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 hit his...
Joseph Kellard
Joseph Kellard is a journalist living in New York
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 dictating the price of...
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, the Kennedy-Kassaubaum bill --...
Reason vs Faith: Julian Simon vs Paul Ehrlich
In 1980, Julian Simon, the recently deceased economist and author of The Ultimate Resource, offered to environmentalists a wager based on his assertion that the price of any raw material would indefinitely decline on a future date. The wager was taken up by Paul...
The Department of Professions
Imagine that in 1917 our government usurped each individual's crucial responsibility of choosing their own profession, and that primarily because this government agency, called the Department of Professions (the DOP), has existed for generations, most Americans today...
The Clinton Commission: One Does Not Stop Racism By Practicing It
March 15, 1998To Ms. Winston,As an individualist, I am disturbed by racism; therefore I oppose One America in the 21st Century, President Clinton's initiative on race. I have followed the events of this commission closely and contend that it must ultimately fail in...
Microsoft is Successful Because It is Competitive
Bill Gates, Microsoft's founder and Chairman, had to testify before the Senate Judiciary Committee this week because his competitors, the government, and his other foes have manipulatively vilified him. They unjustly characterize Microsoft's dominance in computing as...
The American Health Care System’s Deadly Virus: Socialist Controls
America's health care system ailments, such as skyrocketing costs and restrictions on the freedom to choose a doctor, are prevalently ascribed to our mixed economy's capitalist aspects, while their alleged remedies lie in the economy's other aspect: statist, socialist...
A Double Standard of Justice Toward Microsoft
In 1988, Microsoft offered manufacturers of personal computers a considerable discount on the licensing fees they pay to install MS-DOS and Windows operating system on new PCs prior to their leaving the factory. In exchange it required manufacturers to pay for each...
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