Bill Cosby has provided a lot of laughs for millions of Americans over the years but black “leaders” were not laughing after he lashed out at those black parents who buy their children expensive sneakers instead of something educational. He also denounced...
Nearly lost in the debate over job creation has been the surge of productivity that has taken place over the last two years. Americans workers are producing more goods per hour of work and boosting their own incomes in the process. Increased productivity also means...
BRUSSELS – “If Mr. Glassman hates Europe so much,” said the head of the Belgian farmers’ union, “then why doesn’t he leave?” Touchy! Actually, I love Europe – the vistas, the culture, the food, the history, even the...
Little Angelo finally got justice, though he died too young to even know what justice meant. Angelo Marinda lived only eight months and it took more than twice that long to convict his father of his murder. Tragically, the policies and the mindset among the...
After the brutal beheading of Nicholas Berg, his father, Michael, promptly blamed the Bush administration for his son’s death. “Nicholas Berg died for the sins of George Bush and (Defense Secretary) Donald Rumsfeld,” said Michael Berg. “The al...
Several weeks ago, my column on teacher ineptitude was about the sorry state of teacher quality and concluded that while teacher ineptitude is neither flattering nor comfortable to confront, confront it we must if we’re to do anything about our sorry state of...
Two questions would destroy at least half the agenda of the political left: “Compared to what?” and “At what cost?” A third question would wipe out most of the rest of the left’s agenda and demolish the vision behind that agenda:...
While politicians were expressing their shock to the media over the mistreatment of Iraqi prisoners, the Iraqi terrorists gave us a bitter lesson in what real shock is all about, with the videotaped beheading of an American civilian who was in Iraq to try to help...
As you may have heard, the Boston Globe published, as real, fake pictures purporting to show American soldiers in Iraq gang-raping Iraqi women. The pictures were actually from a porn website and were staged (not to make any political point, needless to add). The...
When former president Ronald Reagan declined to enter America into the United Nations’ Law of the Sea Treaty (LOST), it seemed the debate over regulating the world’s oceans at the global level had ended, at least for the duration of his leadership. Under...
Media Matters for America is a new website (mediamatters.org) “dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation.” It’s been developed with the zillions of tax-deductible dollars that George Soros and...
Media Matters for America is a new website (mediamatters.org) “dedicated to comprehensively monitoring, analyzing, and correcting conservative misinformation.” It’s been developed with the zillions of tax-deductible dollars that George Soros and...
It’s been a miserable month in Iraq, but a wonderful month for the American economy. “The April employment report confirms unambiguously that the labor market is back,” said Economy.com, the respected website, on Thursday. Some 288,000 net new jobs...
Q: Dr. Hurd, on your article on gay associations, what reasons would you have if a person wanted to have an “association” with a parent, a sibling, a cousin or a minor? Where would you draw the line and what reasoning would you use to make this conclusion...
Five or six years ago, a friend I have known since high school — let’s call him R. — rhapsodized about a money manager who lived in, of all places, Santa Fe, N.M. “Find Garrett Thornburg,” said R. “This guy has the best financial...
Q: I need the spirit of optimism in daily news analysis. Is there something wrong with me that I need to hear good things from other people? A: Not at all. A news commentary should tell you that there’s hope, if there is hope. At the same time, a news commentary...
Ladies and gentlemen, it is understandable to want to help out poor families, and toward that end it has been suggested that Congress increase the minimum wage, from the current $5.15 an hour to $6.65 an hour. Well, I have good news and bad news for you. The bad news...
Although Brown v. Board of Education dealt with race and with schools, its judicial philosophy spread rapidly to issues having nothing to do with race or schools. In the half century since Brown, judges at all levels have become unelected legislators imposing the...
According to AOL News, a video posted Tuesday on an Islamic militant Web site showed the beheading of an American civilian in Iraq, and said the execution was carried out by an al-Qaida affiliated group to avenge the abuse of Iraqi prisoners by American soldiers. To...
The landmark case of Brown v. Board of Education was immediately about schools, even though it quickly became a precedent for outlawing racial segregation in other government-controlled institutions and programs. What was the basis for that landmark decision and what...
The slaughtering of Nick Berg is one small step for terrorists and a major leap for the West’s encounter with Jihadism. The videotape, posted on the Ansar website, is one of many horrifying acts perpetrated by the followers of Osama bin Laden. It has also become...
Scandal! Shocking! Shame! A public relations setback for the war! The world no longer trusts America with her loss of the moral high ground! Yes, the pictures at the Abu Ghraib prison in Baghdad show coalition American soldiers taunting, humiliating and apparently...
May 17, 1954 — half a century ago — saw one of the most momentous decisions in the history of the Supreme Court of the United States. Some observers who were there said that one of the black-robed Justices sat on the great bench with tears in his eyes. The...
The American Civil War was not about conditions in Andersonville prison and the war in Iraq is not about conditions in Abu Ghraib prison. Terrible things happened in both military prisons but that was a small part of both these wars. When our troops are putting their...
During the recent debate on legislation to reauthorize the federal highway system, many supporters of the program claimed that it would create 2 million jobs. But as decades of research demonstrate, such claims are questionable given the mixed findings of the many...
The roar of good economic news is getting louder. Our economy expanded 4.2 percent in the first quarter of the year. That follows 4.1 percent growth in the fourth quarter, and 8.2 percent growth in the quarter before that. Over the last three months alone, our economy...
Random thoughts on the passing scene: Australian economist Wolfgang Kasper has figured out the day on which the average citizen has earned money enough to pay his taxes, so that he can then begin earning money for himself instead of for the government. For Singapore,...
Speech by Donald L. Luskin to the Corporate Finance Council of San Diego. Tonight I’m going to be talking about the controversy over “offshore outsourcing” in the context of a book I’m writing. My book is about the intersection of the science...
Speech by Donald L. Luskin to the Corporate Finance Council of San Diego. Tonight I’m going to be talking about the controversy over “offshore outsourcing” in the context of a book I’m writing. My book is about the intersection of the science...
The re-election of Sudan to the U.N. Human Rights Commission–chaired by terrorist-sponsoring Libya in 2003–demonstrates once again the total moral bankruptcy of the United Nations. The list of atrocities and violations of human rights in Sudan is endless....
Those who imagine that collective decision-making by government officials is better than individual decision-making in a market economy should have been present at a recent meeting of the Planning Commission for the city of San Mateo, California. A man who has been...
“Week after week after week after week,” said Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., about President Bush’s rationale for going to war with Iraq , “we were told lie after lie after lie after lie.” Were we? Jordan recently seized 20 tons of chemicals...
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