by Thomas Sowell | May 19, 2003 | POLITICS
The New York Times’ famous motto — “All the News That’s Fit to Print” — has been dishonored by the revelation that one of its own reporters has been printing stuff that he made up or stolen from other publications. Isolated scandals...
by Jeff Jacoby | May 18, 2003 | Cuba & Castro, POLITICS
“Cuba is an anachronism in our hemisphere, an anachronism on the face of the Earth,” Secretary of State Colin Powell remarked earlier this month. “And the whole international community should be condemning Cuba.” Who could disagree? In a...
by Nicholas Provenzo | May 16, 2003 | POLITICS
The following is an excerpt of an address given by CAC Chairman Nicholas Provenzo to the Colorado Medical Society on May 4, 2003. Ladies and Gentlemen, Good Morning. I thank you for your kind attention this morning and I thank the staff and directors of the Colorado...
by Walter Williams | May 15, 2003 | POLITICS
Maytag recently announced that it’s moving its Galesburg, Ill., production facility to Mexico. A group called Americans Against NAFTA has protested Maytag’s decision. Spokesman Russ Anderson said, “We want to spread the word of what we believe Maytag...
by Ralph R. Reiland | May 15, 2003 | POLITICS, Religion
Here’s what George Bernard Shaw said about religious fundamentalists: “There are scores of human insects who are ready at a moment’s notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject.” A few carloads of those insects were swarming...
by Carter Laren | May 15, 2003 | POLITICS
Once again, someone has managed to blame a few pounds of metal for the demonstrated ineptitude of a few pounds of gray matter. Last week, jurors in a California civil court ruled that gun manufacturer Bryco/Jennings must pay over $50 million to a 16-year-old who...
by Andrew Bernstein | May 14, 2003 | POLITICS
Most Americans think slavery ended with the 13th Amendment in 1865. It did, in the United States. But it is alive and well today in the Sudan and Mauritania. In these African countries, blacks suffer at the hands of Arabs, who ransack villages, kill the men and sell...
by Michael Giorgino | May 14, 2003 | Military, POLITICS
Burning American flags and shouting anti-American slogans, hundreds of protesters broke through a fence at a Puerto Rico bombing range two weeks ago, smashing military vehicles with sledgehammers. The purpose of these “playful” citizens was to celebrate...
by Larry Solomon | May 13, 2003 | Cuba & Castro, POLITICS
Fidel Castro worked miracles after leading the Revolution that liberated Cuba from the dictator, Batista. The statistics are there, for any fool to see. Soon after Castro came to power in 1959, he decided to eliminate illiteracy in the island nation. As he stated in...