by George Clowes | May 29, 2001 | POLITICS
Diane Ravitch research professor at New York University and holds the Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution in Washington, DC and is author of the book Left Back: A Century of Failed School Reforms. Clowes: What prompted you to write Left Back?...
by Michelle Malkin | May 28, 2001 | POLITICS
A jihad against some of America’s best and brightest researchers continues unabated. Arsonists struck again in the Pacific Northwest this week, gutting a University of Washington horticultural lab in Seattle and burning down property at a poplar tree nursery in...
by Thomas Sowell | May 27, 2001 | POLITICS
In the years ahead, more violent criminals may be walking the street, some taking the lives of law-abiding citizens, because someone in the White House couldn’t keep his big mouth shut about how they were going to retaliate against Republican Senator Jim...
by Emmanuel Forgolou | May 27, 2001 | POLITICS
Politicians and pundits claim that the free market has had its chance and failed, calling for a government takeover of the electric utilities and power plants as the solution. The tragic irony is that California’s energy nightmare would have been absolutely...
by Alan Luber | May 27, 2001 | POLITICS
One of the things we often hear about the stock market is that it is an anticipatory animal, meaning that bear markets begin when the economy is good but people fear that things will get worse in the future, and that conversely, bull markets begin when the economy is...
by Michelle Malkin | May 26, 2001 | POLITICS
The hallowed waters that surround the sunken U.S.S. Arizona murmur gently like eternal witnesses to history. There lie 1,102 American crewmen who lost their lives during the Dec. 7, 1941, air raid on Pearl Harbor. Above the ship, like a floating tombstone, rests a...
by Emmanuel Forgolou | May 25, 2001 | POLITICS
The Texas Legislature is currently considering a bill that will mandate “volunteer” work for all college and university students in the state. The result of this bill will be to introduce “volunteerism” as a component of college education. The...
by Michelle Malkin | May 24, 2001 | Guns, POLITICS
The “Million” Mom March fell about 999,800 bodies short this year. Rosie O’Donnell, a leading anti-gun loudmouth who emceed last year’s march and later sought armed security guards for her own children, was a no-show at the pathetically...
by Don Luskin | May 24, 2001 | POLITICS
Suddenly we find ourselves back in the nightmare world of the pregnant chad. And everything was going so well, too. Whatever you may think of the policies of George W. Bush’s new administration, at least it was clanking along pretty well and the political...