by Peter Schwartz | Apr 23, 1999 | Environment
For the first time in American history, the government is ordering the destruction of a dam–for environmental reasons. This July, Edwards Dam, a small hydroelectric facility on the Kennebec River in Augusta, Maine, will be torn down by the Federal Energy... by Larry Elder | Apr 23, 1999 | POLITICS
Before the horrific shooting at the Littleton, Colo., high school, the media sat around like the Maytag repairman on Prozac. Monica’s gone, impeachment and trial over with, the Jon-Benet Ramsey mystery dormant. Oh, sure, there’s the occasional O.J.... by Joseph Kellard | Apr 20, 1999 | POLITICS, Women's Rights
Six woman recently file suite against the state of Alabama over a law it enacted last year regarding vibrators and other sex toys. The law states that selling or distributing “any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the... by Elia Kazan | Apr 19, 1999 | Free Speech, POLITICS
The following statement originally appeared as an advertisement, placed by Elia Kazan in the New York Times, April 12, 1952.In the past weeks intolerable rumors about my political position have been circulating in New York and Hollywood. I want to make my stand... by Larry Elder | Apr 16, 1999 | POLITICS, Price Controls
Every so often, without fail, the Republicans remind me why I don’t join the party. A recovering drug and alcohol abuser, living in the streets, recently told me the following story. One day, in desperate need of money, he went to the owner of a convenience... by Jack Letourneau | Apr 14, 1999 | POLITICS
Since 1935, the United States government has been operating a program that would be illegal if run by a private citizen or company — tarred as a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. Social Security, a scheme both impractical and immoral, is a smear on America’s... by Andrew West | Apr 12, 1999 | POLITICS, South America
I’m not sure what’s more infuriating: witnessing Brazil’s drawn out slow-motion crash and burn after an endless string of stupid policies over the past year; the sudden breakdown in devaluative stupidity; or enduring the lame economic analysis that... by Joseph Kellard | Apr 5, 1999 | POLITICS
America was once proudly known as the “melting pot.” Its inhabitants, both native and foreign, understood at least implicitly that the essence of being American was that one was free to shed certain of his characteristics, such as race, and live by his... by News Wire | Apr 4, 1999 | POLITICS
A series of letters to the editor at Duke University’s student newspaper has ignited a controversy resulting in hate mail, physical confrontations, and death threats directed at two students. Their crime? Freshmen Berin Szoka and Jay Strader expressed a...
