President George Bush has been thrown the gambit by Saddam Hussein. In his interview with CBS News anchorman Dan Rather, Saddam proposed that Bush debate him before the world on live television. Establishing a dialogue in the midst of a crisis sounds on its face like...
Nicholas Provenzo
Jenny from the Block
There is this song that has been on the airwaves for the past month where Jennifer Lopez, the current femme-fatal of the entertainment world sings the following chorus: "Don't be fooled by the rocks that I gotI'm still, I'm still Jenny from the blockUsed to have a...
High Noon with Iraq
In his address before the United Nations Security Council, US Secretary of State Colin Powell made it absolutely clear: instead of dismantling its weapons of mass destruction in plain sight of the world, Iraq has engaged in a deliberate program of deceit and...
An Axis of Valor
Last week, the leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark and the Czech Republic publicly declared their support for America against Iraq. Joining together in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal, The Times of London and other...
Hail Columbia
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Commander Rick Husband, pilot William "Willy" McCool, flight engineer Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist Michael Anderson, medical officer and flight surgeon Laurel Clark, mission specialist David Brown, and Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon...
The State of the Union 2003: A Pro-American Foreign Policy
In this year's State of the Union address, it was said by many that President Bush would have to clearly make the case for war with Iraq before the American people to answer the fears of a wavering public. In the President's speech before the nation, that case was...
Racist Secretary of State Colin Powell Should Resign
Earlier this week, on CNN's Late Edition and CBS's Face the Nation, Secretary of State Colin Powell proclaimed his support of the University of Michigan's use of racial preferences to bolster minority enrollments in its undergraduate and law school programs. The...
A Veteran Comments on Re-instating the Military Draft
There can never be a national emergency that legitimizes the violation of individual rights.
The Conservative Cult of Human Sacrifice
In a column earlier this month in TownHall by Ross Mackenzie, Mackenzie issues a call for mandatory universal service for America's youth. "Compulsory universal service--one year with an eight-week military component, men and women, no exceptions except for physical...
Lott’s Resignation: Now the Real Work Begins
According to the Associated Press, "A beleaguered Trent Lott stepped aside Friday as Senate Republican leader two weeks after igniting a political firestorm with racially charged remarks, and Tennessee's Bill Frist prepared to inherit the job when the GOP takes over...
Tonya Harding’s Army
Here is an interesting quote by U.S. District Judge J. Frederick Motz, the federal judge overseeing Sun Microsystems' request for an injunction against Microsoft, "Capitalism is about making money, but it's also about something else. It's also about pride of product."...
The Implosion of the Republican Party
It's been nearly a week since Trent Lott got all misty for Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist campaign for president, and yet not one of his peers in the Senate has called for his ouster as Majority leader. Not one Senator has demanded the Senate censure Lott for...
The Irrationality of Treating Dictators as ‘Rational Actors’
This piece is occasioned by the "discovery" that North Korea has been violating the Agreed Framework and working on nuclear weapons. However, it could just as easily have been written after the collapse of the Oslo Accords, after the discovery of Saddam Hussein's...
Appeasement Never Works
By definition, every dictatorship's hands are drenched in blood, yet some people still think they can be placated by simply appeasing them. Consider the revelation that the Stalinist dictatorship of North Korea now has nuclear weapons, despite promises to the...
A Cycle of Injustice: Mob of Teenagers Beat Man to Death
On September 29th, 2002 in Milwaukee, a 14 year-old teenager threw an egg at a man, named Charlie Young. The man in turn struck the teenager for throwing it, knocking out the teenager's tooth with the force of his hit. "According to police, a mob of boys as young as...
Reason and Justice vs. Faith and Humility: Turn the Other Cheek?
When I was a youngster at St. Mark's parochial school in Buffalo, New York, I was not one of those kids on the top of the physical pecking order and occasionally, I got into the scrapes that come with such status. I remember once after mounting a rather ineffective...
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...
Solar Power Statists: Blinded by the Light
For the past week, the National Mall in Washington has been host to the Department of Energy's "Solar Decathlon," a collegiate competition and demonstration project to build a 500 square foot home powered only by the sun. Despite generous government and corporate...
The Republicans Impotence and the Future of Our Freedom
According to an article in the Washington Post, the Bush administration has decided to distance itself from the term "privatization" at the request of the National Republican Congressional Committee, claming the word never accurately reflected the White House's views....
The Canadian Government vs. Free Speech
There are two principles that taken together are the cornerstone of freedom. One is that an individual has a right to his life. The other is that an individual has the right to speak uncoerced. Today, the 2nd right is under threat in Canada. According to Ray Girn,...
Anti-Capitalist Demonstrators and Freedom of Speech
Last weekend's anti-capitalist demonstrations in Washington were every bit what most observers expected them to be: sessions in idiocy, lunacy and general mayhem. As expected, portions of the city were significantly impacted by the demonstrations and despite almost...
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