Environmental Myth Report
El Nino and global warming: What connection?It’s been a hot year, thanks to El Nino. (According to weather satellite data, the first half of 1998 ranked well above the average of the last two decades; 1999 though is likely to be quite cold.) Much to the...Who Decides What Goes into Microsoft’s Windows OS?
Q: Don’t consumers have a right to buy Microsoft Windows without Internet Explorer? Does not Microsoft’s bundling of their products (i.e., Microsoft Internet Explorer and Microsoft Windows) into one package disrupt a person’s right to only have to...A Double Standard of Hypocrisy: Feminism’s Love Affair with President Clinton
Why have certain feminists refused to demand Bill Clinton’s resignation? For in his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, he committed an act of “sexual harassment” that these feminists eagerly apply to other violators of it, whose resignation or...Public Education’s Escape Through ADD and Ritalin
Nearby certain Long Island public schools there are street signs that read: “Drug Free School Zone.” Yet the educators of these schools are pushing a drug called Ritalin on students they diagnose with “Attention Deficit Disorder”...A Malcolm X postage stamp? What about George Wallace?
Former Alabama Governor and segregationist George Wallace on a postage stamp? You laugh. The post office’s criteria for honoring individuals, however, provides little guidance. The stamps should “feature American or American-related subjects” and...Environmentalism, Eco-Terrorism and Endangered Species
An underground environmental group called Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for incinerating four ski lifts (October 1998) and three buildings worth 12 $million at Vail, Colorado. Vail’s plans to expand its ski area apparently clashed with...The Clinton Impeachment: No Imperial Presidency
The supporters of the President and, apparently, a majority of the American public, believe that the President should be exempt from laws and sanctions to which ordinary citizens are subject.
