What About “One Nation”?

Last month, members of Congress leapt to the defense of the words “under God.” They shouted the phrase on Capitol Hill and in front of every available camera. But what about the two little words in the Pledge of Allegiance that come right before...

Capitalism Without Capital

“There is no capitalism without conscience. There is no wealth without character,” President Bush told Wall Street yesterday. True. But if business owners are not smart enough to see that it’s in their own economic self-interest to be honest with...

Which is Worse: WorldCom or Congress?

President Bush said he was “deeply concerned” about some of the accounting practices in corporate America and called “outrageous” the disclosure that WorldCom, which is $32 billion in debt, had hidden $3.8 billion in expenses. The president...

American History vs. Affirmative Action Hogwash

Bill O’Reilly of “The O’Reilly Factor” is one of the few major media figures who does not hesitate to criticize Jesse Jackson, so it was appropriate that the author of a critical new book about Jackson appeared on that program. The book is...

The Prerequisite to Peace

There are times, George Orwell is reputed to have said, when the first duty of an intelligent man is to restate the obvious. President Bush did his duty this week when he cut through the murk of the past nine years — the years of the Middle East “peace...

Hollywood Leftists: You Pay, We Insult

Winston Churchill, many say, once said, “A man younger than 30 who’s not a liberal has no heart and a man older than 30 who’s not a conservative has no brain.” But this fails to explain why so many Hollywood celebrities, even past their 30s,...

Small-Time Crooks

Reporters, commentators and politicians have whipped themselves into a frenzy over the recent corporate accounting scandals, heaping abuse on corporate executives in general and demanding to see the perpetrators led away in leg-irons. But is this feeding frenzy...

Fallacy of More Renewables

Renewable sources of energy are greatly misunderstood in public debate. One misunderstanding is the idea that having more renewables supply our energy needs in the next decade or two is necessarily a public good. A second mistaken notion is that renewable energy...

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