, he went to the owner of a convenience store. The street guy pointed to the dirty, bottle-strewn […]

End the Fraudulent Social Security Program Now

Since 1935, the United States government has been operating a program that would be illegal if run by a private citizen or company — tarred as a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. Social Security, a scheme both impractical and immoral, is a smear on America’s principles of free enterprise. To defend the liberties which have enabled our […]

The IMF in Brazil: The Emperor Has No Clothes!

I’m not sure what’s more infuriating: witnessing Brazil’s drawn out slow-motion crash and burn after an endless string of stupid policies over the past year; the sudden breakdown in devaluative stupidity; or enduring the lame economic analysis that ensued in the days after devaluation. Initial reports were so bizarre and non-sensical as to leave me […]

The Tragic Meltdown of the American “Melting Pot”

America was once proudly known as the “melting pot.” Its inhabitants, both native and foreign, understood at least implicitly that the essence of being American was that one was free to shed certain of his characteristics, such as race, and live by his individual values. Today, however, many Americans reject such individualism for various forms […]

Duke Freshman Lives Threatened for Defending Western Civilization

A series of letters to the editor at Duke University’s student newspaper has ignited a controversy resulting in hate mail, physical confrontations, and death threats directed at two students. Their crime? Freshmen Berin Szoka and Jay Strader expressed a preference for Western Civilization over Indian Civilization in an argument over whether Duke should institute a […]

Bureaucracy Goes Global: The World Bank vs Capitalism

Some months back the World Bank issued a report titled “Global Economic Prospects 1998/1999″. The report’s foreword, written by Joseph Stiglitz, World Bank Chief Economist, is demonstration of how statists blame capitalism and free-markets for the disatrous effects of the policies. Stiglitz maintains that most of the world’s emerging market problems can be blamed on […]

Slavery By Taxation

How can you spot Canadians? They have “Tax me!” stamped on their foreheads. Well, not true — but it might as well be true. According to Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco, Canadians are hit with “the highest income- and profit-tax rates in the industrialized world as a percentage of GDP.”1 “When one takes into account all the increases […]

What is Wrong with Public Schools?

“What is wrong with public schools?” There is a lot wrong with public schools. An easier question these days is, “What’s right with public schools?” At least the list would be shorter. The government school system in America today is sadly lacking, and not just in the realm of academic achievement. Children are, in effect, […]

Blacklists Are Not Censorship

The honorary Oscar given to Elia Kazan has generated renewed sympathy for the writers, directors, and actors whose membership in the Communist Party — revealed in the 1940s and 1950s by courageous witnesses such as Kazan — landed them on movie studio blacklists. Such blacklists, it is said, are a form of “private censorship” that […]

Collectivism by Default in Canada: The Right Adopts Leftist Principles

The stated purpose the United Alternative initiative — spawned by Preston Manning, leader of Reform Party of Canada — is to create a new party to defeat the Liberals in the next election. Unfortunately, Manning’s approach forebodes failure. His strategy involves inviting non-Liberals together to debate a platform of “principles” — “fiscal responsibility, social responsibility, […]

Will the Real Alan Greenspan Please Stand Up?

“An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense, perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire, that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that the gold standard is an instrument of laissez-faire and that each implies and requires the […]

Elia Kazan: Moral Hero

Some people are condemning the decision to give an honorary Oscar to film director Elia Kazan. They claim that because Kazan, a former member of the Communist Party, testified against fellow party — members before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he does not deserve such recognition. As one writer charges, “there can never be honor, […]

The Black Listing of Elia Kazan

When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it would honor director Elia Kazan with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Hollywood liberal-leftists objected. The “Committee Against Silence” (CAS), a group of former “blacklisted” writers, has planned a protest outside the Oscars ceremony on March 21, and has asked academy members not to applaud Mr. […]

Is President Bill Clinton a Rapist?

“Bimbo Eruptions.” That’s what Republication strategist Mary Matalin, during the 1992 presidential campaign, called allegations of extramarital affairs against candidate Bill Clinton. But, unfortunately for the president, Juanita Broaddrick is nobody’s bimbo. In an NBC “Dateline” interview taped before but aired after the Senate impeachment vote, Broaddrick says that in 1978 then-Arkansas attorney general Bill […]