by Alexander Marriott | Jul 11, 2004 | POLITICS
Jose Contreras. Recognize the name? If the answer is no, then I’ll tell you. He is a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees who is currently working with a 5-3 record. But the purpose of this article is not to discuss his pitching, but to shed some light on... by Thomas Sowell | Jul 10, 2004 | POLITICS
This may go down in history as the year when an attempt to win an election, at all costs, led to longer run disasters that make any election pale into insignificance. The biggest and loudest political rhetoric of this year is that President Bush “lied”... by Thomas Sowell | Jul 9, 2004 | POLITICS
Now that Senator John Kerry has named Senator John Edwards as his vice-presidential running mate, we need to examine the reality behind the images that both men have projected. Senator Kerry has been busy posing for the media shooting guns, playing hockey, declaring... by Larry Elder | Jul 9, 2004 | POLITICS, United Nations
“Let me tell you a secret,” said former Vice President Al Gore recently, President Bush is a “moral coward.” Moral coward? Why the latest attack? Well, Gore accused the president of an unwillingness “to stand up and say ‘no.’... by Thomas Sowell | Jul 8, 2004 | POLITICS
To those who do not want to face up to hard and brutal choices in a nuclear age, the magic formula is to turn to something called “the international community” — or, more concretely, the United Nations or “our European allies.” As with so... by Walter Williams | Jul 7, 2004 | POLITICS
Ever since Rachel Carson’s 1962 book “Silent Spring,” environmental extremists have sought to ban all DDT use. Using phony studies from the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council, the environmental activist-controlled... by Dr Michael Hurd | Jul 6, 2004 | POLITICS
It’s something beyond sickening to hear the news media fawn, almost in admiration, at how Saddam Hussein “still has spirit” and “found his way” under difficult circumstances in court today. Dan Rather’s gentle tone is particularly... by Harry Binswanger | Jul 5, 2004 | Foreign Policy, POLITICS
I have just finished reading, with great pleasure, Peter Schwartz’s new booklet, The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America (published by ARI Press). In just 60 clear, hard-hitting pages, Mr. Schwartz lays out the essentials of a proper... by Tom DeWeese | Jul 5, 2004 | POLITICS
I’m a baby boomer and that’s a curse. You see I’m stuck with the idiots from the sixties till my dying day as they whine and moan about injustice and mentally dwell forever in the days of tie-die shirts, incense, and free love. The news media, now...
