by Walter Williams | Mar 21, 2002 | POLITICS
In 1996, California’s voters passed Proposition 209, which outlawed racial quotas for college admission. That didn’t mean the end of the quest for racial quotas and the euphemisms for it: affirmative action, diversity and multiculturalism. The diversity... by James Glassman | Mar 20, 2002 | POLITICS
Could the typical small investor have discovered a year ago that Enron Corp. was on the brink of disaster? It’s highly unlikely. Still, if you looked for the right thing, you never would have bought Enron stock in the first place. The right thing is cash. The... by Uriah Kriegel | Mar 20, 2002 | Middle East & Israel, WORLD
Amid the surging violence in the Middle East, more and more voices on the left are calling on the Bush administration to take a more active role in mediating a workable détente. Israel and the Palestinians must return to the negotiating table, we are told, and only... by James Glassman | Mar 19, 2002 | POLITICS
To many investors, the lesson of the Enron scandal is never to trust a company’s earnings reports and balance sheets again. But that’s nonsense. Yes, there are unscrupulous corporate managers and auditors out there, but the best way to protect yourself is... by Walter Williams | Mar 19, 2002 | POLITICS
Since the 1960s, academic achievement scores have plummeted, but student grade point averages (GPAs) have skyrocketed. The Academy of Arts and Sciences reports that at Harvard, for instance, A’s were awarded to 46 percent of students in 1996 (versus 22 percent... by Sallie Baliunas | Mar 18, 2002 | Environment
Is science necessary anymore for defining and solving true environmental problems? President Bush’s plan to semi-combat carbon dioxide is unworthy of his principled stand taken last year against the Kyoto Protocol, the international agreement to limit emissions... by Thomas Sowell | Mar 18, 2002 | Elections, Free Speech, POLITICS
The Enron scandal was welcomed like an unexpected Christmas present by Democrats who, together with much of the media, have tried to tie the scandal to the Bush administration. However, as more and more information has come out about Enron, it has become clear that... by James Glassman | Mar 17, 2002 | Environment
Sheer panic. That’s the only way to describe the reaction of green activists to a fact-filled 515-page book by a young Danish statistician, published in English late last year by Cambridge University Press. The statistician, a slim, laid-back former Greenpeace... by Michelle Malkin | Mar 17, 2002 | POLITICS
The six-month anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is upon us. Here are a half-dozen unsolved mysteries still on my mind: What really happened on United Airlines Flight 93? As the Philadelphia Daily News reported back in November, many folks in Shanksville,...
