Compulsory Service for High School Students
Mandatory community service for high school students presents a clear moral issue: By what right do we treat our sons and daughters as beasts of burden?
The Brown Bomber Strikes Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas
Fresh from his recent attack on Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr, San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown carpet-bombed yet another loathsome public figure — Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. At a meeting before the Association of Black Sociologists, Hizzoner...The Pseudo-Scientific Road to Destruction
A recent study, funded by the National Science Foundation, alleges that the twentieth century has been warmer than the five centuries preceding it, and the years 1997, 1995 and 1990 were the warmest since1400 AD. Michael Mann, a climatologist at the University of...Gary Coleman, Hate Criminal?
“You Black People are all alike.” After allegedly making that remark, former child actor Gary Coleman (“Different Strokes”) stands accused of repeatedly striking an autograph seeker. Coleman, a 30-year-old black man, now a security guard,...Pay Equity is a Bigoted Assault on “Human Rights”
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal recently ruled that the Canadian Government must pay roughly 200,000 former and current civil servants, mostly women, up to 13 years in back-pay because of alleged discrimination against female-dominated job classifications....A Tale of Two Novels: Ayn Rand’s Atlas Shrugged vs James Joyce’s Ulysses
It is not really fair to ask if Ulysses holds similar meaning for the Platonists, because the book is practically impossible to read — the reason for its snob appeal. Ulysses recalls the saying, “We muddy the waters to make them appear deep.”
