One of the reasons the electorate and the country are so divided is that there is no widespread adherence to any particular set of political convictions. Most Americans do not want to adopt Communism, Nazism, fascism or Islamofascism as a set of convictions, for...
POLITICS
The Revolution will be Philosophic
According to Edison/Mitofsky Research's exit polls from last Tuesday's election, the leading issue on the mind of Americans was not the war on terrorism, the war in Iraq or the state of the economy. Instead, the leading issue was "moral values," a seemingly odd choice...
90 Minutes of “President” John Kerry: A Kerry Presidency Would Have Been Bad for the U.S. Economy
On November 2, 2004 while Americans voted, flawed exit polls (indicating among other things that Kerry would carry Florida, the popular vote, and the Presidency) prompted the market to vote on a perceived Kerry Administration. As we have argued before, the prospect of...
Celebrate Divisiveness
In his phone call conceding the election to President Bush, John Kerry is reported as having said we need to "do something" about all the divisiveness in the country. This is wrong on two counts.First, division on matters of principle is a good thing. The primary...
Unnecessary Circumcision
In recent years, the debate on circumcision has been conducted on a relatively low plane, with proponents arguing that circumcision may prevent some rare conditions. Opponents of circumcision argue that it simply has no medical benefits, and is a violation of a man's...
The Oldest Fraud
Election frauds are nothing new and neither are political frauds in general. The oldest fraud is the belief that the political left is the party of the poor and the downtrodden. The election results in California are only the latest evidence to give the lie to that...
U.S. Policy Towards Iran: 25 Years Of Denial
THIS WEEK MARKS 25 YEARS of America's appeasement toward Iran, which began in earnest on November 4, 1979, the day Iran declared war on America. Ayatollah Khomeini's thugs stormed the U.S. embassy in Teheran, Iran, and held 52 Americans as prisoners for 444 days....
Four More Years
George W. Bush won. Sen. John Kerry gave a concession speech, but not until 2 p.m. ET Wednesday did he say, "It is now clear that even when all the provisional ballots are counted -- which they will be -- there won't be enough outstanding votes for us to able to win...
A Narrow Escape
Although more people voted for President Bush than for any other President in American history, it was still a narrow victory -- and a narrow escape for this great nation. Can you imagine what it would be like to have a Massachusetts liberal filling the federal courts...
Is Politics The Way?
Black politicians and the civil rights establishment take it as an act of faith that progress for black people requires racial politics and government programs. How about examining this vision with a few simple, common-sense questions? Whether you're black, white or...
United Nations Relief and Works Agency: Beyond the Headlines
The headlines are shocking enough: "Child Shot in UNRWA School Dies." "Israeli Gunfire Hits 11-Year-Old Girl …in an UNRWA School." So, too, are the accompanying statistics: "On June 1, two 10-year-old boys in UNRWA's Al-Umariye Elementary Boys' School in Rafah were...
John Kerry in Vietnam: A Charlatan?
Men who have been in combat together often form a bond that lasts long after the war is over. It is hard to think of a single example of men who faced enemy fire side by side and who later publicly denounced each other. The glaring exceptions are the men who served...
The Mythical Capitalist Threat: Billionaire George Soros vs. Capitalism
The admirers of billionaire George Soros’s essay have no more knowledge concerning the actual nature of laissez-faire capitalism than George Soros does.
Anti-Kerryites Against Bush
I've finally decided to support John Kerry in this election. (And, in true Kerry fashion, I'm voting against him, but more on that later.) While I find Kerry repugnant, I believe George Bush threatens America's freedom more. That's why I'm an "anti-Kerryite against...
Drafts–Real and Imagined
If you are John Kerry, how do you strike fear in the hearts of twenty-somethings--a demographic that typically leans left but is notoriously unlikely to show up at the polls on Election Day? One way is to hint that your opponent plans to draft them into the military....
Hail to the Chief, No Matter Who He Is
"You are a flaming Bush-loving Republican idiot." So began an e-mail I received this morning about last Friday's column. There have been dozens like it in recent weeks because I've dared to be bullish on growth and tech, and because I've dared to argue that the stock...
9/10 vs. 9/12 on 11/2
"I can wage a better war on terror than George Bush has." So speaks Senator Kerry in the U.S. presidential campaign's final days, again reminding voters that the key issue in this race remains as it was a year earlier - deciding which candidate will better protect...
Endorsements for President Bush
President Bush received a heck of an endorsement this week: from Hasan Rowhani, head of Iran's Security Council. This should give pause to those who think that Mr. Bush is viewed everywhere as an enemy by America's enemies, and Senator Kerry as their friend. In fact,...
In the Mold of Jimmy Carter: The Kerry Tax Plan
The concept of supply and demand is a powerful mechanism to frame decisions and likely consequences. For example, suppose the price for red apples is $1.00 per pound today, but increases to $2.00 per pound tomorrow. We are happy to go out on a limb and predict that...
The Imperfect President And His Dangerous Opponent
Q: I have read your article entitled "Election 2004: Looking Ahead While Living Today" and while I am leaning towards voting for Bush for the very same reasons you list, I was wondering how you respond to the following quote by Ayn Rand: "A half-battle is worse than...
Bush the Radical; Kerry the Reactionary
The Middle East has so defined the presidency of George W. Bush that historians will, I expect, judge him primarily according to his actions there. And so, too, will American voters in just more than a week, when they go to the polls. It has not been fully appreciated...
Citizen Change: Voting Zombies
As in years past, the weeks and months leading up to the 2004 presidential election have been laced with stern reminders about the importance of voting. But while every citizen has a right to vote on election day, none has an obligation. In fact, morally, many have an...
Shall We Dance: An Invitation to the Dance
Though no one will mistake Shall We Dance for a classic Fred Astaire musical, director Peter Chelsom's romantic dance comedy makes you want to grab a dish and dance 'til dawn. The jovial remake, based on director Masayuki Suo's Japanese movie of the same name and...
Media Disgrace: Missing Weapons of Almost Mass Destruction
As if to prove that the Dan Rather forged document scandal was not just an isolated incident, CBS News was ready to run another bogus story against President Bush on "60 Minutes" -- right before the election -- until an old NBC report surfaced, showing that the great...
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