by Roger Simon | Sep 12, 2001 | POLITICS, Terrorism
In the past, the United States has always tried to be “proportional” in its response to terrorism. A terrorist group blows up a U.S. embassy somewhere, and we make a measured response: We blow up a terrorist training base or we hit a bomb factory. And...
by Larry Elder | Sep 11, 2001 | POLITICS
“There are practically no people of color at the top,” said NAACP President Kweisi Mfume. “There aren’t any African-Americans who can green-light a show, hire and fire a director or make any real decisions.” A genie suddenly appears. With...
by Jeff Jacoby | Sep 11, 2001 | POLITICS
In the summer of 1997, a young Israeli art student named Tatiana Susskin drew a caricature portraying the Prophet Mohammed as a pig and tacked up copies of it on Arab storefronts in Hebron. She could hardly have devised a more inflammatory insult. The crude leaflets...
by Robert W Tracinski | Sep 10, 2001 | Antitrust & Monopolies, POLITICS
First the good news: The new administration’s officials in the Department of Justice have decided not to murder the Microsoft Corporation and carve up its corpse. Now the bad news: They have chosen the more humane option of slow torture. The Justice...
by Jeff Jacoby | Sep 10, 2001 | POLITICS
Free trade across international borders is not just good for business or good for job-creation. It is good — period. So said President Bush in a remarkable speech earlier this year, when he made the case for free trade on unabashedly moral grounds. “Open...
by Thomas Sowell | Sep 9, 2001 | Economics, POLITICS
To know what economics is, we must first know what an economy is. Perhaps most of us think of an economy as a system for the production and distribution of the goods and services we use in everyday life. That is true as far as it goes, but it does not go far enough....
by Michelle Malkin | Sep 9, 2001 | POLITICS
President Bush showed spirited common sense on environmental policies — before he got elected. “I don’t believe in command and control out of Washington, D.C.,” Bush said during the second presidential debate last fall. “Not all wisdom is...
by Walter Williams | Sep 8, 2001 | POLITICS
John McWhorter, linguistics professor at the Berkeley campus of the University of California, has written a compelling essay in the summer 2001 issue of City Journal titled, “Toward a Usable Black History.” Last year, he wrote “Losing the Race:...
by Thomas Sowell | Sep 7, 2001 | POLITICS, United Nations
Perhaps Secretary of State Colin Powell’s decision to pull the American delegation out of the so-called U.N. World Conference Against Racism in Durban, South Africa, will be just a footnote in history. But we can at least hope that it may be a turning point...
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