POLITICS

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,...

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...

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...

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,...

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”...

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...

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...

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...

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...

Senator Russ Feingold, Wisconsin Democrat, announced on January 7th, 2002 that he would sponsor legislation to limit the number of radio stations a single company could own. Feingold seeks to challenge the looming relaxation of ownership rules sought by Federal...

An excerpt from the Introduction of Daniel Pipe’s latest book Militant Islam Reaches America . Ayatollah Khomeini came to power in Iran in 1979 with “Death to America” as his slogan, and hundreds of Americans lost their lives to militant Islam over...

On the eve of its planned war against the dictatorship of Saddam Hussein, the United States — led by President Bush — is once again hesitating. Why? Because Russia, France and Germany have declared that they won’t like us and will call us mean if we...

Alberta’s premier, Ralph Klein, recently mused out loud about implementing a voucher system for education, which lets individual parents decide which school, public or private, will receive their education dollars. Predictably, champions of public education were...

Earlier this week, on CNN’s Late Edition and CBS’s Face the Nation , Secretary of State Colin Powell proclaimed his support of the University of Michigan’s use of racial preferences to bolster minority enrollments in its undergraduate and law school...

There is a battle that is raging down in Australia that may well have ramifications throughout academia. Academic, historian and author Keith Windschuttle is conducting a courageous one-man crusade against Australia’s academic establishment–and has them...

The writing of history is one of the most enduring cultural activities of Western civilisation. It originated in ancient Greece some 2400 years ago and has continued in roughly the same form down to this day. Its first great practitioner, Thucydides, decided that to...