Bill Gates Begging Alms: Rekindle the flame for those who support Microsoft
Envy has destroyed great men in the past, and it might destroy a great man today.
The Media and Jerry Springer
This just in: The Jerry Springer Show is “fake”! Springer unmasked! America outraged! Excuse me, but isn’t the media calling Jerry Springer “fake” sort of like Jeffrey Dahmer calling carnivores immoral? Sixteen former Springer guests...A Health Care Solution: Medical Savings Accounts
America’s health care system is failing. Many Americans alarmed by this fact voice their usual mantra: “Something must be done.” But virtually every “something” politicians enact — such as Medicare reform, government-mandated HMOs,...Enviro-Lobbying 101: Using PC
There are a lot of behind-the-scenes scheming going on in Washington, D.C., as Administration appointees and EPA career bureaucrats plot to circumvent Senate ratification of the Kyoto Accord by classifying carbon dioxide as a pollutant rather than what it is, a...Hoop Dreams and the “Black-White Gap”
The brilliant documentary Hoop Dreams follows two young inner-city black boys who envision careers in the NBA. Neither makes it. Sadder, though, were the kids’ parents. So convinced of their children’s NBA destiny, they spent little time encouraging their...Reason vs Faith: Julian Simon vs Paul Ehrlich
In 1980, Julian Simon, the recently deceased economist and author of The Ultimate Resource, offered to environmentalists a wager based on his assertion that the price of any raw material would indefinitely decline on a future date. The wager was taken up by Paul...The Department of Professions
Imagine that in 1917 our government usurped each individual’s crucial responsibility of choosing their own profession, and that primarily because this government agency, called the Department of Professions (the DOP), has existed for generations, most Americans...Michael Milken: Guilty of Success and Victim of Non-Objective Reporting
Fischel demonstrated that the “crimes” Milken allegedly committed were mere bookkeeping infractions which violated no legitimate rights and harmed nobody.
