A Wartime “Stimulus” Package — Tax More, or Spend Less?
Question: When does an economic “stimulus” package, well, stimulate the economy? In prosecuting this war against terrorism, the president and Congress now face a softening economy. Even before the airlines received their $15 billion “emergency aid...The Economic Effects of Destruction: Paul Krugman and War
Each semester, I spend a few minutes explaining to my students, both graduate and undergraduate, the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Why? Mother Nature permits us to do many things, but she prohibits the construction of machines of the first and second kinds....The U.S. in Wonderland: A Place Where Enemies Become Allies
The first round in the new war against terrorism has been lost. The “leak” of an announcement that the US favors a Palestinian state will correctly be interpreted by Arabs as proof that terrorism works. Just how strange is it that the three most obvious...Pacificism Empowers Terrorism
In the weeks following the 11 September attack, organizations across the nation– especially on college campuses–have gathered to rally in support of Adolf Hitler. They’ve posted signs, handed-out leaflets, and written editorials proclaiming their...The Autism Dilemma
Back on September 28, 1993, a group of parents of late-talking children was formed for mutual support, with my help, and grew until there were 55 families, scattered from coast to coast. Some of their children were diagnosed as autistic, though most of these diagnoses...Islam and the West
Terrorist organizations in the Middle East are trying to bill the current crisis as a confrontation between Islam and the West — as in the Jihads and Crusades of centuries past. But there is no need for the rest of us to go along with that. Six years ago,...A Monument to the 20th Century’s Greatest Mass Murderer in Seattle
In America, we’re free to be stupid. Still, as Rosenberg pointed out, a statue of Lenin is no more funny or wacky than a statue of Hitler. In 1986, I took my teen-age son to Berlin. We went to the Berlin Wall, of course, and even crossed it to visit East Berlin....End States That Sponsor Terrorism
Fifty years of increasing American appeasement in the Mideast have led to fifty years of increasing contempt in the Muslim world for the U.S. The climax was September 11, 2001.