by John David Lewis | Jun 21, 2008 | Middle East & Israel, POLITICS
I just returned from a speaking engagement at Tel Aviv University (see pictures here). My honorarium was four days of sight-seeing in Tel Aviv, Abu Gosh, Jerusalem, En Gedi and Masada, and a series of meetings with writers, policy analysts, academics and writers. I... by Thomas Sowell | Jun 18, 2008 | POLITICS
The obsession of many high school students and their parents about getting into a prestige college or university is part of the social scene of our time. So is the experience of parents going deep into hock to finance sending a son or daughter off to Ivy U. or the... by Walter Williams | Jun 18, 2008 | POLITICS
TSA has its rules and Williams has his, and one of mine is to avoid tyrants and idiots.
by Thomas Sowell | Jun 17, 2008 | POLITICS
Only with Tim Russert’s sudden death at the age of 58 has his true stature as a landmark journalist become as widely recognized as it has long deserved to be. To ask who will replace him as host of “Meet the Press” is to confront the reality that... by Damon Payne | Jun 16, 2008 | POLITICS, Regulation
In an article on Ars Technica, a lobbyist for the cable industry is quoted as saying that deregulation allows vendors to innovate faster and is a pro-consumer move. The article’s author, however, cries that past evidence shows that deregulation has always... by Richard E. Ralston | Jun 12, 2008 | Healthcare
Americans did not invent democracy. What America rightly did, for the first time in history, was institutionalize the concept of limited government–based not on majority rule, but on individual rights. Sadly, this foundation is not properly recognized and is... by Elan Journo | Jun 12, 2008 | POLITICS
It’s staggering to think that as we march toward a seventh year at war, Iraq (let alone Afghanistan) is hardly an issue on the campaign trail. Of course, nobody has forgotten about the war. But there’s been no substantive debate on it, either. John McCain,... by Walter Williams | Jun 11, 2008 | POLITICS
Let’s do a thought experiment asking whether Americans are for or against slavery. You might say, “What are you talking about, Williams? We fought a war that cost over 600,000 lives to end slavery!” To get started, we might find a description that... by Thomas Sowell | Jun 10, 2008 | POLITICS
Now that Senator Barack Obama has become the Democrats’ nominee for President of the United States, to the cheers of the media at home and abroad, he has written a letter to the Secretary of Defense, in a tone as if he is already President, addressing one of his...
