Back to school nowadays means back to classrooms, lessons and textbooks permeated by multiculturalism and its championing of “diversity.” Many parents and teachers regard multiculturalism as an indispensable educational supplement, a salutary influence...
POLITICS
Negotiating with Terrorists
Q: Dr. Hurd, I know you favor a strong stance against terrorism. However, I’m sure you disagree with the policy of the Bush Administration and Tony Blair in Britain to refuse to negotiate with the groups who practice beheading. People are dying in the most...
To Profile or Not to Profile?
Should law enforcement profile Muslims? Amnesty International USA answers emphatically no. It asserts in a report issued last week that “law enforcement’s use of race, religion, country of origin, or ethnic and religious appearance as a proxy for criminal...
FCC Should Not Regulate the Airwaves
Since the infamous “wardrobe malfunction” at the Super Bowl, there have been strident demands for a crackdown by a tougher, stricter Federal Communication Commission. The FCC’s various commissioners now call for the power to regulate cable...
John Kerry’s Blank Resume
If someone applied to you for a job but didn’t want to talk about what he has been doing in the last 20 years, wouldn’t you be suspicious? Might you not think he was insulting your intelligence by expecting you to hire him on the basis of what he did...
Legalize Insider Trading
Martha Stewart’s case, despite public perception to the contrary, turns not on insider trading, but on obstruction of justice, lying to investigators. Dean emeritus Henry Manne of the George Mason University School of Law, author of Insider Trading and the Stock...
Regulate Insider Trading
[The views in this article do not necessarily represent those of CM or its editors, but we provide this article as another viewpoint on Insider Trading.] The Washington Post recently reported on the considerable attention the SEC and Justice Department are devoting to...
RatherGate is a “Sign” of the Times
CBS, in rushing to air the now discredited anti-Bush National Guard documents, issued an embarrassing apology. CBS’s Dan Rather, after days of stonewalling and insisting on the accuracy of the “60 Minutes II” piece, now says: ” . . . I no...
Periferiiny Kapitalizm
You might not know it, but economic freedom is to blame for Russia’s recent turn toward authoritarianism, at least according to Lilia Shevtsova, cochair of the Russian Domestic Politics and Political Institutions Project at the Carnegie Endowment Moscow Center....
Bill Clinton and Socialized Medicine
The choice facing Americans is stark: the rights-respecting free market of capitalism, where goods and services are produced in abundance, including health care–or the chronic disasters of socialism, where thousands die because of continuous shortages.
Productive Inequality: Is it Fair?
Shaquille O’Neal ($32 million), Tiger Woods ($80 million), Oprah Winfrey ($210 million), Barry Bonds ($23 million), Mel Gibson ($210 million) and Lance Armstrong ($19 million) are at or near the top of their professions, and their annual earnings show it. But is...
Health Care in John Kerry’s World
Americans of all political parties need to give close attention to health care issues in this election year. Regardless of how they intend to vote, they need to understand that health care is the primary cause of increased government spending. It confronts Americans...
Beating George Bush, Revisited
In an article was posted on Capitalism Magazine on November 15, 2003, I advised Democrats, and their nominee (not known at that time), on how to win the election. Below I have excerpted the relevant part of that essay on the particular weaknesses of George W. Bush,...
Michelle Malkin’s “In Defense of Internment”
Back in 1939, when Senator Daniel Inouye was a teenager, he attended a Japanese language school in Hawaii. He was appalled to discover that it was also a center for political propaganda, urging young Japanese Americans like himself to remember that they were Japanese...
Thanks For Terminating My Rights, Mr. Schwarzenegger!
Dear Governor Schwarzenegger: Thank you so much! At first, I was worried when the 1994 federal assault weapons ban expired on September 13th. I know that the ban did absolutely nothing to decrease violent crime in the United States, but I sure felt safer when the nice...
A Tale of Two 9/11s
On September 11, 1814, Thomas MacDonough looked out across Lake Champlaign to see the fruits of his work over the summer. Upon the lake were near twenty ships, ranging in size from small gun boat, no more than a large row boat with a small cannon inside, to small...
Art Finally Comes to George Mason University
Controversial art historian Lee Sandstead will speak this Monday evening at the Johnson Center on something this campus hasn’t seen or heard about in decades–art. What? How can I say this? Isn’t there art everywhere at Mason? Well, yes, there is a...
Rather Courageous in the Face of Reality
CBS “journalist”/anchorman Dan Rather is an amusing figure to watch fall apart. He seems to believe, or else he is a pathological liar, that what he does at CBS is objective and reality based journalism about relevant issues of the day. Typifying this is...
Rather Not
CBS newscaster Dan Rather apparently thinks that the best defense is a good offense. After an ever-growing number of document experts have turned up an ever-growing number of discrepancies to indicate that the document he relied on to smear President Bush’s...
Wasting a Good Solution
Our country has a problem. And we have a solution. But politics is threatening to interfere. The problem: Tens of thousands of tons of dangerous nuclear waste are stored at more than 125 sites around the nation. The solution: Bury the waste at Yucca Mountain in...
Choosing a College
When a student at New York University committed suicide recently, it was the 6th suicide at that same institution this year. The suicide of someone in the prime of life, and getting an education that promises a bright future, should be much rarer than it is. But NYU...
RatherGate
Dan Rather, in a breathless “60 Minutes” piece, said he obtained documents showing that then-lieutenant George W. Bush didn’t report for a physical, and his commanding officer accused him of failing to meet National Guard standards. Rather also...
The Threat of GMU’s Faith-Based Crusaders
There is a lot of faith on campus this semester. On the first day of classes, a gauntlet of recruiters for a Christian missionary group passed out flyers to students stating that while we may aim to improve our lives through education and hard work, such efforts are...
Dangers of No Tax Liability
In last week’s column, I reported on the Washington, D.C.-based Tax Foundation’s study that estimated that 44 percent of income earners will legally have no 2004 federal income tax liability. The study concluded, “When all of the dependents of these...
The Power Struggle in China: Military Strongman Jiang Zemin vs. President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao
The power struggle in Beijing between China’s military strongman, Jiang Zemin, and the country’s two reformist government leaders, President Hu Jintao and Premier Wen Jiabao, is of momentous importance to the United States and East Asia. As the Chinese...
“Price Gouging” in Florida
In the wake of the hurricanes in Florida , the state’s attorney general has received thousands of complaints of “price gouging” by stores, hotels, and others charging far higher prices than usual during this emergency. “Price gouging” is...
Questioning George W. Bush’s Military Service
Imagine for a moment Donald Trump in front of a corporate board of directors as candidate for the job of CEO. During the course of the interview a director asks Trump about an entry level job as clerk he held thirty plus years ago. The director points out that...
America the Vulnerable: How Our Government Is Failing to Protect Us from Terrorism
He’s filled with “a sense of dread that we continue to live on borrowed time,” is “frustrated by the sense of denial that pervades so many corners of the federal government,” and sees “a dangerous proclivity among U.S. officials to...
Jobs Hysteria, Part 2
Our current unemployment rate — 5.4 percent — is one of the lowest in the world and one of the lowest in our own history. Why then the hysteria about jobs? Because this is an election year and Senator Kerry is desperate for some issue that will rescue his...
What’s At Stake in the War Against Terrorism
Q: You say that if–when this country is attacked again–John Kerry would probably call the U.N. and “scream for help”. But Kerry told the people of the U.S. that if it was attacked again he would respond or react. So why do you say that he would...
Jobs Hysteria, Part 1
Jobs have become a big issue in this election year — which means that it is optimistic to expect a rational discussion. Nothing is discussed more irrationally than “outsourcing.” It is obviously completely misleading to discuss how many jobs American...
Kerry Way Ahead in New Poll…
At last, some good news for Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry! A new poll, using a huge sample of 34,330 people, shows Kerry is favored by 26 percentage points over the incumbent president, George W. Bush. The survey, which has Kerry leading, 46 percent to...
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