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...
POLITICS
The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men. – AYN RAND
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 the...
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 terrorists...
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 they understood how tax cuts...
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, travel, or safe haven...
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 true-life, hoax-crime caper:...
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 we would caution anyone who...
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 "alleged" or some other like...
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 controls...
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 us on...
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 package," the...
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 allies of the...
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 steadfast support....
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, Professor...
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. After...
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 reports, the officer...
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 for their own use, and...
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.
Why Do They Hate Us?
They condemn us for the "arrogant imperialism" of our foreign policy. They claim America is motivated by a predatory greed to plunder the world's natural resources. They say that we are the real terrorists and that we deserved Black Tuesday's attacks. Why do these...
Barry Bond’s Great Baseball Season
There was a certain painful irony when Barry Bonds passed Mickey Mantle in lifetime home runs. Mantle hit 536 home runs in his great career, but he was washed up when he was at the same age at which Bonds is now having his greatest season. Mickey himself blamed...
More Hypocrisy from the UN
The UN Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance in Durban, South Africa recently adjourned. If you heard or read any of the Press coverage of this event, you know that the organizers and participants regretted that the...
Is Your Personal Computer Protected From Terrorists? Part 2
There's an old saying that goes something like this: "Just because you're paranoid, it doesn't mean they're not out to get you." I urge all of you to be paranoid to the nth degree with respect to taking precautions to protect your computer against viruses and hackers....
Why Won’t Valuations Come Down? They Will!
A report Tuesday from Steve Galbraith, strategist at Morgan Stanley, slashed his 2001 earnings forecast for the S&P 500 from $51 to $46 -- about a 10% cut. But from the 1092 S&P close the day before the September 11 terrorist attack through the 1003 close last...
Self Defense is Job One
"Well, I just think that you're painting a horrible picture of what we're about," said Senator Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., in response to the question I asked last week. My question that provoked such an indignant response? "Senator," I said, "I heard one of the news...
The “Trickle Down” Economics Straw Man
Among the suggestions being made for getting the American economy moving up again is a reduction in the capital gains tax. But any such suggestion makes people on the left go ballistic. It is "trickle down" economics, they cry. Liberals claim that those who favor tax...
Mandatory National ID Cards….for our politicians
Crisis is good for statist-leaning governments such as ours because it affords them the opportunity to package new oppressions under the guise of needed security. Lately, we've been treated to the idea of a national ID card so our police can tell good guys from bad...
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