Guns, Kids, and Condoms

Let us, for a moment, take the sex-education pushers at their word: If you teach a child how to use a condom, you’re promoting safety — not usage.That’s what a new review of sex-ed curricula claims. “The overwhelming weight of evidence shows...

Kissing and Coddling China’s Dictators

Our ruined EP-3 surveillance plane is still parked on that Chinese runway, months after it was forced down and its crew taken hostage. At least six Chinese-American scholars have been jailed in China on groundless spying charges; their families have not been allowed...

Are Energy Suppliers Ripping of California?

Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? California Attorney General Bill Lockyer apparently missed that lesson in law school. As Californians face rolling blackouts in the grip of their so-called energy crisis, the state’s top politicians busy...

July 4th: Love it or Lose It

We have belatedly come to appreciate “the greatest generation” that fought and died in World War II to preserve the freedom that Americans enjoy today. But the disappearance of history from our schools, and its virtual disappearance as a requirement for...

The Rule of Law in America

What should be the characteristics of laws in a free society? Let’s think about baseball rules (laws) as a means to approach this question. Some players, through no fault of their own, hit fewer home runs than others. In order to create baseball justice, how...

California’s Philosophical Blackout

With the arrival of summer’s sweltering heat, California’s electricity demand will rise as people engage in the perfectly natural act of manipulating the environment, as through air-conditioning, to make life better. But electricity supply will not be able...

The Scientist Trap

Ten days ago, we saw the headlines: “Panel Tells Bush Global Warming is Getting Worse.” According to dozens of press accounts, a panel of distinguished climatologists from the National Academy of Sciences had provided new confirmation that “global...