An Axis of Valor

Last week, the leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark and the Czech Republic publicly declared their support for America against Iraq. Joining together in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal, The Times of London and other...

Greenspan Returns to “Barbarous Relic” Gold

Gold traded above $370 per ounce at the end of last month, for the first time in six years. Anxiety about war with Iraq has no doubt contributed to gold’s surge — but a look at history suggests that gold may be telling us as much about Alan Greenspan as it...

The Other Lott Controversy

For those few of us in the mainstream media who openly support Second Amendment rights, research scholar John Lott has been — or rather, had been — an absolute godsend. Armed with top-notch credentials (including stints at Stanford, Rice, UCLA, Wharton,...

State of the Union, Then and Now

While the nation’s pundits are praising the President for his State of the Union speech, conservatives are falling all over themselves lauding Bush for explaining why the weakest state sponsor of terrorism — Iraq — ought to be attacked. Pundits,...

Hail Columbia

On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Commander Rick Husband, pilot William “Willy” McCool, flight engineer Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist Michael Anderson, medical officer and flight surgeon Laurel Clark, mission specialist David Brown, and Israeli astronaut...

No Preschooler Left Behind

Thomas Watkins, Michigan’s superintendent of public schools, is on a mission to expand his authority beyond the traditional K-12 boundaries. If given his way, every child in the state–practically from birth–would become the exclusive property of...