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... by Thomas Jefferson | Jul 4, 2004 | POLITICS
Though the Declaration of Independence was assigned to a committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert B. Livingston; the document is primarily Jefferson’s work, aside from a few editorial exceptions–in... by Thomas Sowell | Jul 3, 2004 | POLITICS
Ever wonder why people who hate America live in America? At a soccer match between Mexico and the United States a few years ago, the stands were full of Mexican flags. The fans booed when “The Star-Spangled Banner” was played and those few fans who raised...
