Every Election Day politicians, intellectuals, and activists propagate a seemingly patriotic but utterly un-American idea: the notion that our most important right–and the source of America’s greatness–is the right to vote. According to former...
POLITICS
Stop and Think, Part 3
There is a lot of inertia in politics. The “solid South” voted for Democrats in every Presidential election for more than a century. Blacks have voted for every Democratic candidate for President from Franklin D. Roosevelt to Al Gore. The Jewish vote has...
Stop and Think, Part 2
The latest irresponsible charge from John Kerry is that President Bush let Osama bin Laden escape. You would think we had bin Laden in custody and Bush left the door open. We never “let” bin Laden escape. We never had him. Bush didn’t even have...
Stop and Think
While many people are urging us to vote — regardless of for whom, for what, or for what reason — there are very few urging us to do what is far more important: Stop and think! Voting is not a matter of personal expression but a serious responsibility for...
Academics and Ideologies
It all started when Professor David M. O’Neill of Hunter College wrote in the NY Sun Oct. 4 maintaining that bias-free reporting is impossible because nobody can be free of ideology. Joseph Kellard had a letter in response . To which Professor O’Neill then...
PC Empowerment: Empowering Women By Leaving Them Defenseless
George Mason University is dedicated to empowering women. Take, for example, the “Turn Off the Violence Week” event that ran October 3rd-9th. The event, like similar events offered on college campus throughout the country, was a partnership between...
Kofi Annan Should Step Down From the United Nations
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan’s latest interview with British television, in which he dismissed the serious allegations of Oil-for-Food improprieties raised in the Duelfer Report, undermines his credibility and impartiality with regard to the Oil-for-Food...
Vote for President Bush
At this late date, after the three debates, the nature of this campaign is set, and the meaning of this election has come into focus for me. The meaning is: independence vs. dependence. The Bush policies favor America retaining its sovereignty–cooperating with...
Big Government’s Threat to Free Press
“They better hope we don’t win.” That’s the blunt warning political operative Chad Clanton recently delivered to the journalists at Sinclair Broadcasting. Clanton’s boss is John Kerry, the subject of a highly critical documentary Sinclair...
“Plans” Versus Realities
Who said, “if you hold your fire until you see the whites of his eyes, you will never know what hit you”? It was President Franklin D. Roosevelt and he said it on May 27, 1941. It applies even more today. If you are going to go to war against terrorists in...
Tax Cuts For The Rich
With the election season coming into the home stretch, the cry of “Tax cuts for the rich!” is ringing out across the land from Democrats desperate to regain power in Washington . Like many other political slogans, its popularity depends on slippery words...
Media Give Kerry a Pass During Debates
The post-debate media “truth squad” took little time in taking Bush to task for denying he ever said he “wasn’t that concerned” about Osama bin Laden. Please. Imagine Bush’s poll numbers in the event the military captures or kills...
ABC News or ABC Spin?
As if Dan Rather’s use of forged documents to try to discredit President Bush shortly before the election was not enough of a clue to the mainstream media’s political agenda, ABC News has now joined CBS News in the political spin game. What ABC News has...
Political Demagoguery
Politicians have a field day misleading Americans who, as a result of having been dumbed down by our education system, can’t think, reason or analyze. How many times have we heard the political lament “There are 43 million Americans without health...
Letters to the Editor: October 2004
October 18, 2004 Prosecuting “immoral price gougers” Dear Editor: Tommy Thompson, secretary of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services was wrong to exhort the 50 state-attorneys general to zealously prosecute “immoral price gougers” of...
The Real Debate in Healthcare: Bush and Kerry versus Free Market Medicine
To many it appears the Bush and Kerry healthcare plans are as different as an antibiotic and a placebo. However, in fundamental terms, both are prescribing the same “cure” to our healthcare system that has been offered for decades: greater doses of...
The United States of America Should Withdraw From the United Nations
There was a time when, if you wrote or spoke out against the United Nations, you would be dismissed as some “right-wing nutcase” who saw conspiracies or was some kind of “isolationist” who didn’t understand the need for an international...
The Safety Zealots
Nowhere is the tyranny of visions more absolute than with issues involving safety. Attempts to talk about costs, trade-offs or diminishing returns are only likely to provoke safety zealots to respond with something like, “If it saves just one human life, it is...
The Busybody Commissions of California
Some people think of California as a place where many kooky ideas originate. It is that but there is more to it than that. California has long had more than its fair share of busybodies with a vision of the world in which it is necessary for them to force other people...
The Tyranny of Visions
At long last there is some reconsideration of the child molestation hysteria that has sent innocent people to jail for long terms behind bars, often with zero evidence and with testimony from children who have been heavily pressured or manipulated by...
Blame America
The War on Terror involves more than military or intelligence, it involves winning the ideological struggle. Not there, but here. I once wrote about the way an elementary school teacher in Afghanistan discusses political science and history. The teacher holds up a...
Reducing Poverty by Reducing Government
Economic freedom, not government interference, is the means of overcoming poverty.
School Violence Toleration
I’m wondering just when parents, especially poor minorities, will refuse to tolerate day-to-day school conditions that most parents wouldn’t dream of tolerating. Lisa Snell, director of the Education and Child Welfare Program at the Los Angles-based Reason...
The Erosion of Property Rights
Imagine you’ve been enjoying your backyard picnic table and chairs for the past 10 years when suddenly, for no apparent reason, you are served notice from a government agency that you will be fined $6,000 a day unless you remove them. Or, imagine you would like...
The Intellectual Motor Behind SpaceShipOne
Burt Rutan may be famous for coming up with the ideas for his aircraft literally on paper napkins, but he meticulously assigns them a number. Hence the tiny plaque on SpaceShipOne, lost among the sponsors’ logos, which after interpretation reads “Mark 314,...
The Media’s Role
A joke has President Bush and the Pope sailing down the Potomac on the Presidential yacht. The wind blows the Pontiff’s cap off and it falls into the water. President Bush orders the yacht stopped, gets off and walks across the water to retrieve the Pope’s...
Unicorns, Jedi, and Plastic Guns
During the recent vice presidential debate, Senator Edwards criticized Vice President Cheney for voting “against banning plastic weapons that can pass through metal detectors.” The ban to which Edwards was referring was the Undetectable Firearms Act of...
Watch Both Boots
Remember “Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit the earth”? Today, it’s more like “Blessed are the young, for they shall inherit the debt.” The federal deficit this year will hit a record $422 billion, according to the latest...
UN Seeks New Environmental Treaty
Forty: That’s the number of global and regional legal documents already in existence that dictate what actions can and cannot be taken regarding the world’s forests. Forty-one: That’s the number the United Nations hopes to reach via a new treaty on...
Oracle is Free To Buy PeopleSoft: Chalk One Up for Capitalism
Despite record oil prices, rising interest rates, a flood of earnings warnings and a volatile election less than a month away, stocks have been heading steadily higher ever since they bottomed on August 12, with the beleaguered NASDAQ leading the way. Today’s...
Invasive Species: The Newest Threat to Property Rights
If you have foreign weeds, grass, trees, or shrubs on your property (and you most certainly do), you’re in trouble. Under “Invasive Species” provisions currently sitting in the Senate’s version of the Federal Transportation Bill (S. 1072), your...
The Academic Halls of Stupidity: Success Equals Effort
Benedict College in Columbia, S.C. , enforces an academic policy that defies belief. Say I’m a freshman taking your class in biology. I learn little from your lectures, assigned readings and homework. I do attend class every day, take notes and manage to average...
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