by Thomas Sowell | Sep 7, 2001 | POLITICS
With police on hand to try to maintain order, the Loudoun County (Virginia) board of supervisors recently imposed severe restrictions on the building of homes, despite angry protesters. The board’s plan allows only one house to be built for every 10 acres in...
by Michelle Malkin | Sep 7, 2001 | Education, Guns, POLITICS
When the new school year begins, Deena Esteban will not be among the legions of educators welcoming students back to class. That’s because Mrs. Esteban, a 43-year-old art teacher in Prince William County, Va., lost the job she loved after being convicted of a...
by Don Luskin | Sep 7, 2001 | POLITICS
What inspiring, bullish news. It’s the dawn of a great new era. I can feel my animal spirits rising. That’s right. Didn’t you feel the same way yesterday when you heard that the Department of Justice wouldn’t seek the break-up of Microsoft?...
by Thomas Sowell | Sep 6, 2001 | POLITICS
The predictable media reaction to Gary Condit’s bobbing and weaving has been to say that he should be candid, come clean and “get all this behind you.” It is the kind of advice that they have offered repeatedly over the years to people in trouble,...
by Larry Elder | Sep 6, 2001 | POLITICS
“Society pushes you back into the same pile of s— you came out of.” Chino, a “hardened gang member,” offered this excuse as his rationale for joining a gang. Gang violence is up, says a chilling new Time magazine article on Los Angeles...
by Walter Williams | Sep 5, 2001 | POLITICS
There’s the old admonition: It’s better to be safe than sorry. The fact of life is that one can be both safe and sorry — that’s if we acknowledge the consequences of having too much safety. Let’s look at it. National Transportation Safety...
by Alan Luber | Sep 5, 2001 | POLITICS
Previously, I told you that I would offer up my opinion of the one technology company to watch for evidence of a broad recovery in the economy and the markets. Today I make good on that promise. I told you that my choice would surprise you. It’s not an obvious...
by Don Luskin | Sep 4, 2001 | POLITICS
Hewlett Packard buying Compaq isn’t exactly going to save the world. If that’s the best thing this market can come up with as a catalyst, we’re in a heap of trouble. About the only good thing you can say about the market right now is that the major...
by Robert W Tracinski | Sep 3, 2001 | POLITICS, United Nations
The UN World Conference Against Racism has met and taken up its primary agenda: the praise and protection of racists. The tone was set on the first day of the conference, when that paragon of progressive politics, Yasser Arafat, took the podium to condemn Israel as a...