After Sept. 11, American flags were widespread, from Ground Zero to jacket lapels in Alaska. I, too, attached the Stars and Stripes to my car antenna. I’ve always been patriotic, but never a flag-waver. Now, I will forever keep a flag where I can see it daily....
POLITICS
No Hall of Fame for Pete Rose
A San Francisco sports writer has joined the chorus of those who argue that Pete Rose should be admitted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, despite being banned from baseball for violating one of its cardinal rules, against betting on ball games. The argument is: What...
New Leadership for Palestine and Iraq: A Double Standard?
In exchange for a withdrawal of US and British troops, Saddam Hussein sends word that he is prepared to share some of his power with a senior member of his Baathist inner circle. Instead of maintaining absolute control over the Iraqi state, Saddam agrees to name Tariq...
Time for the US to Get Out of the United Nations
Here’s a suggestion. Let’s take the millions in dues we pay to the United Nations and reallocate it to help pay the cost of our war to liberate the Iraqis? We pay more than a quarter of the operating budget for that Epicenter of Bloviation. I don’t...
The Killing of History: Preface
An excerpt from the second edition of The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past . History is an intellectual discipline which is more than 2,400 years old. It ranks with philosophy and mathematics as one of the most...
The UN’s Power Path: Restricting Freedom Under the Mantra of “Sustainable Development”
Today as the United Nations appears weakened by its complete failure to be a serious player in the US-Iraq war, many of our nation’s leaders dismiss concerns that the organization threatens American sovereignty. However, the major threat from the UN lies between...
Property Rights by Popular Vote
While the Buckeye case may not serve as a turning point in the battle to restore property rights, it is nonetheless an ominous indicator of just how far we have to go.
The Pro-War Left is Still the Left
FrontPage mag published leftist Nat Hentoff’s piece explaining what he did not march to protest the Iraqi war. In his article he quotes himself from a newspaper interview: “There was the disclosure . . . when the prisons were briefly opened of the gouging...
The Grand Fraud: Double-Standard Admissions
If you would like to be taller than you are, do you think that joining a basketball team would help? After all, statistics prove that members of basketball teams are taller than other people. If this seems like a strange way to reason, it is the same kind of reasoning...
What If the U.S. Had Gotten the U.N. On Our Side?
Here’s a thought experiment: Let’s say that somehow — through being more diplomatic or offering more concessions or through performing a miracle — the Bush Administration had managed to persuade the U.N. Security Council, including France and...
Stop Apologizing for Civilian Casualties
In war, a country convinced of the rightness of its course expects its forces to subordinate all considerations to the objective of military victory. Our government, however, has adopted the indecisive policy of “balancing” the goal of defeating the enemy...
If Seattle Could Edit History…
One of the things that drove me craziest when I lived in Seattle several years ago was the astounding ability of the city’s politicians to suck the plain meaning out of words-and to replace them with a rhetorical muddle as gray and hazy as the city’s...
Bombs and Tears–of Joy
When the United States first bombed Iraq last week, initiating a self-defensive campaign against Saddam Hussein, I cried a tear of joy. When the US first bombed the Taliban in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, my joy wasn’t as great. Given that...
Catch Us If You Can
It’s back to last December 31, and we’re playing a New Year’s Eve guessing game. The country is heading for recession and war — so what will the stock market do in the first quarter of the new year? If I told you that Amazon.com and Yahoo!...
The Economic Effects of President Bush’s Budget Proposal
On March 25, the Congressional Budget Office released an important study of President Bush’s budget proposal. What was novel about this study is that the CBO attempted to calculate the impact of the proposal on the economy as a whole. Normally, it assumes that...
The Grand Fraud: “Disparate Impact” Statistics, Big Business, and Affirmative Action
Someone once said of Lillian Hellman that every word she uttered was a lie, including “and” and “the.” Many defenders of affirmative action deserve a Lillian Hellman award. Not only is much of what they say contradicted by readily available...
The Sin of ‘Sin Taxes’
Like most states, Georgia is facing a severe budget crisis. Estimates place Georgia’s deficit for the next fiscal year at between $800 million and $1 billion. To help remedy the situation, Governor Sonny Perdue is trying the oldest political trick in the...
U.S.-Russian Relations Threatened By Iraq Arms Sales
The Bush Administration has accused Moscow of selling sensitive military equipment to Saddam Hussein in violation of U.N. Security Council sanctions. During a March 24th telephone conversation, President George W. Bush discussed the sales of night vision goggles,...
Will Saddam Use Chemical Weapons?
There is little debate as to whether Saddam Hussein has chemical weapons. This was underscored when coalition forces recently discovered 3,000 chemical suits in a Nasiriyah hospital. The real question is whether or not Saddam will use these weapons of horror. As...
America: Ruled by Scoundrels
The March 10 issue of Human Events carried a special report on the 10 most outrageous government programs. The Legal Services Corp. headed the list, followed closely by the McCain-Feingold Campaign Finance Reform Act and the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931. Rounding out the...
The Grand Fraud: Affirmative Action for Women
Fraud is as pervasive in arguments for affirmative action for women as in arguments for affirmative action for blacks. In fact, a whole fraudulent history has been concocted to explain the changing economic position of women over the years. In the feminist...
Against the Moral Authority of the United Nations
Thomas Friedman writes to Andrew Sullivan: Why is it that liberals, such as myself, who were ready to support the war, so desperately wanted U.N. approval for it? It was for a couple of reasons–one that is already apparent and one that will become more apparent....
War: Good for Iraq?
Every day, Americans watch their televisions in awe, as U.S. cruise missiles and precision bombs rain down on Baghdad. There is also much destruction going on elsewhere in Iraq. It may seem absurd, therefore, to suggest that the war in Iraq could somehow end up being...
The Grand Fraud: Affirmative Action for Blacks
No issue has been more saturated with dishonesty than the issue of racial quotas and preferences, which is now being examined by the Supreme Court of the United States. Many defenders of affirmative action are not even honest enough to admit that they are talking...
The Moral Gulf Between America and Saddam’s Iraq
The campaign to liberate Iraq is going well, though you might not know it from the shock and awe of the media, which apparently discovered only this week that war — even for a winning army — is hell. As is the case in nearly every war, brave soldiers have...
“I Was Wrong.”
How do you admit you were wrong? What do you do when you realize those you were defending in fact did not want your defense and wanted something completely different from you and from the world? This is my story. It will probably upset everybody – those with...
Dismantling North Korea’s Nukes
The Bush Administration is right to demand the dismantling, not just the suspension, of North Korea’s nuclear program.
Smithsonian Denies Slavery in Africa Was “Dehumanizing”
The Smithsonian’s African American history museum in Washington, D.C., states that while instances of slavery can be found throughout human history, the practice of slavery did not become “dehumanizing” until white Europeans came along and took...
Daniel Pipes Visits Hamilton College
On January 27, 2003 the Hamilton College Objectivist Club, Chaplaincy, Hillel, Dean of Students’ Office, Arthur Levitt Public Affairs Center, and government department brought Dr. Daniel Pipes to Hamilton College. Dr. Pipes began his visit with a Q&A...
Victims of The Phillips Curve
Let’s talk about the economics of mass destruction — the single most dangerous idea in economic policy… the Phillips Curve. Even if you don’t know it by that name, you’ve been its victim. The Phillips Curve is the formal construct...
Academy Award Winner Michael Moore’s Fictitious Life
He calls Bush, Cheney, and Ashcroft the “real axis of evil.” He blamed 9-11 attacks on too many White people and not enough Black men on the planes. And in his Oscar Night diatribe, film-maker Michael Moore used his win of an Academy Award to rant against...
Let the Steel Tariffs Die
A little over a year ago, on March 5, 2002, President Bush made a serious mistake by imposing tariffs on imported steel. At the time, there were many, including myself, who said that the negative impact of this action on steel consumers would be much greater than any...
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