It has been said that, when Ronald Reagan was governor of California, someone told him that admitting students to the University of California on individual performance alone could mean that all the students at Berkeley might be Asian Americans. “So what?”...
Johnnie Cochran’s wife, Dale Mason Cochran, hit the jackpot as a member of a victim group in 1996, the year after O.J. was found not guilty of murder. Victimhood can be rewarding. Under a program designed to help companies owned by disadvantaged women or...
Under the pretense of combating racism, “diversity” advocates such as Clinton actually champion its basis, racial collectivism, and destroy individualism, its only antidote.
Not the least of the damage done by affirmative action is damage to the English language. In addition to all the euphemisms concocted to evade the simple fact of racial quotas and double standards, there has long been a fog of obscure phrases shrouding the issues...
Beginning with the publication of “Silent Spring”, the environmental movement has become progressively disconnected from science and more rigidly defined by a utopian ideology. Based primarily on exaggerations, distortions, and a willful neglect of valid...
President Bush has kept his promise to dispatch Secretary of State Colin Powell to make the case against Iraq before the United Nations — and, by doing so, he has totally capitulated to the whims of world opinion. The premise of Powell’s speech is that...
Lawyers are supposed to act as advocates, defending the individual rights of their clients before the law. In any controversy, be it civil or criminal, the case must revolve around the parties, not their counsel. Yet that is no longer a guiding principle for many...
The name “Glassman” has been popping up a lot lately. And it’s not just me and my family. In fact, with the exception of my brother, the illustrious Washington veterinarian, I am not related to any of the recently famous Glassmans, who include such...
The ground of east Texas trembled with the horror overhead. The shock waves spread as the worst fears were confirmed: space shuttle Columbia had turned from a high-precision machine into a lifeless meteor, its crew lost. Americans were hit with a degree of shock not...
Historians have always been fascinated by the falls of great civilizations such as ancient Greece and Rome. But no fall contains more important lessons for mankind than the fall of the United States of America, which ended the Age of Invisible Virtue and plunged the...
Last week, the leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark and the Czech Republic publicly declared their support for America against Iraq. Joining together in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal, The Times of London and other...
Gold traded above $370 per ounce at the end of last month, for the first time in six years. Anxiety about war with Iraq has no doubt contributed to gold’s surge — but a look at history suggests that gold may be telling us as much about Alan Greenspan as it...
North Korea is a hold-over from the Cold War, and what is required to deal with them is old-fashioned Cold War brinksmanship.
For those few of us in the mainstream media who openly support Second Amendment rights, research scholar John Lott has been — or rather, had been — an absolute godsend. Armed with top-notch credentials (including stints at Stanford, Rice, UCLA, Wharton,...
While the nation’s pundits are praising the President for his State of the Union speech, conservatives are falling all over themselves lauding Bush for explaining why the weakest state sponsor of terrorism — Iraq — ought to be attacked. Pundits,...
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Commander Rick Husband, pilot William “Willy” McCool, flight engineer Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist Michael Anderson, medical officer and flight surgeon Laurel Clark, mission specialist David Brown, and Israeli astronaut...
America’s foremost ally, Tony Blair’s Britain, has asked the United States for more time to convince the members of the United Nations Security Council of the need for war against Iraq. Blair is worried because his supporters in the Labour Party do not...
Thomas Watkins, Michigan’s superintendent of public schools, is on a mission to expand his authority beyond the traditional K-12 boundaries. If given his way, every child in the state–practically from birth–would become the exclusive property of...
IRVINE, CA–An alleged conspiracy between journalists and terrorists to promote the Palestinian cause should be thoroughly investigated, said Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. The director of Israel’s Government Press Office,...
History does not literally repeat itself, but sometimes it comes awfully close. Iraq is not the first dangerous dictatorship that international agreements tried to keep disarmed. Nor is it the first where that effort failed. Back in the 1930s, Germany’s military...
Editor’s note: This is a parody, similar in style to the Onion. Rep. Charlie Rangel (D- NY) took his “fairness in the military” proposal a step further this month. The congressman is now calling for what he calls “affirmative casualties”...
President Bush is very vocal about his religious beliefs; he likes to preach publicly about “the power of faith” and “the vital place of faith in the life of our nation.” This does not bother most Americans, who believe that while the President...
This weekend, the Duke and University of Connecticut’s women’s basketball teams will square-off in a nationally televised #1-vs.-#2 contest. Coincidentally, this matchup comes the same week that a Bush administration advisory panel completes its...
Webster’s dictionary defines bankruptcy as a state of financial ruin-the inability to pay one’s debts. That sure sounds like what is going on in California where Governor Gray Davis and the Democrats have saddled taxpayers with a massive 35 billion dollar...
My previous columns here have been about President Bush’s bold tax-cut proposal — how it will help the economy grow, and how some of the criticisms of it are wrong. Today’s column sets those issues aside and looks at the simple short-term impact that...
The cloning debate resumed late last December with the announcement–still unconfirmed–that a cloned baby was born to an American woman. This report essentially mocked the consensus that emerged in Congress over the past year, which agreed that reproductive...
In terms of domestic affirms, the President presented a contradictory message on health care. On the one hand, he praised the “skill and innovation” of America’s medical system. But he also said that the role of the federal government was to ensure...
Fifty percent of marriages in America today are said to end in divorce. “Joe Millionaire,” the popular “reality” TV show, provides an example as to why romance too often dies. The show is allegedly a test of “true love.” That test,...
President Bush’s critics wasted no time denouncing his latest economic plan. “An irresponsible, ineffective, ideologically driven wish list,” Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., put it. “Too steeped in conservative ideology,” The Washington...
This Monday the U.S. Justice Department crossed the line when they decided the First Amendment no longer applied where antitrust issues are concerned. According to today’s New York Times, the DOJ will announce a “consent decree” today with Village...
In an admission that they have no congressional leadership to offer, the Democrats won’t send Tom Daschle or Nancy Pelosi to deliver the Democratic rebuttal to the president’s State of the Union address. They have given that job to Washington Governor Gary...
401(k) retirement plans — those marvelous engines of empowered financial liberation, in which an employee decides how much to contribute toward his own tax-advantaged retirement account, and directs the account’s investment himself — have come under...
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