Beware of the Many Masks of Russia’s Putin
Russia is in the news: a crackdown on the media and the oligarchs; the Kursk submarine disaster; restructuring of the Federation, including the creation of seven federal superdistricts headed mostly by generals; and a change in the way members of the upper house of...The Conservative Welfare State
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...No Sense of Proportion in the Demand for Electric Cars
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....In Search of…Civil Rights Violations
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....Alan Greenspan: Puppet or Puppet Master?
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...The U.S. Needs to Stop Arming and Training China’s 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.
Bush Should Establish Missile Defense as a National Priority
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...Mel Reynolds and Bill Clinton: Bosom Buddies (The Scoop on the Clinton Pardons)
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...
CAPITALISM REVIEW
- Birds of a Collectivist Feather Flock Together
- Say Yes To Data Centers
- Verifying Universal Mail In Ballots
- Chip Joyce: Fauci Document Archive
- George Reisman: Western civilization is open to everyone
- Tracinski Loses Congressional Bid in Virginia
- Minnesota ICE Resistance: Creating a powder keg of citizen vs. federal law enforcement
- Shooting of Renee Good: Irresponsible to Immediately Proclaim This a Murder
- America Last: Fuentes’s Prime Supporters are Foreign Bots That Boost His Influence
- America is Not Fundamentally a Christian Nation
- “Warm Collectivism” vs. “Frigid” Individualism
- CNN Scott Jennings on the “epidemic of political vigilantism”