The Houdini Award for Judicial Curruption
You expect a corrupt politician to do corrupt things, so when Senator Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., withdrew as a candidate for re-election after ethics charges led to his falling behind in the polls, that was hardly surprising. Nor was it particularly surprising that...Coloring the Sniper News: The Angry White Male Theory
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. — Some profiling experts are convinced that the roving sniper who has terrorized my neighborhood and surrounding communities is a white male. — Dr. Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist at New York University Medical Center,...The Case for Action Against Iraq
There is no honest question that Saddam is evil. Saddam is a dictator in the classic Stalinist model and Iraq is the antithesis of a free republic. Rather than make reason, persuasion and individual freedom the hallmark of its regime, Iraq relies upon the systematic...Congressman Jim McDermott: Saddam Hussein’s Useful Idiot in the U.S. Congress
Senator Hillary Rodham Clinton, post-Sept. 11, held up a New York Post headline, “Bush Knew.” “Bush knew,” said Sen. Clinton. “The president knew what?” Then Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney, D-Ga., on a radio talk show, insisted that...Dangerous Restraint
President George W. Bush’s speech on Iraq in effect reiterated what Edmund Burke said more than two centuries ago: “There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men.” Today, in a nuclear age, those words apply more...Black Leaders Silent Over Mugabe’s Destruction of Zimbabwe
Mugabe has created a disaster for both white and black Zimbabweans in the name of reparations and land redistribution.