POLITICS

It’s hard to come off as more bizarre than Madonna (she works at it) but that’s how Mohammed Saeed Sahaf, Iraq’s information minister, looks on TV as I’m writing this. With U.S. jets controlling the air over his head and American soldiers just...

A mixed economy is when Republicans and Democrats reach an unspoken, silent agreement. The silent agreement is as follows. Republicans don’t want socialism. At the same time, they’re terrified of endorsing principles such as freedom, individual rights and...

Yesterday, in civilization’s cradle, they danced. After Marines knocked one of Saddam Hussein’s statues off its pedestal, joyful Iraqi men danced as they dragged its decapitated head through the streets of their capital, while others symbolically beat...

There’s a little known law called the Davis-Bacon Act of 1931. It remains on the books today. Before saying what the law is and its effects, let me run by you some of the language used, in the early 1930s, to push the law through Congress. Rep. John Cochran of...

President George W. Bush has proposed that the double taxation of dividends be eliminated. Under his plan, businesses would continue to pay tax on corporate income, but individual stockholders no longer would have to pay a second layer of tax on that income when it is...

New York Sun television critic David Blum weighs in with this confused piece on Peter Arnett’s firing: This has been a dark week in the history of American television–and all because of a warp-speed rush to judgment by a network more concerned with...

by Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Calt Harris “U.S. flags are the emblem of the invading war machine in Iraq today. They are the emblem of the occupying power. The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military.” Those words were...

Much of the ’60s and ’70s civil rights rhetoric was that black political power was necessary for economic power. In 1967, Clevelanders heeded Malcolm X’s infamous “The Ballot or the Bullet” speech with the election of Carl B. Stokes, who...

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....

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...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...