Education or Power Play?

Maryland must be a very safe state, because it has time to prosecute a mother who is teaching her daughter at home. The little girl of 7 scores above the national average on tests given by the Educational Testing Service in Princeton, which leading colleges across the...

Hating Bad Government

At the time of the Oklahoma City bombing, Bill Clinton chastised those Americans who loved their country but hated their government. That’s a morally blind statement at best. After all would Clinton have said that to Germans who loved their country but hated the...

What to Do about Terrorism

Imagine the following situation: A roving homicidal maniac runs amok in your neighborhood, spraying bullets in all directions, killing your wife and wounding you. Frantically, you call the police. “This is terrible,” they say. “We will take drastic...

Civility Toward Government

Retiring Senator William Cohen (R. Maine) was interviewed by Washington, D.C.’s WAMU-radio’s talk show host Diane Rehm. He talked about the changing political climate both in Congress and the nation. Cohen lamented how American traditional skepticism...

Animal or Human Compassion

America is a rich nation with seemingly limitless compassion, partially evidenced by our $5 trillion failed effort to eliminate poverty and dependence. After 30 years of failure, we might start asking some questions about the nature of our compassion toward the poor....

Elite Costs

It’s amazing how we listen to people who’ve been dead wrong time after time. In 1975, the Environmental Fund took out full-page ads warning, “The World as we know it will likely be ruined by the year 2000 . . . World food production cannot keep pace...

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