"That has nothing to do with intelligence," said former President Bill Clinton. "It basically says he's a dangerous guy that might do a lot of things." Clinton refers to a 1999 CIA report about the possibility of terrorist attacks against America by Osama bin Laden....
The Second Amendment is back. Rejecting six decades of the government's head-in-sand approach to the Second Amendment, Attorney General John Ashcroft now says the Founding Fathers meant what they said and said what they meant. The Second Amendment confers an...
Anti-Semitism in America, according to a survey commissioned by the Anti-Defamation League, stands at an all-time low. But alarmingly, the survey found blacks three to four times more likely than non-blacks to be anti-Semitic.
Sex education abstinence programs do not work. Or so the government now tells us. For the last five years, the government spent $500 million on educational programs pushing sexual abstinence. With the program set to expire, Congress recently debated whether to extend...
Does sexism explain the "underrepresentation" of women in Hollywood? "If you look at the number of women working behind the scenes," said Martha Lauzen, a San Diego State University professor, "they're dramatically underrepresented (emphasis added)." Does sexism...
The Associated Press ran a rare article explaining exactly who pays the federal income taxes. They state that the top 5 percent of income earners pay more than 55 percent of the total federal income taxes. (To be eligible for the top 5 percent, one must have an annual...
I spent my 21st birthday, in 1973, in Jerusalem, months before the Yom Kippur War. As part of the college junior semester abroad, I lived and traveled in Israel for nearly five weeks. In preparing a thesis called "U.N. Resolution 242 and the Viability of an...
With the Academy Awards behind us, we now turn our attention to the SAP Awards, honoring the biggest Second Amendment Phony. And the nominees are: -- "The West Wing." In a recent episode, President Josiah Bartlet, played by Martin Sheen, pronounced the Second...
"There's a lot of outcry now over the serious lack of female coaches, but not enough being done to solve the problem," said a former physical education professor. According to Linda Carpenter, the co-author of the Women in Intercollegiate Sport study, 30 years ago,...
Congresswoman Maxine Waters, D-Calif. -- offended! At a meeting last month, Los Angeles Police Commission head Rick Caruso allegedly referred to Waters as a "bitch." Others attended the meeting, but no one confirmed or denied that Caruso made the remark. Waters...
The welfare state enjoyed a stellar week. First, the Victims Compensation Fund, set up by Congress, announced compensation averaging $1.85 million for the families of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. While deducting life insurance and some pension benefits, the payout...
President George W. Bush -- despite his post-Sept. 11 performance -- remains dumb, says "West Wing" producer Aaron Sorkin. Bush's stratospheric popularity, claims Sorkin, results from our collective refusal to admit Bush's stupidity: "That illusion (of a fully-engaged...
Where violent crime takes place between blacks and whites, the cases overwhelmingly involve a black perpetrator and a white victim.
Skategate, international scandal! Frankly, some of us expected a few eyebrows to raise when, during a retrospective piece on the 1972 Munich Olympics, NBC referred to the terrorists who killed 11 Israeli athletes as "commandos." But we digress. Try and follow the...
On January 16, 2002, a law student at Virginia's Appalachian School of Law shot and killed the dean, a professor and another student, while wounding three others. How did the shooting spree end? According to the Los Angeles Times, "Other students tackled (emphasis...
To avoid "another Enron," President George W. Bush proposes measures to "help" workers to protect their 401(k) money. Under Bush's proposals, companies must allow workers, if they choose, to sell company stock after three years, a shorter period than many current...
"Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe wants to appear on your show," my producer excitedly told me. A staffer of the DNC chairman called -- not once, but three times -- to arrange the chairman's appearance on my radio show during a swing through...
Is deficit spending "a potent recession cure when administered properly"? A newspaper business writer made this assertion in an article entitled "The Budget Deficit Faced by Many States." But is it true, that it's a good thing when governments spend more than they...
Watch any presidential newscast, and UPI's Helen Thomas generally asks the first question. But there's one slight problem. Though Thomas spent more than 50 years as a UPI correspondent, she no longer works for the wire service. And even though she's earned the respect...
Dear President Bush, "What can we do to help win the war against terrorism?" Americans all across the country eagerly ask. In response, you insist that we "go about our daily lives," but with a heightened sense of awareness. To live in fear, you correctly counsel,...
A student, for an assignment, looked up the word "democracy" in Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary, 10th Edition. The following definition appears: 1. a: government by the people; especially: rule of the majority b: a government in which the supreme power is...
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