Racial preferences, quotas and affirmative action in university admission practices have lost political and, increasingly, legal support. As a result, states such as California, Texas and Florida have implemented a substitute practice called “percentage...
POLITICS
“Battered Truth Syndrome” or Battered Truth Syndrome?
“Battered woman syndrome” — the politically correct legal rationalization for letting cold-blooded female killers off the hook — is now an issue in the California governor’s race. Are both Democrats and Republicans really so desperate to...
You Can’t Win a War without Going to War
The spirits are up at the White House these days: everybody’s busy congratulating themselves for a war well fought and deservedly won. That we deserve to win the War on Terror is beyond respectable dispute (although, evidently, not beyond dispute altogether)....
Making Better Decisions
How to make better decisions — big and small? Here are some tips. 1. Assume certainty is possible. You’re certain the sky is blue. You’re certain where you’re standing or sitting right now is where you’re standing or sitting. You can...
Nobel Prize for Economics Rewards Voodoo and Not Science, Part 2
In The New York Times of October 11th , right next to the article on the latest Nobel Prize winners in economics, is another titled Expansive Role for Greenspan Brings Out Critics of Fed’s Chief. The article recounts how Alan Greenspan has been called upon (and...
Why The Insanity Defense Is Insane, Part II
A reader writes in: I respectfully disagree with your “shooting-from-the-hip” and “un-objective-like” quick analysis of the Yates killings (see Daily Dose column 2/28/02–“Why the Insanity Defense is Insane” ). I haven’t...
Nobel Prize for Economics Rewards Voodoo and Not Science, Part 1
The economic and foreign policies of governments — for good or ill — exert a dramatic influence on investors’ portfolios. If that isn’t obvious by now, given the policies of the past two years, it will never be so. In economic policy...
Who Are We? We’ve Abandoned our Heritage of Individual Rights for Religion
One of the conditions associated with neurosis is a weakened sense of personal identity. Nations, too, sometimes suffer from not knowing the values they live for and defend. Our rallying cry is “freedom,” but what exactly does that mean? If we turn back to...
A Broadband Customer Service Update
My readers know that customer service (or customer no-service) is a running theme throughout my articles. I am constantly aghast at the number of companies who don’t understand that their real business is to provide customer service. You may gain a few customers...
Memo: Spit on the U.S. Diplomats and Sue the Saudis
To: 9/11 victims and their families From: Daniel Pipes Subject: Compensation You have been engaged in an unfortunate spat with the U.S. government over the money you deserve for your losses on 9/11, prompting anger all around. Here’s a solution: Forget...
Dissecting the Principles Underlying Campaign Finance Reform
The unacknowledged principle behind the recently passed House of Representatives “campaign finance reform” bill: Established media giants (CBS, ABC, New York Times) have a constitutional right to be free of restrictions on what they air or publish. (This...
Israel’s Suicide
With unremitting ferocity, Arab terrorists this weekend again attacked Israelis through suicide bombing and sniper fire–brutally killing 22. Despite such carnage, despite Yasser Arafat’s hollow promises to quell such violence, despite his record of...
Why The Insanity Defense Is Insane
Andrea Yates, charged with killing her five young children, is attempting to prove that she was insane at the time and is therefore not responsible. “Insane” in this context is defined by our legal theorists simply as “not knowing right from...
A New “History” Book in the Spirit of Multiculturalism
Could it be that an important textbook is proselytizing American 12-year-olds to convert to Islam? The book in question is “Across the Centuries” (Houghton Mifflin, 2nd edition, 1999), a 558-page history that covers the millennium and a half between the...
Return of the Death Tax: How Tax Rate “Reductions” Will Turn Into Tax Rate Increases
Some conservatives may be grumbling about the fact that Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle single-handedly killed President Bush’s plan to “stimulate” the flagging economy shortly before the Christmas recess. But they shouldn’t. The president...
Alan Greenspan and Gold: Lingering Doubts?
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Books: Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
It is hard for those who did not witness it to grasp the depths of irrationalism and violence to which our culture—-or at least its leaders—descended in the late ’60s.
Little Caesars in the Senate
A “little Caesar,” before it referred to a pizza delivery mascot, used to refer to a petty official — or gangster — with delusions of grandeur, the type who seeks power for the pleasure of abusing it. The Enron investigation is making it clear...
Black on White Crime Doesn’t Matter
Where violent crime takes place between blacks and whites, the cases overwhelmingly involve a black perpetrator and a white victim.
Patriots Taxed by Taxes
American companies are incorporating into Bermuda to lower their taxes. Some people suggest that this growing trend is unpatriotic. In reality, these companies are acting in the spirit of America’s original patriots. The New York Times reported1 that these...
Understanding “Skategate”
Skategate, international scandal! Frankly, some of us expected a few eyebrows to raise when, during a retrospective piece on the 1972 Munich Olympics, NBC referred to the terrorists who killed 11 Israeli athletes as “commandos.” But we digress. Try and...
In Search of…the Right Motivation?
Many people assume that they can’t accomplish their goals until they have “the right motivation.” They will even seek psychological help in order to establish “the right motivation” before taking any steps towards a goal. This is a...
Birth of Big Brother: How the Court deep-sixed the Tenth
Don’t make the fatal mistake of believing government can’t do anything right. No organization could expand to the point of commanding a budget in excess of two trillion dollars and be completely inept — not even the bumbling bureaucracy in...
Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control by Stanton Peele
America is suffering from an epidemic of pseudo-diseases, says psychologist Stanton Peele.
California Republican’s Choices
When California Republicans vote in next Tuesday’s primary, they will face a much less difficult choice for their party’s nomination for governor than they had just a few weeks ago. Until recently, liberal Republican Richard Riordan, former mayor of Los...
Sept 11th: Lest we Forget
Run to the grocery store this week and buy the Feb. 25, 2002, issue of People magazine. The cover photo is a special, double-paged layout that you must see. No, it’s not a Victoria’s Secret model shoot. No, it’s not the cast of “Friends”...
Cutting Taxes Faster Would Help Everyone
The bulk of President Bush’s tax cut won’t take effect until at least 2004. It is scheduled to disappear in 2011. The president may have been pushed into this deal politically last year, but it was a mistake. Fortunately, in his State of the Union address,...
Building Self Confidence
It was the final hockey game of a lousy season. We had won the first three games in my senior year at Salem High School, beating Danvers, Revere, and Marblehead, but had then lost the next half dozen games, five of them by a single goal. So we badly wanted to win this...
“Do the Opposite” on Taxes
Fans of the TV show “Seinfeld” will remember an episode in which perpetual loser George Costanza announces a major shift in attitude: From that point on, he will simply “do the opposite” of whatever he would normally do in any given situation....
Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Missing Surplus
Even if you’re not a fan of detective stories, you may enjoy this recently discovered Sherlock Holmes story – one that few devotees of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even knew existed. It’s called “The Case of the Missing Surplus.”
Black History Month
What is called Black History Month might more accurately be called “the sins of white people” month. The “sins” of any branch of the human race are virtually inexhaustible, but the history of blacks in America includes a lot more than the sins...
Modern Keynesian Macroeconomics — An Assault on the Human Mind
Nearly half a century ago the popular economist John Maynard Keynes wrote, “Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air,...
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