Minimum Wage, Maximum Stupidity

Warning: Over certain issues, otherwise intelligent people may, repeat, may suffer instantaneous, and often irreversible, brain-freeze. Take the minimum wage. The City Council in Santa Monica, Calif., a town also known as “Moscow on the Pacific,” just...

Can a Good Cop have a Bad Mouth?

Does a bad-mouthed cop, by definition, exercise bad judgment? Last December 1998, in Riverside, California, a 19-year-old black woman, Tyisha Miller, sat in an apparent coma with a gun on her lap, in a locked car with the motor running. Her companions called 911, and...

Lessons from History: Who Killed Princess Diana?

Over two years have passed since that fatal car crash in a Paris tunnel, and the fundamental question still burns: Who is morally responsible for the tragic and senseless death of princess Diana? Although the investigation report from the French magistrate has yet to...

The Coke Question: Why Bush, not Clinton?

“You have to answer the question. It won’t go away.” — Reverend Jesse Jackson The subject? George W. Bush. The “question (that) won’t go away”? Bush’s alleged cocaine use. Meet Reverend Jesse “Zero-Tolerance”...

The New “Racists” Are Here

Fifty percent of whites find segregation OK, as do 40 percent of blacks. The National Association for the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP) commissioned a poll that uncovered these “shocking” results. Predictably, the mainstream media led the parade....