by Robert W Tracinski | Feb 5, 2001 | POLITICS, Welfare
In 1960, the novelist and philosopher Ayn Rand pronounced conservatism dead. The conservatives’ refusal to challenge the fundamental ideas behind the welfare state, she argued, would doom them to a policy of appeasement and timidity. Sometimes it may seem as if... by Thomas Sowell | Feb 4, 2001 | POLITICS
Mathematicians use the term “rational numbers” for numbers that can form a ratio. By this definition, there is a lot of irratioUality in California, where many people seem incapable of forming a ratio or proportion between different things.... by Walter Williams | Feb 4, 2001 | POLITICS
Racial charges by many black politicians, civil-rights spokesmen, self-appointed black leaders and guilt-ridden whites are just plain nonsense. They get away with them because we’re ill-informed or are too timid to question their assumptions and assertions.... by Andrew Lewis | Feb 3, 2001 | POLITICS
Alan Greenspan’s about-face on interest rates and tax cuts might have you wondering if he is simply reacting to his new Commander-in-Chief, or if he is seeing how much he can manipulate the economy. Under Clinton, he was an outspoken opponent of tax... by Larry Wortzel | Feb 3, 2001 | Asia, Military
Part of the reason U.S. military leaders give away too much is naiveté, not disloyalty. Part of the explanation for such actions is this romantic sense of wanting to give China something in the hopes of developing a friendship. People do really dumb things.
by Baker Spring | Feb 2, 2001 | POLITICS
President Bush should explain to Americans, Congress, and the world why a national missile defense system is urgently needed and how a global missile defense system will help to ensure that no country is held hostage by the threat of attack by missiles carrying... by Michelle Malkin | Feb 1, 2001 | POLITICS
Johnny-come-lately liberals are in an uproar over former President Clinton’s peddling of White House pardons: Clinton has no shame! He’ll do anything for a quick buck! He disgraced the highest office in the land! This is news? Lost in the hoopla is... by Paul Craig Roberts | Feb 1, 2001 | POLITICS
For decades, Planned Parenthood has been proselytizing that sex education is the answer to unwanted pregnancies and population control. The crusaders first breached the high schools, then poured into the elementary schools. Today, toddlers are taught the mechanics of... by Jeff Jacoby | Jan 31, 2001 | POLITICS
Late in September 2000, the Palestinian Authority kicked off a campaign of organized violence meant to hasten the final “liberation” of Israel from the Jews. The fighting began with mobs throwing rocks and firebombs at Jewish civilians and vehicles. Soon...
