by Walter Williams | Sep 26, 2001 | POLITICS, Regulation
Secretary of Transportation Norman Y. Mineta, Czar Norman, has ordered new, ill-thought out, oppressive airline regulations in the wake of recent terrorist attacks. Among them: a ban on knives — plastic or steel — anywhere in the airport and on airplanes,...
by Tara Smith | Sep 25, 2001 | Military, POLITICS
The case for large-scale, decisive US military action in response to the Sept. 11th massacres is two-fold: justice and self-defense. Justice consists of treating people as they deserve. It is exercised by rewarding and encouraging the good in others and by punishing...
by Robert W Tracinski | Sep 24, 2001 | POLITICS
Now that we have officially more or less committed ourselves to war, many will now object that this mission poses too many strategic pitfalls — that the Middle East is a vast quagmire, that the enemy is too elusive, that this will be “another...
by Alan Luber | Sep 24, 2001 | POLITICS
Remember the movie Die Hard? At one point in the movie, Takagi (James Shigeta) says to Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman), “You want money? What kind of terrorists are you?” To which Gruber replies in one of the more memorable quotes from the movie, “Who...
by Thomas Sowell | Sep 23, 2001 | POLITICS
Although most Americans seem to understand the gravity of the situation that terrorism has put us in — and the need for some serious military response, even if that means dangers to the lives of us all — there are still those who insist on posturing, while...
by John David Lewis | Sep 23, 2001 | POLITICS
The attack of September 11, 2001 was only one incident in a concerted war on western civilization. The attackers are united not by any organized conspiracy, but by a common hatred, and a common desire. Their hatred is of life and their desire is death. The attack...
by Michelle Malkin | Sep 22, 2001 | POLITICS
President Bush urged citizens this week to go back to work and try to restore normalcy to their everyday lives. Accordingly, the People’s Republic of Berkeley, Calif., wasted no time in returning to its business as usual: stifling political dissent under the...
by Abe Novick | Sep 22, 2001 | POLITICS
When I lived in New York, I could look up at any hour of the day or night and see the World Trade Center. I took comfort in its presence and the knowledge that American freedom and the ideals of capitalism were hard at work. Especially at night, to look up and see the...
by Larry Elder | Sep 21, 2001 | POLITICS
We “need to understand the mind of a terrorist,” goes the refrain. No, we do not need to understand the mind of a terrorist so much as we need to understand the mind of an Arab Islamic “terrorist-victimcrat.” Following the bombings of two...
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