Dealing with Russia
On Aug. 8, Russia decided to rewrite the rules of post-World War II European security. It repudiated the Helsinki Pact of 1975, which recognized the sanctity of borders in Europe, and violated the sovereignty and territorial integrity of NATO aspirant Georgia, whose...Stubborn Ignorance: The Financial Crisis is a Failure of Government Policy
Here’s what the U.S. Constitution says: “All bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.” How many times have we heard politicians, pundits and...The High Cost of Racial Hype
Sometimes you don’t know when you are lucky. Certainly I did not consider myself lucky when I left home at seventeen and discovered the hard way that there was no great demand for a black teenage dropout with no experience and no skill. In retrospect, however,...Idols of Crowds
To find anything comparable to crowds’ euphoric reactions to Obama, you would have to go back to old newsreels of German crowds in the 1930s, with their adulation of their fuehrer, Adolf Hitler.
Just Pay for CEOs: Why Some CEOs Deserve Huge Salaries
Capitalism–even semi- capitalism–punishes the wasteful expenditure of funds on anything, including on executive salaries.
Academic Mismatch II
Last week’s column demonstrated the harm, suffered by black students, that results from law school race-based admission policies. The bottom line was that black students who might have done well at lower-tier law schools were recruited to more highly competitive...The Vision of the Left
Conservatives, as well as liberals, would undoubtedly be happier living in the kind of world envisioned by the left. Very few people have either a vested interest or an ideological preference for a world in which there are many inequalities. Even fewer would prefer a...Amendment 48 Is Anti-Life: Morality and Abortion (Part 6 of 6)
If you believe that “human life has value,” the only moral choice is to vote against Amendment 48.
