Contrary to the claim by the 9/11 commission chairman, the failure to prevent 9/11 was not "a failure of imagination." It was a failure of cognition. For decades prior to 9/11, terrorist attacks against Americans were perpetrated without any noticeable response from...
POLITICS
The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men. – AYN RAND
34 Months vs. 444 Days: There Jimmy Carter Goes Again, Blaming America for His Failures
If one were forced to choose low point of Jimmy Carter's presidency, it might be his July 15, 1979, "national malaise" speech. The country was suffering under inflation, recession, and an "energy crisis"--and we were about to undergo the national humiliation of the...
To Outsource or to Stagnate?
A free society requires and rewards individuals who are active-minded, forward-looking, keen to better themselves. A society moving towards state control of the economy requires and rewards individuals who want tranquility, passivity, lethargy. In the debate about the...
The “Anti-War” Protestors are Too Conservative
A group of pro Iraq-war/pro-Bush demonstrators is forming to counter the anti-war demonstrations going on in the country, particularly on college campuses. The name of the new group is Protest Warrior. According to news reports, they are greeted with taunts of "shame"...
Palestinian Descent into Chaos
"There is a crisis. There is a state of chaos." That's what Ahmed Qureia said after announcing his resignation from what some call the Palestinian Authority's prime ministry. "We have an absolute state of chaos," echoes the mayor of Jenin, a West Bank town. That...
Legalized Extortion and Discrimination Lawsuits
The sex discrimination lawsuit against Wal-Mart raises questions with implications that reach far beyond this one retail giant. Too many people in the media, in academia, and even in courts of law, act as if numbers plus a preconception equals proof. The preconception...
Free Health Care in Canada
Let's start out by not quibbling with America's socialists' false claim that health-care service is a human right that people should have regardless of whether they can pay for it or not and that it should be free. Before we buy into this socialist agenda, we might...
The Grand Fallacy: Equating Male-Female Differences in Salary with Discrimination
A record-breaking new class-action lawsuit against Wal-Mart claims that this retail chain discriminates against women, for which of course vast millions of dollars are being demanded. The New York Times aptly summarized the case -- "about 65 percent of the company's...
Intel’s Letdown
Despite the sensationalism surrounding Martha Stewart's sentencing on Friday, the disappointing earnings report out of Intel late Tuesday was the true big market event of the week. Shares of the chip maker lost more than 10% in Wednesday trading as investors...
The Bigger Picture
I'm tired of hearing all the bad news about Iraq. It's time to recognize the good news too. This requires viewing the bigger picture, not just viewing the politicized movie of a fat, unshaven no-talent or the biased musings of a major media anchor. Our military showed...
The Marriage Affirmation Act: The Integration of Church and State
A new law in the State of Virginia illustrates the growing Constitutional crisis in our country, a crisis brought about by the failure of both liberals and conservatives to grasp the concept of individual rights. Virginia has passed into law something called the...
Terrorism Works Against “The Weak Man” of Asia
Once dubbed the "sick man of Asia" for its anemic showing during the 1980s Asian economic boom, the Philippines has now earned the title "weak man of Asia" -- by caving in to terrorist demands in exchange for the release of a Filipino truck driver in Iraq. By being...
We Don’t Attack Opponents in Personal Ways
"We're running a very positive and affirmative campaign," said Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. Indeed, Sen. Kerry, D-Mass., renounces nastiness: "We have not stood up," he said, "and attacked our opponents in personal ways." Really? Let's go to the...
Fahrenheit 9/11: Propaganda for the Already Converted Fails as a Documentary
Fahrenheit 9/11 is propaganda for the converted.
The COS Again
Bill Cosby rattled the cages again a fortnight ago in his address before Jesse Jackson's 33rd Annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago. Let's look at some of his remarks. Cosby told the audience that being poor had a different meaning to older generations...
Digital Disgust: In Praise of Simplicity
One of the maddening things about some computer programs and computerized products is their making you fight your way through a maze of complications to do simple things. Whether you want to play chess, take a picture, or do some other obvious and straightforward...
“Friends” of Blacks
Reactions to Bill Cosby's recent criticisms of some counterproductive ghetto behavior patterns have ranged from applause from some in the black audience that heard him to a cheap attack from white liberal Barbara Ehrenreich in the New York Times. "Billionaire bashes...
Life of the Limousine Liberals: What is John Kerry’s Wife (Teresa Heinz Kerry) Hiding?
If John Kerry wins the presidency, his household will be the richest ever to occupy the White House. Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, controls a vast fortune estimated by a Los Angeles Times study to be as great as $900 million to $3.2 billion. Through a series of...
The “Inspirational” Dictator and the New York Yankee
Jose Contreras. Recognize the name? If the answer is no, then I'll tell you. He is a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees who is currently working with a 5-3 record. But the purpose of this article is not to discuss his pitching, but to shed some light on his...
Weapons of Crass Obstruction
This may go down in history as the year when an attempt to win an election, at all costs, led to longer run disasters that make any election pale into insignificance. The biggest and loudest political rhetoric of this year is that President Bush "lied" about weapons...
The Kerry-Edwards Ticket: The Limousine Liberal and the Litigious Lawyer Unite
Now that Senator John Kerry has named Senator John Edwards as his vice-presidential running mate, we need to examine the reality behind the images that both men have projected. Senator Kerry has been busy posing for the media shooting guns, playing hockey, declaring...
Bush to United: Fly Smarter
"Let me tell you a secret," said former Vice President Al Gore recently, President Bush is a "moral coward." Moral coward? Why the latest attack? Well, Gore accused the president of an unwillingness "to stand up and say 'no.' . . . He will not choose the public...
“The International Community”
To those who do not want to face up to hard and brutal choices in a nuclear age, the magic formula is to turn to something called "the international community" -- or, more concretely, the United Nations or "our European allies." As with so many rhetorical solutions to...
Silent Spring: RIP 2004
Ever since Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring," environmental extremists have sought to ban all DDT use. Using phony studies from the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council, the environmental activist-controlled Environmental...
Saddam’s Admirers
It's something beyond sickening to hear the news media fawn, almost in admiration, at how Saddam Hussein "still has spirit" and "found his way" under difficult circumstances in court today. Dan Rather's gentle tone is particularly horrifying Earth to media: The man is...
A Foreign Policy Bible for America: A Review of Peter Schwartz’s “The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America”
I have just finished reading, with great pleasure, Peter Schwartz's new booklet, The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America (published by ARI Press). In just 60 clear, hard-hitting pages, Mr. Schwartz lays out the essentials of a proper foreign...
Country Joe and the Woodstock Generation
I'm a baby boomer and that's a curse. You see I'm stuck with the idiots from the sixties till my dying day as they whine and moan about injustice and mentally dwell forever in the days of tie-die shirts, incense, and free love. The news media, now controlled by baby...
The Declaration of Independence
Though the Declaration of Independence was assigned to a committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert B. Livingston; the document is primarily Jefferson's work, aside from a few editorial exceptions--in particular...
Ever Wonder Why People Who Hate America Live in America?
Ever wonder why people who hate America live in America? At a soccer match between Mexico and the United States a few years ago, the stands were full of Mexican flags. The fans booed when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played and those few fans who raised American...
Ever Wonder Why Some People Hate America?
Ever wonder why some people hate America so? This is not a new phenomenon nor one confined to foreigners. More than 20 years ago, Eric Hoffer said: "Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America." Note that...
Rex Reed’s Review of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11”
Michael Moore's "documentary" Fahrenheit 9/11, having won the French Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the month, opened on June 25th in some 800 American theaters. In its first weekend, it led the box office with a $21.8 million gross, according to ABC...
Ever Wonder Why?
When you have seen scenes of poverty and squalor in many Third World countries, either in person or in pictures, have you ever wondered why we in America have been spared such a fate? When you have learned of the bitter oppressions that so many people have suffered...
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