by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 16, 2000 | POLITICS
If you live in Albuquerque, N.M., and you have teen-agers who might be inclined to raid your wine, beer or whiskey cupboard while you are away, rent your housing, don’t buy. The city council has recently passed a law [September 2000] that lets the city seize...
by Michelle Malkin | Dec 15, 2000 | POLITICS
One of my favorite bands, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, recently penned an ode to “Californication.” The term refers to the spread of the Golden State’s worst attributes: smog, strip malls, drive-bys, and celebrity worship. “It’s understood...
by Paul Craig Roberts | Dec 15, 2000 | Crime, POLITICS
The war against crime is getting out of hand and needs to be reassessed before the Constitution is torn to shreds. Both lawmakers and law enforcers have forgotten that the ends don’t justify the means. In the determination to pursue crime — drug-related...
by Thomas Sowell | Dec 14, 2000 | Elections, POLITICS
Elections are supposed to be decided by voters on election day, not by judges later on. But once state and local courts inject themselves into post-election controversies, without any legal justification, the only institution that can get rid of their interference is...
by Thomas Sowell | Dec 14, 2000 | POLITICS
If the Supreme Court of the United States had not stepped in to stop the endless re-re-recounts in Florida, George W. Bush might have won a presidential election more times than Franklin D. Roosevelt — and all in one year. What has been even worse than all the...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Dec 14, 2000 | POLITICS, Women's Rights
Q: I observe much “male-bashing” in today’s America, and I also observe that it has become widely acceptable. (The “Lifetime” channel on cable TV provides one poignant example of this). I don’t mean the usual, superficial...
by Ruthann Quindlen | Dec 14, 2000 | POLITICS
I referred to the magic of Silicon Valley. That magic-an intoxicating mix of money, imagination, and inspiration-had its origin in the semiconductor boom of the 1970s, when dozens of companies seized on possibilities made ripe by Intel’s development of the first...
by Thomas Sowell | Dec 13, 2000 | POLITICS
In the old movie classic “The Treasure of Sierra Madre,” armed men confront Humphrey Bogart, claiming to be police. “If you’re policemen,” he asked, “where are your badges?” “We don’t need no stinkin’...
by Michelle Malkin | Dec 13, 2000 | POLITICS
Windmills and candles and warm woolen mittens. Staticky sparks from the fur of small kittens. Campfires and solar panels and thermal paddings. These are a few of the favorite things that radical environmentalists would rather rely on for warmth, light, and electricity...
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