Samantha Runnion was a victim of perverse ideas. Not just the ideas that drove Alejandro Avila to kidnap, sexually assault and strangulate her, but also those that lawyers use to get defendants off who they know are guilty. One such lawyer, Alan Dershowitz, who helped...
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Let’s Not Execute Capital Punishment
Every argument opposing capital punishment — e.g., it fails to deter would-be murderers, it’s administered according to racial/economic bias, it kills innocent people — evades the fundamental basis for why state execution, when used with discretion,...
Patriots Taxed by Taxes
American companies are incorporating into Bermuda to lower their taxes. Some people suggest that this growing trend is unpatriotic. In reality, these companies are acting in the spirit of America’s original patriots. The New York Times reported1 that these...
Sports = Life
“Athletes don’t contribute anything to society,” some people say. These critics also paint the love of watching sports as an “escape” from life’s important issues. But, at root, sports have life-and-death implications. They can...
Sex and Beer Versus The Government: The Disease of Bureaucracy
Some months ago MSNBC.com reported that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimate raising the state tax on a six-pack of beer by 20 cents could reduce the nation’s gonorrhea rate by almost 9 percent.1 How are beer and a sexually transmitted...
Why Racism Persists
“Any Day Now,” a weekly sitcom on cable TV’s “Lifetime” channel, chronicles the lives of two woman-one black; the other white – who have renewed their childhood friendship that began in Birmingham, Alabama, during the early 1960s....
George W. Bush’s Contradictory Stand on Abortion
George W. Bush holds a most contradictory stand on abortion. Earlier this decade he said: “I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortions.” Yet when asked if he would seek a constitutional ban on all abortions, he replied...
The Importance of Principles in Foreign Policy, the Economy, and Political Change
Joseph Kellard for Capitalism Magazine: What is your assessment of President Clinton’s foreign policy in the Balkans? Tracinski: Well, to start with, I think his so-called victory in the recent Kosovo conflict is really an unmitigated disaster. First, we ended...
Violence in American Schools: An Interview with Dr. Michael Hurd
Capitalism Magazine: Many people, sociologists and psychologists among them, blame the rash of shootings by kids in schools on the violence depicted in video games, movies, and TV and on the prevalence of guns in America. What do you think is the most fundamental...
The Modernists Embrace Normality
The art of Norman Rockwell is experiencing a revival in popularity, having been exhibited lately in many museums. A noteworthy cause of this revival has been the praisers of modern “art.” That ilk of critics and college professors who had always regarded...
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...
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...
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”...
The “Sensitive” Road to Censorship
During the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, people of that court replaced saying the word “nigger”(as used by former LA police detective Mark Fuhrman) with “the ‘N’-word.” Last year, Merriam-Webster was asked by certain people to omit...
A Double Standard of Hypocrisy: Feminism’s Love Affair with President Clinton
Why have certain feminists refused to demand Bill Clinton’s resignation? For in his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, he committed an act of “sexual harassment” that these feminists eagerly apply to other violators of it, whose resignation or...
Public Education’s Escape Through ADD and Ritalin
Nearby certain Long Island public schools there are street signs that read: “Drug Free School Zone.” Yet the educators of these schools are pushing a drug called Ritalin on students they diagnose with “Attention Deficit Disorder” (ADD)....
The Religious Left
The political-left properly condemns the political-right for lobbying government to force its religious values on others. However, the political left, despite that many of its proponents don’t explicitly preach or practice religion (some are atheists), is itself...
Feeding fuel to a fire: Clinton’s attempt to fight racism by enshrining it
On June 14, 1997, after the Rodney King trial, the Los Angeles riots, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the abolishment of affirmative action policies at certain universities in California, Bill Clinton announced “One America in the 21st Century: The President’s...
Leonardo da Vinci: Renaissance Man Extraordinaire
“Many will think that they can with reason blame me, alleging — that my proofs are contrary to the authority of certain men held in great reverence by their inexperienced judgments, not considering that my works are the issue of simple and plain experience...
Mark McGwire and the Heroics in Hitting Home Runs
Mark McGwire of the Saint Louis Cardinals was right. America did need the spectacle of his pursuit of major-league baseball’s single-season home run record. And much about what they needed culminated in St. Louis’ Busch Stadium on September 8th, when he...
The Pseudo-Scientific Road to Destruction
A recent study, funded by the National Science Foundation, alleges that the twentieth century has been warmer than the five centuries preceding it, and the years 1997, 1995 and 1990 were the warmest since1400 AD. Michael Mann, a climatologist at the University of...
The Republicans Fail Freedom Again
During the debates over the recently defeated McCain tobacco bill, Republicans again demonstrated why they’re incompetent to defend freedom. …to allegedly “protect children,” government was to intensify its violation of individual rights by...
Books: The Godless Constitution
Ayn Rand held that the new intellectuals have to continue the Founders’ basic political line by reminding the world that man has a right to his own life, liberty, and happiness. Kramnic and Moore ultimately achieve this in Godless Constitution.
A Health Care Solution: Medical Savings Accounts
America’s health care system is failing. Many Americans alarmed by this fact voice their usual mantra: “Something must be done.” But virtually every “something” politicians enact — such as Medicare reform, government-mandated HMOs,...
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