Nike v. Kasky presents the Supreme Court with an opportunity to undo some of the constitutional damage resulting from the so-called “commercial speech doctrine,” the Court’s test for deciding whether self-interested speech is entitled to First...
POLITICS
Why the Left Loves Osama (and Saddam)
Has anyone noticed an indifference in the precincts of the far Left to the fatalities of 9/11 and the horrors of Saddam Hussein? Right after the 9/11 attack, German composer Karlheinz Stockhausen called it “the greatest work of art for the whole cosmos.”...
Artificial Stupidity
A recent news story about a teacher who assigned her students to write anti-war letters may have seemed like just an isolated episode, but teachers using students for their own little ego trips is by no means uncommon. Perhaps the worst recent example was a teacher...
Dixie Chicks in the Frying Pan, but Free Speech Isn’t
Dixie Chicks lead clucker Natalie Maines has fans wanting to kick her in the tail feathers. Cumulus Broadcasting is even banning the Chicks from all its 260 stations. Some have suggested, however, that the Cumulus decision violates Maines’ First Amendment...
Loving Saddam, Hating America
As the war began Wednesday evening most Americans realized that whatever their position in the war debate was, hostilities had commenced and the time for debating was over. Except of course those who could be seen protesting in major cities and getting arrested, they...
Philosophical Detection: Dissecting Slate’s Michael Kinsley
The closer a con artist gets to being exposed definitively, the more desperate he becomes. If his con relies on moral intimidation, his threats and denunciations become more and more hysterical. This is the source of Saddam Hussein’s threatening bluster in the...
Dreaming of Bonds
Last year, investors pulled $25 billion out of stock mutual funds and added $125 billion to bond mutual funds. You can hardly blame them. It’s scary out there, and, as war nears, it’s getting scarier. My view, as readers of this column have heard many...
Free Education from the Grip of Government
Each year Drexel University sends hundreds of freshmen (at the threat of not graduating) to Philadelphia public schools as part of the service-learning program managed by Junior Achievement Inc. While the alleged benefits of “forced volunteerism” in our...
America’s ‘Debt’ to the French
For the second time, the French have been instrumental in securing the independence of the United States of America. At the birth of our country, the assistance of the French monarchy was vital in our struggle against King George III. Today, the assistance of the...
A Free Market Will Solve America’s Energy Problems
In recent weeks American consumers have experienced two-dollar-per-gallon gasoline prices, and predictably, many politicians and commentators blame the “greed” of U.S. oil and power companies. The truth, however, is that shortages occur when demand exceeds...
Mandatory Labelling Is A Bad Idea
Until mid-February 2003, the US government was readying a World Trade Organisation (WTO) challenge to the European Union (EU)’s moratorium on new GM crop approvals. The EU hasn’t approved any new GM varieties since 1998, and the two varieties that are...
Deflation Myth
U.S. Federal Reserve officials, including Fed chairman Alan Greenspan, and commentators in the financial media have been worrying about deflation (a rise in the purchasing power of a currency) in recent years and months. It’s hard to figure why. Not only is...
Senate Poised to Vote on Huge Land Grab
Choosing a time when the attention of all Americans is on our conflict with Iraq, the Senate is poised to vote on a bill that would unleash a major attack on private property rights. It would empower environmental groups and government agencies to use taxpayer funds...
Market Wonders and Oil Prices
We’ve all seen gasoline prices rising; is that good news or bad news? Congress could enact price controls and “odd and even” days for gasoline purchases like they did in the 1970s. Sure we’d be paying lower prices, but the selling price of a...
America Should Withdraw From The United Nations and Let It Collapse
If its handling of Iraq was a test of the United Nations, as President Bush has indicated, then the United Nations has clearly failed. But this should be no surprise, because yet another test of the United Nations–like yet another resolution giving Saddam...
U.S. War on Iraq is Morally Legitimate
CAP MAG EXCLUSIVE: As the U.S. military stands poised (finally) to wage war against the Iraqi regime — merely one spoke in the “Axis of Evil” — critics of the Bush Administration and apologists for terror regimes claim that there’s been a...
Who Should Run America? Hollywood or the White House?
As American troops and our allies prepare to write a new future for the people of Iraq and throughout the Middle East, who would you prefer to make the critical decisions? The White House lead by President Bush or the anti-war protesters led by a gaggle of Hollywood...
‘Multilateralism’: A Dangerous Obsession
As war nears, it’s become clear that two of its instigators are Jacques Chirac, the president of France, and Hans Blix, the chief United Nations weapons inspector. If Chirac had stood with the United States and other nations in enforcing Resolution 1441...
Freedom–Not Democracy–for the Arabs in the Middle East
The Pentagon’s plans for a post-Saddam Hussein Iraq appear to be freezing out members of the Iraqi National Congress, the lead Iraqi opposition group. A senior Defense Department official yesterday said two or three free Iraqis with special expertise would be...
The Reactionary Left
We are in the midst of a radical change in world geopolitics. The twentieth century saw two major geopolitical shuffles that resulted from the world wars. The second world war’s effect remained intact through 1989 when the Soviet Union collapsed and since then...
Thought Control: Government Should Not Have the Power to Legislate Morality
You are jolted awake at 1:00 a.m. by loud knocking on the door. Alarmed, you and your girlfriend rise to answer. The police barge in and arrest you both on suspicion of having had premarital sex. Sound like something that would happen only in a dictatorship like...
They Hate Us, Too
The Sept. 11 attacks on America led many to ask, about the terrorists, “Why do they hate us?” Today, a similar question applies to those who virulently condemn a U.S. war against Iraq–along with a similar answer. It is not actually anti-war views...
The Aims and Prosecution of the War with Iraq
After months and years of unheeded ultimatums, the US stands on the brink of war with Iraq. In his television address last night, President Bush gave Saddam Hussein one last chance to save himself: he and his sons must quit Iraq within 48 hours. It is considered...
The FBI Fumbles
As an FBI agent, Gamal Abdel-Hafiz could have a key role helping America’s premier anti-terrorist force protect the United States from harm. But evidence from high-profile terrorism cases suggests that Abdel-Hafiz, an immigrant Muslim, twice refused on principle...
George W. Bush’s Tax Plan as a Replay of Reaganomics?
One of the favorite liberal myths of the 1980s is that Ronald Reagan and his advisers played an elaborate trick on the American people. They got a huge tax cut passed in 1981 by convincing Congress, the press and the American people that it would lose no revenue....
War with Iraq, the Economy, and the Stock Market
The question I get asked most these days is, “What will be the effect of war with Iraq on the economy and the stock market?” It’s a fair question, but it is also disturbing. That’s why I was grateful when, during a live discussion Feb. 26 on...
In Favor of a War Against Saddam’s Iraq
I’m in favor of war on Iraq because I don’t want to be killed by terrorists who get access to weapons it’s trying to develop. The World Trade Center attack dramatically alerted Americans to the fact that there are some people in the world who want us...
The Future of Iraq: Keep the United Nations Out
We stand on the brink of the liberation of Iraq. This liberation is long overdue, delayed by the Administration’s attempt to secure the unnecessary support of the United Nations. The President has pledged that there will be no new dictator in Iraq, and I applaud...
The Bush Contradiction: U.N. Permission for America to Defend Itself?
France and Germany rejected Britain’s compromise proposal that listed six disarmament conditions for Iraq. Dominique de Villepin, the French foreign minister, said the proposals “do not respond to the questions the international community is asking.”...
The Other Filibuster
While Senate Democrats are filibustering against the nomination of Miguel Estrada to the federal appeals court, liberals in the media are filibustering against conservative judges in general. The hallmark of these liberal media filibusters is that they can find little...
The Effects of President Bush’s Tax-reduction Proposals
The following is TCS Host James K. Glassman’s testimony before a hearing on the President’s Economic Growth Proposals before the Committee on Ways and Means of the U.S. House of Representatives. The Honorable William Thomas, chairman, was presiding. Mr....
Washington, DC, at War
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