Life goes on in the post-9-11 world. So, alas, does death. [Last month], world-renowned violinist Isaac Stern left us after 81 blessed years. He died of heart failure. What a huge, roaring heart it was. As we continue to mourn and tremble and rage in the aftermath of...
POLITICS
Academic Freedom on Campus: A Contradiction in Terms?
Memo to certain college newspaper editors: David Horowitz soon will give you another chance to prove your devotion to free speech isn’t just lip service. Here’s hoping you don’t blow it the way you did last time. Yes, Horowitz, a former anti-Vietnam...
A Return to Communism in Berlin?
In June 1948, President Truman initiated the Berlin Airlift, signaling that the free world would not abandon West Berlin to the Soviets, who had imposed a total land and water blockade. In June 1953, East German workers revolted against their communist oppressors,...
Clearing the AirWaves
Somewhere, Lenny Bruce is laughing. The late comedian, arrested several times in the 1950s for saying words in his act government officials deemed “obscene,” probably would be delighted at what can be said on radio and television today — thanks in...
Debunking the Cliches of Pacifism
To the pacifist, attacker and victim are moral equals.
No Internet Taxes
Q. Says here a lot of governors are upset about Internet scofflaws not paying the taxes they owe. Who are these bums? A. Well, there’s Governor Leavitt of Utah, Governor Engler of Mich– Q. No, not the governors! I meant who are the bums who aren’t...
Some Patriotic Economic Advice: Save
Over the last couple of weeks I’ve seen financiers and economists give a lot of misguided advice about what people need to do to help the nation and themselves overcome the terrorist attacks on America. I’m a very patriotic person myself, I don’t...
Why Not Explore the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska?
In northeast Alaska, above the Arctic Circle, the snow seems to cover far more than the land. It’s so thick and deep and cold and hard that you smell next to nothing and you hear even less. Given that part of the state sees no daylight for two months of every...
Will the United Nations Become the Next IRS?
A key United Nations panel has proposed a radical plan to give international bureaucrats sweeping powers over U.S. tax policy. This scheme, which will be part of the agenda at the International Conference on Financing for Development next March, would undermine...
U.S. Intelligence is not to Blame
The next time you hear someone blame our intelligence community for the attacks, remember how many attacks they *did* stop. Then think about the fact that even given the best intelligence in the world, if you stop the terrorists time and time and time again and foil...
Social Security and the Budget
No news is good news, the saying goes. But for many politicians in Washington — especially those who oppose the Bush tax cut and the movement to create personal retirement accounts for Social Security — bad news is good news. Specifically, bad news about...
A History Lesson: Leave Us Alone, Or We Will Destroy You
America now joins ancient Greece and Rome as civilized peoples threatened not by competitors over territory or trade, but by barbarians whose only goal is our destruction. But rather than compare our situation to their unfortunate outcomes, I would like to draw a...
Stop Scapegoating Tax Havens
Thanks to President Bush’s strong leadership, America and its allies are preparing to wage a relentless war on terrorism. This means settling the score with the thugs who organized the Sept. 11 attacks and forcing changes to the rogue regimes that harbor...
Reverse Psychology 101: Pacifists, Take Up the Flag!
Dear Pacifists, I address you in the plural as protocol requires, since all humane action is collective. Listen carefully: you are being seriously deluded. The one who bids for your hero-worship is in fact your worst enemy. You say you love everyone, that the world...
Economy Demands a Bigger Tax Cut
Congressional liberals seem to have come down with a bad case of “buyer’s remorse.” They’re using the prospect of a smaller-than-expected budget surplus to say they wish they could take back a portion of President Bush’s tax cut. But if...
Pacifism Begets Violence from Terrorists
This was George Bush’s warning to the international terrorists and their sponsors: “The United States will be firm with terrorists. We will not make concessions…. If we find states supplying money, weapons, training, identification, documents,...
The Boy who Cried “Muslim”
This is the story of the boy who cried “Muslim.” It’s a story about the obscene exploitation of tragedy, the abuse of public sympathy, and the trashing of truth and honor under the guise of promoting tolerance. But this is no fable. It’s a...
NAACP vs. Racist Hollywood
Two years ago, NAACP President Kweisi Mfume called the television networks — ABC, CBS, NBC and Fox — “the most segregated industry in America.” Mfume said, “There has to be an effective strategy. We have a clear timetable of events, and...
Spitting on Friends, and Befriending Enemies
Of the five countries described below, can you identify the one(s) excluded from the US-led coalition in the war on terrorism? Country A is free and democratic, a steadfast ally of the United States. Its citizens know what it means to be victimized by terrorism, and...
The “Alleged” Attack on the World Trade Center
Since Reuters forbids their journalists to use “terrorist” in their reports (couldn’t we construe the attackers as simply irate airline customers?) and CBS, citing allegiance to “neutrality”, is mandating the T word hold hands with...
Drug Companies: Saving Lives, Making Money
Complaints about prescription drug prices have escalated in recent months. Critics contend drugs cost too much and point to drug company profits as the reason why. They also claim the pharmaceutical industry is our nation’s most profitable, and that price...
America’s True “Religion”
True or false: America is a deeply religious country that owes all its greatness to Christianity? The answer is: false. Fact is, America is not a religious country, not a Christian country, at all. Americans do not understand this–but the terrorists who struck...
A Wartime “Stimulus” Package — Tax More, or Spend Less?
Question: When does an economic “stimulus” package, well, stimulate the economy? In prosecuting this war against terrorism, the president and Congress now face a softening economy. Even before the airlines received their $15 billion “emergency aid...
The Economic Effects of Destruction: Paul Krugman and War
Each semester, I spend a few minutes explaining to my students, both graduate and undergraduate, the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Why? Mother Nature permits us to do many things, but she prohibits the construction of machines of the first and second kinds....
The U.S. in Wonderland: A Place Where Enemies Become Allies
The first round in the new war against terrorism has been lost. The “leak” of an announcement that the US favors a Palestinian state will correctly be interpreted by Arabs as proof that terrorism works. Just how strange is it that the three most obvious...
Pacificism Empowers Terrorism
In the weeks following the 11 September attack, organizations across the nation– especially on college campuses–have gathered to rally in support of Adolf Hitler. They’ve posted signs, handed-out leaflets, and written editorials proclaiming their...
The Autism Dilemma
Back on September 28, 1993, a group of parents of late-talking children was formed for mutual support, with my help, and grew until there were 55 families, scattered from coast to coast. Some of their children were diagnosed as autistic, though most of these diagnoses...
Islam and the West
Terrorist organizations in the Middle East are trying to bill the current crisis as a confrontation between Islam and the West — as in the Jihads and Crusades of centuries past. But there is no need for the rest of us to go along with that. Six years ago,...
A Monument to the 20th Century’s Greatest Mass Murderer in Seattle
In America, we’re free to be stupid. Still, as Rosenberg pointed out, a statue of Lenin is no more funny or wacky than a statue of Hitler. In 1986, I took my teen-age son to Berlin. We went to the Berlin Wall, of course, and even crossed it to visit East Berlin....
A Kindler, Gentler…Less-Fit Military
Walk, don’t run. That’s an order for the service men and women of U.S. Southern Command headquarters in Miami. Their weekly fitness runs were terminated this past August when a female officer claimed they were “demeaning.” According to media...
Is Islam at Fault?
There is a lot of confusion about the nature of Islam, and the extent to which it is the religion itself, as opposed to an “extremist” wing of it, that breeds terrorism. President Bush believes that Islam has been “hijacked” by the terrorists...
End States That Sponsor Terrorism
Fifty years of increasing American appeasement in the Mideast have led to fifty years of increasing contempt in the Muslim world for the U.S. The climax was September 11, 2001.
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