Defending Colonel Gregory “Pappy” Boyington

According to the University of Washington student government, university alumnus Gregory “Pappy” Boyington is not a person university students should strive to emulate and he should not be honored with a memorial on campus because as a Marine Corps...

Liberal Hypocrisies

John Q. Liberal is a professor at a local college. On Monday he gives a speech in which he denounces capitalism and the profit motive, and praises environmentalism as the highest moral ideal. When his speech is over, he confronts the organizer of the talk....

Spoiled Brat Media

The first revolt of the American colonists against their British rulers was immortalized by Ralph Waldo Emerson as “the shot heard round the world.” Vice President Dick Cheney’s hunting accident has now become the shot heard round the Beltway. The...

Modern Day Silly Talk

President Bush, during his State of the Union address, said, “America is addicted to oil, which is often imported from unstable parts of the world.” I decided to check out “addiction” in Merriam-Webster’s dictionary and found:...

The HAMAS Pledge of Global Warfare

Many western intellectuals and politicians claim that the Middle East groups advocating violence are not really religious, but rather political fascists. This directly contradicts the claims made by these groups themselves, who do not separate religion from politics,...

Two Crises

This nation is facing two crises — one phony and one real. Both in the media and in politics, the phony crisis is getting virtually all the attention. Like the French official in “Casablanca,” politicians and much of the media are shocked, shocked,...