Shakedown at Abercrombie & Fitch: White and Wong Profiteers
Abercrombie & Fitch tried to sell some silly T-shirts with Asian caricatures a few weeks ago. One showed a pair of slant-eyed Chinese men with the phrase, “Wong Brothers Laundry Service: Two Wongs Can Make It White.” Some very loud, wired and whiny...Conference in Cloud Cuckoo Land
On Thursday, the Bush administration announced that it would join with the United Nations, the European Union and Russia to host an international peace conference to settle the conflict in the Middle East. No location was announced for this meeting, but I can suggest...Secession or Nullification
A couple of weeks ago, I reviewed Loyola University (Maryland) professor of economics Thomas DiLorenzo’s “The Real Lincoln,” a book that presented abundant evidence that most of the Founders took the right of state secession for granted. Despite that...Israel or the Palestinians? Making the Moral Choice
As the Israeli military stomps Palestinian gunmen and levels their lairs, the chorus of voices chanting “restraint!” has unfortunately been joined by the Bush administration, albeit with less gusto than the Europeans. But its detractors notwithstanding,...Are We Safer?
The carnage begun that awful day in the Iranian desert in 1980 will not run its course until Americans understand how much they need to fear and loathe militant Islam.
