Historians have always been fascinated by the falls of great civilizations such as ancient Greece and Rome. But no fall contains more important lessons for mankind than the fall of the United States of America, which ended the Age of Invisible Virtue and plunged the...
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North Korea: Defending America’s Second Front
North Korea is a hold-over from the Cold War, and what is required to deal with them is old-fashioned Cold War brinksmanship.
The Other Lott Controversy
For those few of us in the mainstream media who openly support Second Amendment rights, research scholar John Lott has been -- or rather, had been -- an absolute godsend. Armed with top-notch credentials (including stints at Stanford, Rice, UCLA, Wharton, Cornell, the...
Greenspan Returns to “Barbarous Relic” Gold
Gold traded above $370 per ounce at the end of last month, for the first time in six years. Anxiety about war with Iraq has no doubt contributed to gold's surge -- but a look at history suggests that gold may be telling us as much about Alan Greenspan as it is about...
An Axis of Valor
Last week, the leaders of Britain, Spain, Italy, Portugal, Hungary, Poland, Denmark and the Czech Republic publicly declared their support for America against Iraq. Joining together in a letter published in the Wall Street Journal, The Times of London and other...
State of the Union, Then and Now
While the nation's pundits are praising the President for his State of the Union speech, conservatives are falling all over themselves lauding Bush for explaining why the weakest state sponsor of terrorism -- Iraq -- ought to be attacked. Pundits, conservatives and...
Hail Columbia
On Saturday, February 1, 2003, Commander Rick Husband, pilot William "Willy" McCool, flight engineer Kalpana Chawla, mission specialist Michael Anderson, medical officer and flight surgeon Laurel Clark, mission specialist David Brown, and Israeli astronaut Ilan Ramon...
Journalists Helping Palestinian Terrorists?
IRVINE, CA--An alleged conspiracy between journalists and terrorists to promote the Palestinian cause should be thoroughly investigated, said Dr. Yaron Brook, executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute. The director of Israel's Government Press Office, Daniel...
No Preschooler Left Behind
Thomas Watkins, Michigan's superintendent of public schools, is on a mission to expand his authority beyond the traditional K-12 boundaries. If given his way, every child in the state--practically from birth--would become the exclusive property of state authorities....
A War of Liberation is Always a Just War
America's foremost ally, Tony Blair's Britain, has asked the United States for more time to convince the members of the United Nations Security Council of the need for war against Iraq. Blair is worried because his supporters in the Labour Party do not support a war...
‘Affirmative Casualties’ in War: Equal Death Among the Races! (Parody)
Editor's note: This is a parody, similar in style to the Onion.Rep. Charlie Rangel (D- NY) took his "fairness in the military" proposal a step further this month. The congressman is now calling for what he calls "affirmative casualties" in war, a move he says will...
Disarming a Country: The Parallels Between Hitler’s Germany and Hussein’s Iraq
History does not literally repeat itself, but sometimes it comes awfully close. Iraq is not the first dangerous dictatorship that international agreements tried to keep disarmed. Nor is it the first where that effort failed. Back in the 1930s, Germany's military...
Bush’s Faith-Based Initiative Against Freedom
President Bush is very vocal about his religious beliefs; he likes to preach publicly about "the power of faith" and "the vital place of faith in the life of our nation." This does not bother most Americans, who believe that while the President personally wants to...
Discriminating Against Achievement
This weekend, the Duke and University of Connecticut's women's basketball teams will square-off in a nationally televised #1-vs.-#2 contest. Coincidentally, this matchup comes the same week that a Bush administration advisory panel completes its recommendations for...
Reason, Not Pretense
The cloning debate resumed late last December with the announcement--still unconfirmed--that a cloned baby was born to an American woman. This report essentially mocked the consensus that emerged in Congress over the past year, which agreed that reproductive cloning...
The Short Term Impact of President Bush’s Bold Tax-cut Proposal
My previous columns here have been about President Bush's bold tax-cut proposal -- how it will help the economy grow, and how some of the criticisms of it are wrong. Today's column sets those issues aside and looks at the simple short-term impact that the plan would...
State of Bankruptcy in the People’s Republic of California
Webster's dictionary defines bankruptcy as a state of financial ruin-the inability to pay one's debts. That sure sounds like what is going on in California where Governor Gray Davis and the Democrats have saddled taxpayers with a massive 35 billion dollar...
The State of the Union 2003: A Fascist Stance on Several Domestic Issues
In terms of domestic affirms, the President presented a contradictory message on health care. On the one hand, he praised the "skill and innovation" of America's medical system. But he also said that the role of the federal government was to ensure "high quality,...
The Impoverished Values of “Joe Millionaire”
Fifty percent of marriages in America today are said to end in divorce. "Joe Millionaire," the popular "reality" TV show, provides an example as to why romance too often dies. The show is allegedly a test of "true love." That test, however, starts with a lie: Evan...
Forcing Newspapers to Publish Against Their Will
This Monday the U.S. Justice Department crossed the line when they decided the First Amendment no longer applied where antitrust issues are concerned. According to today's New York Times, the DOJ will announce a "consent decree" today with Village Voice Media and New...
The Self-Made State of the States
In an admission that they have no congressional leadership to offer, the Democrats won't send Tom Daschle or Nancy Pelosi to deliver the Democratic rebuttal to the president's State of the Union address. They have given that job to Washington Governor Gary Locke, who...
Social Insecurity: 401(k)s Under Attack
401(k) retirement plans -- those marvelous engines of empowered financial liberation, in which an employee decides how much to contribute toward his own tax-advantaged retirement account, and directs the account's investment himself -- have come under heavy attack...
The State of the Union 2003: A Pro-American Foreign Policy
In this year's State of the Union address, it was said by many that President Bush would have to clearly make the case for war with Iraq before the American people to answer the fears of a wavering public. In the President's speech before the nation, that case was...
What the American Economy Needs
President Bush's critics wasted no time denouncing his latest economic plan. "An irresponsible, ineffective, ideologically driven wish list," Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., put it. "Too steeped in conservative ideology," The Washington Post said. The president is...
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