by Mark Da Cunha | Aug 19, 2004 | Psychology & Living
After three out of six rotations in the Men’s All-around Olympic Gymnastics, American gymnast Paul Hamm was ranked first place in the standings. His next event was the vault. Hamm’s vault was to be a Tsukahara–named after Japanese gymnast Mitsuo...
by Ralph R. Reiland | Aug 19, 2004 | Crime, POLITICS
“In the United States, there are now more than 318,000 people behind bars for violations of drug prohibition, more than the number of persons incarcerated for all crimes in the United Kingdom, France, Germany, Italy and Spain combined,” writes Jeffrey A....
by Cheryl K. Chumley | Aug 18, 2004 | Environment
The Boy Scouts of America’s newest merit badge is surely to include the U.N. emblem. That’s because this American institution has just become partners with the United Nations Environment Program, the global network that advances the radical principle of...
by John David Lewis | Aug 17, 2004 | POLITICS, Religion
Picture this scenario: a group of heavily armed Roman Catholics, led by a priest, swarms into St. Joseph’s Cathedral in New York. They claim it as a military base. They fire grenades from its windows. They set explosive charges, in order to blow it up and blame...
by Walter Williams | Aug 17, 2004 | POLITICS
Positive reader response to “Socialism Is Evil” was quite surprising.
by Thomas Sowell | Aug 17, 2004 | POLITICS
August 20th marks the 40th anniversary of one of the major turning points in American social history. That was the date on which President Lyndon Johnson signed legislation creating his “War on Poverty” program in 1964. Never had there been such a...
by Wayne Dunn | Aug 16, 2004 | POLITICS
Is there something special about health insurance that makes it crisis-prone? I mean, we never hear about the horrible “house insurance crisis” or the “spiraling cost of auto insurance.” It wouldn’t be too hard to create such a crisis...
by Dr Michael Hurd | Aug 16, 2004 | Elections, POLITICS
Q: Dr. Hurd, you sometimes imply that it would be worse to vote for John Kerry than for President Bush. But President Bush wants to push his religious agenda on the nation. Isn’t that worse than John Kerry? A: Bush’s religious agenda is bad indeed. I will...
by Cheryl K. Chumley | Aug 15, 2004 | POLITICS, United Nations
As if our nation’s free-market ideal isn’t damaged enough — witness, if you will, the generally lengthy permitting process for businesses and the prevalence of zoning laws, environmental mandates, eminent domain abuses and hefty tax burdens that...