by Thomas Sowell | Jul 2, 2004 | POLITICS
Ever wonder why some people hate America so? This is not a new phenomenon nor one confined to foreigners. More than 20 years ago, Eric Hoffer said: “Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America.”... by Edward Cline and J. David Lewis | Jul 1, 2004 | POLITICS, Terrorism
Michael Moore’s “documentary” Fahrenheit 9/11, having won the French Palm d’Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the month, opened on June 25th in some 800 American theaters. In its first weekend, it led the box office with a $21.8 million... by Thomas Sowell | Jul 1, 2004 | POLITICS
When you have seen scenes of poverty and squalor in many Third World countries, either in person or in pictures, have you ever wondered why we in America have been spared such a fate? When you have learned of the bitter oppressions that so many people have suffered... by Larry Elder | Jul 1, 2004 | Middle East & Israel, POLITICS
A majority of Americans, according to a recent poll, now call going into Iraq a mistake. Many Iraqis apparently failed to get the memo. A poll commissioned by the Coalition Provisional Authority found 63 percent of Iraqis expect conditions to improve after the... by Fred L. Smith, Jr. | Jun 30, 2004 | POLITICS
Nobel Prize economist Ronald Coase long ago warned of a political risk–that of wishing to be an “economic statesman,” which he defined as a person who gives answers when there were none to give. The newest such risk was the Securities and Exchange... by Walter Williams | Jun 30, 2004 | POLITICS
Did you learn that the United States is rich because we have bountiful natural resources? That has to be nonsense. Africa and South America are probably the richest continents in natural resources but are home to the world’s most miserably poor people. On the... by Ralph R. Reiland | Jun 29, 2004 | POLITICS
The big news in town is that “Ladies Night” is illegal. Earlier this month, it had top billing on the marquee at La Costa, a seashore bar at the intersection where New York meets Philadelphia. But New Jersey’s top civil rights official, J. Frank... by Cheryl K. Chumley | Jun 29, 2004 | POLITICS
On June 18, Congress cleared the way for the president to sign into law a bill committing $25 million over five years to save turtles. As expensively ridiculous as this taxpayer-funded initiative seems, its creation and ultimate passage cannot be blamed solely on... by Thomas Sowell | Jun 29, 2004 | POLITICS, Price Controls
A recent front-page story in the Wall Street Journal told of rising hunger and malnutrition amid chronic agricultural surpluses in India. India is now exporting wheat, and even donating some to Afghanistan, while malnutrition is a growing problem within India itself....
