The first presidential election since the act of war on September 11, 2001, offers a clear choice for the so-called war on terrorism, a term which is precisely the problem. As others have pointed out, terrorism is a tactical means to an end: America is engaged in a...
Scott Holleran
Scott Holleran interviewed 2025 Carnegie Hero medal recipient Henry Reese, whom Salman Rushdie credits with saving his life from a radical Islamic assassin. Mr. Holleran wrote the Western Pennsylvania Press Club’s Best Sports Journalism award-winning “Roberto Clemente in Retrospect” in 2021 and his short story “Boom-Boom Goes to Jail” won a 2025 Col. Darron L. Wright Memorial Writing Award prize. Scott Holleran’s first book, Long Run: Short Stories: Volume One, a collection of 16 previously published short stories, features a foreword by Shoshana Milgram, Ph.D. Scott Holleran lives in the San Fernando Valley, where he’s writing his first novel, Speakeasy, choreographing dance and coaching weight loss.Read his non-fiction at ScottHolleran.substack.com. Follow and listen to him read his fiction aloud at ShortStoriesByScottHolleran.substack.com
George Lucas vs. The Stormtroopers
To paraphrase Ayn Rand in The Fountainhead, George Lucas created Star Wars and George Lucas has the right to destroy Star Wars.
America’s Funeral: Ronald Reagan in Perspective
Ronald Reagan was right that America is man’s last, best hope on earth — it still is — and his goal, to make America great again, means he understood that something had gone terribly wrong.
Welcome Back, Potter: Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban
A mythical hero whose mind is his means of understanding the world and whose happiness is his primary goal.
The Day After Tomorrow: The New Left’s Doomsday Evangelism for the Church of Environmentalism
Prepare for more religious propaganda: The Day After Tomorrow, which opens today, is the New Left's evangelism with ecology as its religion. Junk science is holy in Hollywood and director Roland Emmerich's motion picture is the latest example; the press notes read...
Failure Looms at Fallujah
A turning point in what President Bush has called the War on Terrorism is at hand. How and whether the American military handles enemy confrontations in Iraq during the coming weeks will tell Islamic terrorists and their state sponsors everything they need to know...
The Pledge of Allegiance Revisited: America’s Allegiance Belongs to Individual Rights Not Religion
The Pledge of Allegiance’s assertion that America exists Under God is wrong and allowing government schools to promote such notions constitutes the unequivocal establishment of religion. The Founding Fathers fought for the right to not believe in God, the right to not participate in religion, the right to reject faith. In this sense, the phrase ‘under God’ is un-American and it ought to be removed from the Pledge of Allegiance.
Jesus Christ Superscar
The Passion of the Christ’s theme is that suffering, not joy, is man’s proper fate.
Movies: Miracle on Ice Offered an Escape From 1979
The so-called miracle on ice only felt like a miracle because it represented the central conflict of the worlds bloodiest century: between individualism and collectivism and, for once, the good prevailed.
Unhappy Birthday and Merry Christmas, Elian
Elian Gonzalez, who floated in Florida's waters four years ago on Thanksgiving, is ten years old on Saturday. The media spectacle that surrounded his arrival and departure has given way to obscurity; the world has forgotten Elian. Those who ignore Elian's legacy may...
GOP Renews Era of Big Government
With zero time remaining, the bill to expand Medicare had been short by two votes --- yet, long after the clock had stopped, the Republican leadership maneuvered to change key conservative votes. Later, Rep. Butch Otter, R-Idaho, pleaded to the Associated Press: "I...
Why Medicare Expansion is Wrong
Adding prescription drug coverage to Medicare, as Congress is poised to do, is merely more socialism — it will neither help seniors nor is its passage likely to gain their votes.
A Plea to Grandparents: Just Say No To Prescription Drug Subsidies
Today's seniors are at the center of the most profound health care legislation since the Clinton health care plan: expansion of Medicare to grant prescription drug subsidies to people over 65. One might ask why, with the nation at war following the worst attack in...
Crossing the Line Over Health Care As a Right
Southern California's largest grocery strike in 25 years offers a clear example of opposing ideas in action; the labor dispute is a fundamental conflict over whether health insurance should be financed by those who want insurance --- or by those who hire those who...
Kill Bill – To Expand Medicare
From time to time, Congress passes, and the President signs a bill, that forever changes every American's life. The Medicare prescription drug coverage bill -- which President Bush has vowed to sign -- is such an event; if passed, this expansion of Medicare, like the...
The Energizer Takes on the Terminator: Interview with State Senator Tom McClintock
If Arnold Schwarzenegger is the Terminator, State Sen. Tom McClintock, a conservative who has figured prominently into the nation's most controversial election since 2000, is the Energizer Bunny.Against a media onslaught that has emphasized celebrity over philosophy,...
Why We’re Losing the War on Terrorism
Let the remembrances begin; in the time since the worst attack in American history, it is proper to remember what happened, to celebrate heroic acts and to mourn the staggering loss of life. There is sadness, yes, but the root of the sadness must be examined, too:...
Recall Republicans Must Stand for Individual Rights
The nation's most frenzied electoral battle since the 2000 presidential election -- the effort to recall California Gov. Gray Davis -- offers dramatic evidence that the GOP is intellectually bankrupt. The campaign to recall Davis was sponsored, led and funded by GOP...
Bob Hope: A Uniquely American Archetype
When comedian Bob Hope died on Sunday, at age 100, the media unleashed old clips and canned obituaries and the world has been getting to know him again ever since.
Republicans Ought to Recall Theocratic Principles, Not Gray Davis
The nation's most frenzied electoral battle since the 2000 presidential election -- the effort to recall California Gov. Gray Davis -- offers dramatic evidence that the GOP is intellectually bankrupt. The Republican philosophy was once represented by the late Arizona...
Seven Years Later: Was TWA Flight 800 a First Strike By Jihad Terrorists?
It's been seven years since the July 17, 1996, crash of TWA Flight 800 near Long Island, New York, and the cause remains unknown; the lingering mystery of one of the nation's worst aviation disasters is now a forgotten media spectacle. The $ 40 million federal...
Subscribe for free.
Latest pro-Capitalism goodness sent weekly to your email box.
No spam. Unsubscribe anytime.