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

How To Make Medical Care Affordable

Rather than create more government subsidies, policymakers should eliminate supply-side regulations that reduce price competition and affordability.

The Moose is On Fire

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I can't change the TV channels without seeing the ubiquitous mug of former Montgomery County, Md., police chief-turned-author Charles A. Moose. First, it was "Dateline NBC" with Stone Phillips. The following morning, he chatted up the "Today" show's Matt Lauer. Now,...

The Autism ‘Spectrum’

The Autism ‘Spectrum’

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When Billy's mother sees her 12-year-old son's popularity with team mates on his baseball team, she thinks back to predictions made when he was a pre-schooler that he would have so much trouble making friends that, among other things, he would probably never be able...

Click It or Ticket

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Imagine you're having a backyard barbeque. A cop walks in and announces, "This is a random health and safety check to see whether you've removed the skin from the chicken before you served it." Though delicious in taste, we all know that chicken skin contains...

Tough Issues Challenging Stock Investors

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I get lots of terrific letters from readers (both roses and thorns, I assure you). But one I got last week takes the prize. It's a list of penetrating questions about all of the toughest issues challenging stock investors. The minute I saw it I knew what today's...

P.C. vs. the Indian Princesses

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Political correctness is breaking the hearts of thousands of little girls -- and their daddies are having a hard time explaining why multicultural hypersensitivity is more important than their daughters' innocent fun. Beginning this month, the YMCA's Indian Princesses...

Quotas,Tenure, and Diversity of Opinion in Academia

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This is the time of year when millions of parents send their children off to universities. Unfortunately, one price of getting one's children into a top school these days is that they may be subjected to four years of liberal propaganda. Those in academia like to call...

A Contract with Black America?

A Contract with Black America?

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A caller on the Rush Limbaugh show recently had an inspired suggestion for Republicans: Since the "Contract with America" was such a political success back in 1994, why not a Contract with Black America during next year's election campaign? The original Contract with...

September 11th

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On this day, the best way to honor the dead is to reassert -- and expand -- the values that made their lives in this country (and our own) possible. This means rebuilding the World Trade Center -- with private dollars and within the capitalist framework. It means...

Spitting on Their Graves

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Across the nation, public officials will strike somber poses and shed television-friendly tears and bow their blow-dried heads in memory of the victims of the September 11 terrorist attacks. They'll hold hands, light candles, and pass around a plateful of platitudes:...

Paul Krugman Unraveled

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Paul Krugman's book, The Great Unraveling, hits bookstores today. Are you surprised that Krugman's publisher, W.W. Norton, has repeatedly refused my requests for a review copy of the book? Despite this inexplicable omission, America's most dangerous liberal pundit is...

Manufacturing Will Be Booming

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With Congress having returned from its August recess last week, the rhetoric on employment has heated up. In particular, we are hearing more and more about the loss of manufacturing jobs. A Federal Reserve Bank of New York study warns that many have disappeared...

George W. Bush: Caving in to Big Spenders

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The Republican Party's conservative base is becoming increasingly restless with George W. Bush's unwillingness to restrain the growth of federal spending in any way. Last week brought another shot across his bow, when the Manchester Union Leader, one of America's most...

Mutually Assured Destruction

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For all the outrage and indignation voiced by the media and our public servants, the market didn't seem terribly concerned by last week's scandalous revelation that a hedge-fund manager had illegally profited at the expense of mutual-fund shareholders. That's powerful...

America’s Timid War on Terrorism

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Although American forces impressively deposed the tyrannical regime of Saddam Hussein, the nearly two-year-long War on Terrorism is, in fact, going badly.The tragedy is that we lack not weapons, nor military prowess, nor bravery; our military is the most powerful in...

Why We’re Losing the War on Terrorism

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Let the remembrances begin; in the time since the worst attack in American history, it is proper to remember what happened, to celebrate heroic acts and to mourn the staggering loss of life. There is sadness, yes, but the root of the sadness must be examined, too:...

Experts Without Expertise: Liberation’s Children

Experts Without Expertise: Liberation’s Children

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We may become the first society destroyed by its own experts -- especially experts in fields where there is no expertise that can be verified by facts. Over the past several decades, no one has been victimized more by so-called experts than parents and children. And...

The Cornerstone of America’s Freedom

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This month, America will celebrate the 216th anniversary of its famed Constitution. That is long enough ago that most of us take for granted the rights protected by this governing document. But if given a chance to reflect, what constitutionally protected rights do...

The “New New” Madonna for Mother of the Year?

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The open-mouthed kisses between aging pop star Madonna and 15th-minute celebrity clingers Britney Spears and Christina Aguilera, broadcast on MTV last week, received widespread media attention. The Sapphic spectacle was rightly condemned as vulgar, cynical, and...

Bill Janklow Should Step Down From Office

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It's all a big joke to Rep. Bill Janklow, the Republican congressman from South Dakota with a lead foot, a hollow heart, and an ego the size of his Cadillac death-mobile. Conservatives with a conscience should be appalled that the powerful GOP representative, charged...

Foreign Trade Angst: Facts and Fictions

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I've written a nationally syndicated column for nearly 25 years. Columns critical of Social Security and handouts to farmers used to bring the angry self-serving mail. Now it's international trade. Let me address some of the issues raised. First, it's misleading to...

Compassion for Criminals, But Not Their Victims

Compassion for Criminals, But Not Their Victims

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For more than two centuries, the political left has crusaded against the punishment of criminals. Anyone familiar with history can find 18th century writers saying the same things that today's critics, politicians, judges and the ACLU are saying about how terrible it...

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