by Walter Williams | Aug 25, 2004 | POLITICS
President Bush’s foreign-policy critics at home and abroad share characteristics and visions that have previously led to worldwide chaos and untold loss of lives. These people believe that negotiation, appeasement and caving in to the demands of vicious...
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 25, 2004 | Asia, POLITICS
In addition to two key books about John Kerry — Douglas Brinkley’s pro-Kerry book “Tour of Duty” and John O’Neill’s anti-Kerry book “Unfit for Command” — there is another book that would be well worth reading...
by James Glassman | Aug 24, 2004 | POLITICS
Democrats and their allies in the media have been giddy the latest jobs report. The New York Times said it showed that July “was a sputtering, tepid month” — a boon to Democrats. John Kerry said Friday’s report showed that instead of...
by Our Readers | Aug 24, 2004 | POLITICS
Clarifying the Meaning of Initiation of Physical ForceAugust 21, 2004While I agree with the administration’s use of preemptive attacks against the Hussein regime, I note that Dr. Hurd’s endorsement occurs in an article linked to the Capitalism web site in...
by Paul Blair | Aug 24, 2004 | Education
The New York Sun has wisely opposed campaign finance regulations as violating the freedom of speech. The Sun has also argued that New York City’s public campaign financing system deserves to be scrapped. Wasn’t it Thomas Jefferson who wrote “that to...
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 24, 2004 | Asia, POLITICS
Senator John Kerry’s running mate, Senator John Edwards, has said melodramatically: “Ask the men who served with him in Vietnam!” But now that men who served with Kerry in Vietnam are coming forward and contradicting Kerry’s version of what...
by Don Luskin | Aug 23, 2004 | POLITICS
Crude is quickly approaching $50 a barrel, leaving no doubt in my mind that oil is in a speculative bubble — very much like what happened to the NASDAQ in 1999 and 2000. Previoiusly I wrote about some of the forces behind the alarming price rise: increasing...
by Nicholas Provenzo | Aug 22, 2004 | Asia, POLITICS
According to its publisher, conservative columnist Michelle Malkin’s controversial new book In Defense of Internment: The Case for Racial Profiling in World War II and the War on Terror in support of the WWII incarceration of Americans of Japanese descent argues...
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 22, 2004 | Asia, POLITICS
It is a painful reflection on the political atmosphere today that, in an era when nuclear devastation may strike American soil within our lifetime, courtesy of terrorists supplied with nuclear weapons by North Korea or Iran, we are arguing about what did or...
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