Letters: Its Time to Defend Capitalism

It’s time to defend capitalism The sworn enemy of the terrorists who destroyed the World Trade Centre and murdered thousands of innocent people is capitalism. The virtues and values of capitalism — individual rights, free trade, advanced technology,...

Remember the Constitution

“In every generation, the world has produced enemies of human freedom,” President Bush reminded us in his remarks at the National Cathedral. “They have attacked America because we are freedom’s home and defender, and the commitment of our...

America’s War Song: The Star-Spangled Banner

It was September 14. Washington, D.C., had been attacked, and one of its most prominent monuments had been burned by the enemy. A Washington lawyer sat in the early morning gloom and fretted over the fate of his country. The year was 1814, the burned monument was the...

More Than a “Warning Shot”

To get a good idea of how the United States should respond to the attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon, consider what happened to the terrorists who bombed the U.S.S. Cole as it lay in port last October in the Middle East country of Yemen. Nothing. A...

What a Real War Looks Like

Everyone acknowledges that Tuesday’s terrorist attacks on New York and Washington were acts of war. But, liberal commentators have been quick to object, we do not know whom to attack, how to attack, or how to escape a so-called “cycle of violence.”...

What Must America Do Now

Why on earth have we been giving tens of millions of dollars in foreign aid to an unrepentant state sponsor of terrorism that continues to harbor one of our worst enemies? The facts: Osama bin Laden has long been one of America’s most wanted fugitives from...

We Dare Not Tempt Them With Weakness

While the casualties in the terrorist attacks are expected to run into the tens of thousands, in a larger sense the casualties run into the millions because we are all affected now and will be as long as we live. People from all over the country have kept the phone...