Every summer, the stories come. And the tiny bodies pile up. "Toddler trapped in hot van dies." "Kids die from heat in SUV." "Baby boy dies in hot van." Some of the tragedies involve outright parental neglect -- a father who recklessly leaves an infant in the driveway...
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
U.S. to Israel: Do As We Say
In an agreement brokered last month by U.S. National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice, Palestinian terrorist groups agreed to a temporary cease-fire on condition that Israel ceases its practice of "targeted killings" (executing would-be terrorists before they have a...
The IRS 400
On June 26, readers of The New York Times saw this headline at the top of page one: "Very Richest's Share of Income Grew Even Bigger, Data Show." One would have thought that important news was being broken. But in fact, the reporter, Pulitzer Prize winner David Cay...
Summer Reading, Part 1
From time to time, parents write to ask how they can counter all the steady diet of slanted political correctness their children are getting in the schools and colleges. The summer vacation is probably as good a time as any to get them something to read to let them...
A Cry from Zimbabwe
Since the 1980s thousands of individuals have been displaced from their homes, beaten, tortured, raped or murdered.
“Saving” Bay Meadows
In typical California style, T-shirts have begun to appear with the slogan, "Save Bay Meadows." What are Bay Meadows? A lovely pristine natural vista? Not really. Bay Meadows is an old race track that has seen better days, both physically and financially, and is...
European Constitution vs.British Sovereignty
British Prime Minister Tony Blair has survived with a wrist slap the first parliamentary committee's report on the false claims he made about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction. But other, more determined, inquiries are underway, and a new imbroglio is brewing over...
America’s Spy Software Scandal, Courtesy of the U.S. Department of Justice
Did Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden have access to a U.S. computer tracking program that enabled them to monitor our intelligence-gathering efforts and financial transactions? If so, who is responsible for allowing the program to fall into their hands? And who else...
Bush’s Regulatory Crackdown on Business Has Harmed the Economy
In a major speech on July 9, 2002, in the wake of the Enron and WorldCom scandals, President Bush announced a series of regulatory initiatives to "expose and root out corruption" in American business. Stressing that "the vast majority of businessmen and women are...
Media Ignorance
People in the major news media have come in for considerable and sometimes bitter criticism. They've been charged with anti-Americanism, leftism, bias and just plain lying, as in the cases of former New York Times reporter Jayson Blair, The Associated Press'...
Raghuram G. Rajan: Saving Capitalism from the Capitalists
The International Monetary Fund made an important appointment last week, naming Raghuram G. Rajan of the University of Chicago as its new chief economist. In this position, he will oversee all of the IMF's economic research and have a great deal to say about its...
Blacks Remain Oppressed, But Not By White Americans
Black leaders have done in 40 years what white people could not do in 400; they’ve made us accept inferior status.
The Case for Bearishness
Even my old friends have turned against me! As the angry emails continue to pour in from bearish readers who are furious at me for my last couple of bullish columns, my old friend Fred Goodman -- the master technical analyst -- has issued a major sell signal. I don't...
Dealing with School Violence
Marc Epstein teaches history at Jamaica High School in Queens, N.Y. He wrote the summer 2003 issue of Education Next's feature story, titled "Security Detail." If an American, who passed away as late as 1960, were somehow resurrected, he'd probably think Epstein...
A Patriot for the Defense of America
Not the ground soldier, stealth bomber nor nuclear bomb is America's most crucial weapon in its war on terrorists. To Jason Crawford, president of Patriots for the Defense of America, that weapon is moral clarity, without which our leaders would be unwilling to fire a...
Social Engineering, Educational Pluralism, and Holistic Racism
They say we wouldn't eat sausages if we ever visited a meat packing plant. For many of us, that's probably true of hamburgers too. It's one thing on a nice day to run into the supermarket and pick up some nice fresh-looking quarter-pounders for the grill and yet a...
Supreme Court Defends Racism in America's Universities
Last week's Supreme Court rulings in the University of Michigan cases set a modern record for shamelessess. State universities are not barred by the Constitution from engaging in racial discrimination, five justices decided. They are only prohibited from doing so...
Iran is the Root of Islamic Terrorism
Following an overwhelming military victory in Iraq, the Bush administration has renewed its pursuit of creating a Palestinian terrorist state, instead of focusing on the premier sponsor of anti-American terrorism: Iran. While the administration once again entangles...
Penny-Wise/Pound-Foolish: Bush Sanctions Democrat Spending Principles
In a recent column, I suggested that George W. Bush would likely win an overwhelming victory next year, given the weakness of the Democratic field. National Review's Ramesh Ponnuru agrees, but he makes the important point that this prospect is not necessarily good for...
Can We Afford Tax Cuts?
When President Bush first announced his plan last January to cut taxes on dividends, capital gains and personal income I sang his praises (first here, here and also here and here). Now Bush's plan has been law for over two months. While the critics have had no...
What Makes an American?
Thousands of people from around the world will raise their right hands, swear allegiance to the United States, and become proud American citizens this weekend. They will become Americans because they choose to do so, they love what we stand for, and they are willing...
Death to Theocracy: America Must Act Now to Bring Down Iran’s Regime
The Bush administration has been right in recent weeks to focus attention on Iran--but not because of the threat that Iran might build nuclear weapons. Iran is the source of a much more powerful weapon of mass destruction that has already been unleashed against the...
Grateful for the Patriot Act
To civil-liberties alarmists, Viet Dinh is a traitor. To me, he is an American hero. Dinh, 35, is widely known -- and reviled -- as the primary architect of the Patriot Act. Until May, he was an assistant attorney general for the Office of Legal Policy in John...
Declaring Our Independence. Again!
I have a friend who says America needs a new Declaration of Independence. Specifically, he says the United States needs to declare its independence from the United Nations. There is little the US gains from being tied to the dictates of the UN and much to lose as it...
No Media Bias?
Denials of media bias seem to have become more frequent or more vehement lately. Some in the media try to dismiss the accusation as old stuff. But the only real question is whether it is true, because the truth doesn't wear out with the passage of time. Media bias...
Destorying Black Youth
In last week's U.S. Supreme Court's affirmative action decision, Justice Clarence Thomas' dissent included a quotation from an 1865 speech by abolitionist Frederick Douglass. "What I ask for the Negro," Douglass said, "is not benevolence, not pity, not sympathy, but...
Sabine Herold: Saving France From Itself
In the 15th century, a young woman named Joan rallied the people of France to revolt against their English oppressors. Today, another young woman, named Sabine Herold, is trying to do the same thing. Only she is not trying to save France from foreign invaders but from...
The Fourth of July
Why do we celebrate the Fourth of July? After all, we are taught from kindergarten to the universities that all cultures are entitled to equal respect. Why then celebrate the creation of a nation that is no better than any other nation? Indeed, if you heard only the...
In Praise of Another Tax Cut
Early on in the 2000 presidential race, President Bush unveiled his plan for a $1.6 trillion tax cut. Back then, the justification was that the economy was in great shape, and the designated beneficiaries were, as Bush put it, "those who paid the bill," i.e., the...
Death to Dictators in Iran
"Happy colors became sinful, joy became a crime, and death was worshipped." That's how Reza Mahmoodshahi, writing last December in The Cornell Review, describes what happened in 1979 when Ayatollah Khomeini returned from exile and assumed his post as Iran's supreme...
Revisiting the Efficient Market Hypothesis
Over the past few months, the stock market has put on one of those frequent demonstrations that show exactly why smart investors buy stocks and hold on to them -- or, better yet, why they consistently buy more. The economic news has not been good, with unemployment...
Reducto Ad Totalitarianism
Imagine a society in which an unelected, few people, qualified for power only by their mastery of esoteric terminology and incantations, are able to dictate our everyday lives in the most minute detail--growing rich in the process by siphoning off unearned billions...
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