Much fuss has been made recently about George W. Bush's alleged drug usage. Apparently fearful of a scandal, Governor Bush has dodged the issue -- with disturbingly Presidential style -- creating a bigger scandal. Whether he has used drugs or not, he would have done...
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Horowitz: Guns Don’t Kill Black People, Other Blacks Do
"So many racists, so little time." Black Time magazine editor Jack E. White fired that shot at David Horowitz, the "conservative" head of an organization called The Center for the Study of Popular Culture. And get a load of White's headline: "A Real, Live Bigot."...
George W. Bush’s Contradictory Stand on Abortion
George W. Bush holds a most contradictory stand on abortion. Earlier this decade he said: "I do not like abortions. I will do everything in my power to restrict abortions." Yet when asked if he would seek a constitutional ban on all abortions, he replied in the...
Did Thomas Jefferson Father Slave Children?
The recently publicized DNA evidence claiming to show Thomas Jefferson had fathered a child with his black slave, Sally Hemmings, illustrates the difference between the way evidence is handled in a court of law and the way it is handled by the popular press.
Let Not Thy Left Hand
The differences between the actions allowed to private parties on one hand and to the Postal Service and Internal Revenue Service on the other, are examples of a reversal of the proper relationship between the government and the governed.
Feminism and The World Cup
Women’s soccer enthusiasts screamed foul when, during the 1996 Olympics, NBC gave only scant attention to the victorious women’s soccer team.
The Government’s Assault on Sexual Pleasure
Six woman recently file suite against the state of Alabama over a law it enacted last year regarding vibrators and other sex toys. The law states that selling or distributing "any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the...
A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and “Naming Names”
The following statement originally appeared as an advertisement, placed by Elia Kazan in the New York Times, April 12, 1952.In the past weeks intolerable rumors about my political position have been circulating in New York and Hollywood. I want to make my stand...
Hate Crime Laws Will Spawn Thought Police
We should insist on the one principle that forms the foundation for the protection of all rights; that the purpose of law is to punish criminals for initiating force against others-not for holding bad ideas.”
Blacklists Are Not Censorship
There is no such thing as “private censorship.” It is only when government uses its coercive powers to inhibit speech that censorship occurs.
Bad Ideas Equal Boring Sex
A recently released University of Chicago survey suggests that sex is among the last things on the minds of too many American couples. The study concluded that 31 percent of men and 43 percent of women regularly have no interest in sex--with boredom ranking as the...
The “Sensitive” Road to Censorship
During the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, people of that court replaced saying the word "nigger"(as used by former LA police detective Mark Fuhrman) with "the 'N'-word." Last year, Merriam-Webster was asked by certain people to omit the said racial epithet from their...
A Double Standard of Hypocrisy: Feminism’s Love Affair with President Clinton
Why have certain feminists refused to demand Bill Clinton's resignation? For in his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, he committed an act of "sexual harassment" that these feminists eagerly apply to other violators of it, whose resignation or termination from their...
The Clinton Impeachment: No Imperial Presidency
The supporters of the President and, apparently, a majority of the American public, believe that the President should be exempt from laws and sanctions to which ordinary citizens are subject.
The True Meaning of the Takings Clause
Legal services to the poor should be funded voluntarily, not by expropriation.
Sovereign Immunity
How does having legal immunity for completely arbitrary acts preserve this confidence? In Ayn Rand’s words, “blank out.”
Line Item Veto Case Decided in Supreme Court
“Liberty is always at stake when one or more of the branches seek to transgress the separation of powers.”
The “Larry List” of the most fascinating women in politics
What do Monica Lewinsky, tennis star Venus Williams and television's Buffy the Vampire Slayer have in common? They all made the George magazine list of the 20 Most Fascinating Women in Politics. That's right, politics. And what do Attorney General Janet Reno and...
Sex, Lies, Politics, and Clinton
Monica Lewinsky is reported to have testified before a grand jury that President Bill Clinton did have sexual relations with her.Given that Clinton lied in 1992 about having extramarital sex with Gennifer Flowers, in order to get elected, who can be surprised that he...
National Organization for Women, R.I.P.
The National Organization for Women, RIP.This organization, AWOL on Paula Jones/Kathleen Willey/Monica Lewinsky/Dolly Kyle Browning, introduces a new and worthy target: Leonardo DiCaprio. That's right, the star of "Titanic." That Leonardo DiCaprio. See, a movie studio...
The Line-Item Veto Act: Conjoining What Was Meant To Be Asunder
The Line-Item Veto Act is an inexcusable invasion of the Legislative Branch’s lawmaking authority,
Gun Control and The Right to Self-Defense
The gun control debate should be addressed as a debate over individual rights.
The Lewinsky Sex Allegations Against Clinton are Totally Believable
Clinton’s “political deftness” or pragmatism explains his immorality and recklessness, and is fully compatible with the Lewinsky sex allegations made against him, true or not.
The Line-Item Veto Is A Bad Idea
The line-item veto power thereby grants the President implicit legislative powers. This is clearly not the way to restrain Congressional spending; indeed, in the long-run it can only increase it.
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