Bill Cosby rattled the cages again a fortnight ago in his address before Jesse Jackson's 33rd Annual Rainbow/PUSH Coalition conference in Chicago. Let's look at some of his remarks. Cosby told the audience that being poor had a different meaning to older generations...
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Digital Disgust: In Praise of Simplicity
One of the maddening things about some computer programs and computerized products is their making you fight your way through a maze of complications to do simple things. Whether you want to play chess, take a picture, or do some other obvious and straightforward...
“Friends” of Blacks
Reactions to Bill Cosby's recent criticisms of some counterproductive ghetto behavior patterns have ranged from applause from some in the black audience that heard him to a cheap attack from white liberal Barbara Ehrenreich in the New York Times. "Billionaire bashes...
Life of the Limousine Liberals: What is John Kerry’s Wife (Teresa Heinz Kerry) Hiding?
If John Kerry wins the presidency, his household will be the richest ever to occupy the White House. Kerry's wife, Teresa Heinz Kerry, controls a vast fortune estimated by a Los Angeles Times study to be as great as $900 million to $3.2 billion. Through a series of...
The “Inspirational” Dictator and the New York Yankee
Jose Contreras. Recognize the name? If the answer is no, then I'll tell you. He is a starting pitcher for the New York Yankees who is currently working with a 5-3 record. But the purpose of this article is not to discuss his pitching, but to shed some light on his...
Weapons of Crass Obstruction
This may go down in history as the year when an attempt to win an election, at all costs, led to longer run disasters that make any election pale into insignificance. The biggest and loudest political rhetoric of this year is that President Bush "lied" about weapons...
The Kerry-Edwards Ticket: The Limousine Liberal and the Litigious Lawyer Unite
Now that Senator John Kerry has named Senator John Edwards as his vice-presidential running mate, we need to examine the reality behind the images that both men have projected. Senator Kerry has been busy posing for the media shooting guns, playing hockey, declaring...
Bush to United: Fly Smarter
"Let me tell you a secret," said former Vice President Al Gore recently, President Bush is a "moral coward." Moral coward? Why the latest attack? Well, Gore accused the president of an unwillingness "to stand up and say 'no.' . . . He will not choose the public...
“The International Community”
To those who do not want to face up to hard and brutal choices in a nuclear age, the magic formula is to turn to something called "the international community" -- or, more concretely, the United Nations or "our European allies." As with so many rhetorical solutions to...
Silent Spring: RIP 2004
Ever since Rachel Carson's 1962 book "Silent Spring," environmental extremists have sought to ban all DDT use. Using phony studies from the Environmental Defense Fund and the Natural Resources Defense Council, the environmental activist-controlled Environmental...
Saddam’s Admirers
It's something beyond sickening to hear the news media fawn, almost in admiration, at how Saddam Hussein "still has spirit" and "found his way" under difficult circumstances in court today. Dan Rather's gentle tone is particularly horrifying Earth to media: The man is...
A Foreign Policy Bible for America: A Review of Peter Schwartz’s “The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America”
I have just finished reading, with great pleasure, Peter Schwartz's new booklet, The Foreign Policy of Self-Interest: A Moral Ideal for America (published by ARI Press). In just 60 clear, hard-hitting pages, Mr. Schwartz lays out the essentials of a proper foreign...
Country Joe and the Woodstock Generation
I'm a baby boomer and that's a curse. You see I'm stuck with the idiots from the sixties till my dying day as they whine and moan about injustice and mentally dwell forever in the days of tie-die shirts, incense, and free love. The news media, now controlled by baby...
The Declaration of Independence
Though the Declaration of Independence was assigned to a committee consisting of Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Benjamin Franklin, Roger Sherman and Robert B. Livingston; the document is primarily Jefferson's work, aside from a few editorial exceptions--in particular...
Ever Wonder Why People Who Hate America Live in America?
Ever wonder why people who hate America live in America? At a soccer match between Mexico and the United States a few years ago, the stands were full of Mexican flags. The fans booed when "The Star-Spangled Banner" was played and those few fans who raised American...
Ever Wonder Why Some People Hate America?
Ever wonder why some people hate America so? This is not a new phenomenon nor one confined to foreigners. More than 20 years ago, Eric Hoffer said: "Nowhere at present is there such a measureless loathing of their country by educated people as in America." Note that...
Rex Reed’s Review of Michael Moore’s “Fahrenheit 9/11”
Michael Moore's "documentary" Fahrenheit 9/11, having won the French Palm d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival earlier in the month, opened on June 25th in some 800 American theaters. In its first weekend, it led the box office with a $21.8 million gross, according to ABC...
Ever Wonder Why?
When you have seen scenes of poverty and squalor in many Third World countries, either in person or in pictures, have you ever wondered why we in America have been spared such a fate? When you have learned of the bitter oppressions that so many people have suffered...
Iraqi Optimists versus U.S. Pessimists
A majority of Americans, according to a recent poll, now call going into Iraq a mistake. Many Iraqis apparently failed to get the memo. A poll commissioned by the Coalition Provisional Authority found 63 percent of Iraqis expect conditions to improve after the...
SEC Ruling On Mutual Funds Conflicts with “Consumer Interests”
Nobel Prize economist Ronald Coase long ago warned of a political risk--that of wishing to be an "economic statesman," which he defined as a person who gives answers when there were none to give. The newest such risk was the Securities and Exchange Commission ruling...
An Explanation for Third World Poverty
Did you learn that the United States is rich because we have bountiful natural resources? That has to be nonsense. Africa and South America are probably the richest continents in natural resources but are home to the world's most miserably poor people. On the other...
Price Controls, Unemployment, and World Hunger
A recent front-page story in the Wall Street Journal told of rising hunger and malnutrition amid chronic agricultural surpluses in India. India is now exporting wheat, and even donating some to Afghanistan, while malnutrition is a growing problem within India itself....
Egalitarianism vs. “Ladies Night”
The big news in town is that "Ladies Night" is illegal. Earlier this month, it had top billing on the marquee at La Costa, a seashore bar at the intersection where New York meets Philadelphia. But New Jersey's top civil rights official, J. Frank Vespa-Papaleo, has...
Turtle Bill Oozes U.N. Agenda
On June 18, Congress cleared the way for the president to sign into law a bill committing $25 million over five years to save turtles. As expensively ridiculous as this taxpayer-funded initiative seems, its creation and ultimate passage cannot be blamed solely on...
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