by Richard Winkler | Oct 24, 2006 | Religion
When the Koran or a Mullah asks followers to subjugate or kill those who do not uphold the ideas of Islam, the line from civilized dialogue to rule by force is crossed. Someone who is required to “accept” Islam at the point of a gun has not made a moral...
by Leonard Peikoff | Oct 19, 2006 | Elections
Is there any point in voting for candidates of either entrenched party?
by Walter Williams | Oct 18, 2006 | POLITICS
Patrick Buchanan’s recent syndicated column titled “New Deal for U.S. Manufacturers” stokes the fires of misunderstanding and panic. Mr. Buchanan, my longtime friend, is right about a lot of things, but he’s wrong about trade. First, he...
by Ralph R. Reiland | Oct 17, 2006 | POLITICS, Terrorism
The good news out of Munich is that BMW has come up with something that could do a better job than the CIA in defunding al-Qaida. The BMW Hydrogen 7, available next year in a limited series of a few hundred cars in the United States and other countries, runs on either...
by John David Lewis | Oct 16, 2006 | Military, POLITICS
A New York Times article recently described the military skills our soldiers will need to engage in the operations our politicians are asking them to perform (“Military Hones a New Strategy on Insurgency,” October 5, 2006). The new doctrine renounces...
by Thomas Sowell | Oct 15, 2006 | POLITICS
There are very few saints among people of any race, religion, national origin, or sexual orientation. None should be above criticism. Increasingly, however, there are tighter and tighter restrictions on what you can say about more and more groups. San Francisco radio...
by Roy Spencer | Oct 14, 2006 | POLITICS
The Royal Society of London, England’s premier scientific society, has sent a letter to Exxon-Mobil asking that the energy giant stop funding organizations which have “misrepresented the science of climate change by outright denial of the evidence.”...
by Robert C. Balling Jr. | Oct 13, 2006 | Environment
Al Gore’s “An Inconvenient Truth” opened around the country earlier this year. In the film Gore pulls together evidence from every corner of the globe to convince us that climate change is happening fast, we are to blame, and if we don’t act...
by Daniel Pipes | Oct 12, 2006 | POLITICS
A minor issue at the Minneapolis-St. Paul International Airport (MSP) has potentially major implications for the future of Islam in the United States. Starting about a decade ago, some Muslim taxi drivers serving the airport declared that they would not transport...