The recent deaths of journalists in Baghdad are more than just personal tragedies. Both the chances that these journalists have taken and the indignant reactions by the surviving journalists are a sad sign of a growing lack of realism in our times, especially among...
President George W. Bush has proposed that the double taxation of dividends be eliminated. Under his plan, businesses would continue to pay tax on corporate income, but individual stockholders no longer would have to pay a second layer of tax on that income when it is...
New York Sun television critic David Blum weighs in with this confused piece on Peter Arnett's firing: This has been a dark week in the history of American television--and all because of a warp-speed rush to judgment by a network more concerned with supporting its...
by Daniel Pipes and Jonathan Calt Harris "U.S. flags are the emblem of the invading war machine in Iraq today. They are the emblem of the occupying power. The only true heroes are those who find ways that help defeat the U.S. military." Those words were spoken last...
"We've never cut taxes in time of war," Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., said last week as he voted to halve President Bush's tax-cut proposal. Even if that were true - the Kennedy tax cut, for example, dropped the top marginal rate to 70% from 91% and took effect during the...
Much of the '60s and '70s civil rights rhetoric was that black political power was necessary for economic power. In 1967, Clevelanders heeded Malcolm X's infamous "The Ballot or the Bullet" speech with the election of Carl B. Stokes, who became the nation's first...
Many of those who oppose military action in Iraq cite the cost as a principal reason. Before the war, they often exaggerated the monetary outlay, the loss of American lives, the danger of a long war and other concerns in order to discourage U.S. engagement. They were...
A San Francisco sports writer has joined the chorus of those who argue that Pete Rose should be admitted into the Baseball Hall of Fame, despite being banned from baseball for violating one of its cardinal rules, against betting on ball games. The argument is: What...
After Sept. 11, American flags were widespread, from Ground Zero to jacket lapels in Alaska. I, too, attached the Stars and Stripes to my car antenna. I've always been patriotic, but never a flag-waver. Now, I will forever keep a flag where I can see it daily. While...
An excerpt from the second edition of The Killing of History: How Literary Critics and Social Theorists Are Murdering Our Past. History is an intellectual discipline which is more than 2,400 years old. It ranks with philosophy and mathematics as one of the most...
Here's a suggestion. Let's take the millions in dues we pay to the United Nations and reallocate it to help pay the cost of our war to liberate the Iraqis? We pay more than a quarter of the operating budget for that Epicenter of Bloviation. I don't think we're getting...
While the Buckeye case may not serve as a turning point in the battle to restore property rights, it is nonetheless an ominous indicator of just how far we have to go.
Today as the United Nations appears weakened by its complete failure to be a serious player in the US-Iraq war, many of our nation's leaders dismiss concerns that the organization threatens American sovereignty. However, the major threat from the UN lies between the...
In exchange for a withdrawal of US and British troops, Saddam Hussein sends word that he is prepared to share some of his power with a senior member of his Baathist inner circle. Instead of maintaining absolute control over the Iraqi state, Saddam agrees to name Tariq...
If you would like to be taller than you are, do you think that joining a basketball team would help? After all, statistics prove that members of basketball teams are taller than other people. If this seems like a strange way to reason, it is the same kind of reasoning...
FrontPage mag published leftist Nat Hentoff's piece explaining what he did not march to protest the Iraqi war. In his article he quotes himself from a newspaper interview: "There was the disclosure . . . when the prisons were briefly opened of the gouging of eyes of...
Here's a thought experiment: Let's say that somehow -- through being more diplomatic or offering more concessions or through performing a miracle -- the Bush Administration had managed to persuade the U.N. Security Council, including France and Germany, to go along...
In war, a country convinced of the rightness of its course expects its forces to subordinate all considerations to the objective of military victory. Our government, however, has adopted the indecisive policy of "balancing" the goal of defeating the enemy in Iraq with...
One of the things that drove me craziest when I lived in Seattle several years ago was the astounding ability of the city's politicians to suck the plain meaning out of words-and to replace them with a rhetorical muddle as gray and hazy as the city's famous skies....
When the United States first bombed Iraq last week, initiating a self-defensive campaign against Saddam Hussein, I cried a tear of joy.When the US first bombed the Taliban in Afghanistan after the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks, my joy wasn't as great. Given that the...
It's back to last December 31, and we're playing a New Year's Eve guessing game. The country is heading for recession and war -- so what will the stock market do in the first quarter of the new year? If I told you that Amazon.com and Yahoo! would break out to highs...
On March 25, the Congressional Budget Office released an important study of President Bush's budget proposal. What was novel about this study is that the CBO attempted to calculate the impact of the proposal on the economy as a whole. Normally, it assumes that even...
Someone once said of Lillian Hellman that every word she uttered was a lie, including "and" and "the." Many defenders of affirmative action deserve a Lillian Hellman award. Not only is much of what they say contradicted by readily available facts, much of what they...
Like most states, Georgia is facing a severe budget crisis. Estimates place Georgia's deficit for the next fiscal year at between $800 million and $1 billion. To help remedy the situation, Governor Sonny Perdue is trying the oldest political trick in the book--he...
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