We face an enemy that believes deeply that God is on their side. Our enemies fight both because they hate us and because they believe that, with God's help, they will triumph over us one day soon. For our enemies, this is not simply a platitude, a statement of...
POLITICS
Questions About the War, Militant Islam, and Self-Defense
A reader asked the following questions, and since they're asked politely and with seeming sincerity, I'll answer them. Question 1: What is a 'militant Muslim', how do you suppose you round them up and how exactly do you get rid of them? More to the point, what creates...
Eyes on the Prizes
Contrary to the impression you may get watching all-day TV stock market shows, investing is not a sport. It's a serious endeavor - specifically, a means to a better life for you and your family. If you invest wisely, you can acquire wealth for goals such as a down...
The Enemy Within
The day after 9/11, Texas police arrested two Indian Muslim men riding a train and carrying about $5,000 in cash, black hair dye and boxcutters like those used to hijack four planes just one day earlier. [The police held the pair initially on immigration charges...
Pacifist Ignorance About Intelligence
Never underestimate the unwillingness of a pacifist to give up on his dogma, no matter how much factual evidence is presented demonstrating the folly in his approach. And, so it has been in the weeks following Colin Powell's intelligence exhibition on Hussein's...
Jenny from the Block
There is this song that has been on the airwaves for the past month where Jennifer Lopez, the current femme-fatal of the entertainment world sings the following chorus: "Don't be fooled by the rocks that I gotI'm still, I'm still Jenny from the blockUsed to have a...
The Libertarian Anti-Manifesto
Susan Lee, a member of the Wall Street Journal editorial board, has an essay in Wednesday's edition of that paper arguing in favor of "libertarianism." Superficially, she makes a strong argument for the libertarian manifesto: [L]ibertarians are concerned with...
Hard Times for Envy
When driving down the highway with my car on cruise control and the stereo playing "Stompin' at the Savoy," I am in heaven. There are millions of later model cars on the road, and no doubt some better stereo systems, as well as more scenic highways. But why should I...
98% of Economists Did Not Sign the Petition Opposing the Bush Tax Cuts!
The Economic Policy Institute, a left-wing advocacy group, has collected the signatures of 400 economists -- including 10 Nobel prize winners -- on a statement opposing President Bush's tax cuts. It is running this week as a full-page advertisement in the New York...
On Deterrence
In recent months, there has been much discussion of deterrence, much praise of the strategy which contained the Soviet Union for fifty years until its ultimate collapse, and many figures arguing that we should rely on deterrence to contain dangerous regimes. The key...
Bad Economics in One Lesson
On Tuesday, the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), a left-leaning Washington think tank, published a full-page ad in The New York Times condemning the proposed Bush tax cuts. This pro-tax statement is signed by more than 400 economists, including 10 Nobel laureates --...
War and the Economy
What's worrying the stock market? War. Sure, investors are disappointed that corporate profits have not rebounded vigorously and that the economy grew, just 0.7 percent in the fourth quarter of last year. But those problems, too, are linked to the imminent conflict...
The Mystical, Magical “Economy”
Many speak of "the economy" as if it were some mystical god we exist to serve: Tax cuts for the rich won't help "the economy." Will that plan boost "the economy?" A nation's economy is not a cause but an effect: the effect of the productive activities of a multitude...
Money, Wealth, and the Corruption of Government
It was hardly the end of an era, but the opening of the 108th Congress on January 07, 2003, brought the curtain down on the short tenure of Minnesota Senator Dean Barkley, a longtime ally of now-former Governor Jesse Ventura who obtained his Senate post two months ago...
Investing in Utilities
If President Bush gets his way, investors will soon be receiving their dividends tax-free. You'd figure that one sector to benefit would be gas and electric utilities, which through the years have offered consistently high dividends. Right now, the average yield on...
Drexel University: A Modern Business?
Drexel University is very often accused by students and faculty of being "run like a business" while pointing to its shortcomings and ignorant "customer service" as proof of it. When one hears of so many bad experiences with the Drexel administration and considers the...
High Noon with Iraq
In his address before the United Nations Security Council, US Secretary of State Colin Powell made it absolutely clear: instead of dismantling its weapons of mass destruction in plain sight of the world, Iraq has engaged in a deliberate program of deceit and...
The United Nations Against Individual Rights
The American delegate put a brave face on it. "This is not a defeat for the United States," US Ambassador Kevin Moley said after Libya was elected to the chairmanship of the United Nations' highest human rights panel on Monday. "This is a defeat for the Human Rights...
Give Minority Youngsters a Lousy Education and Then Admit Them to College By Quotas
It has been said that, when Ronald Reagan was governor of California, someone told him that admitting students to the University of California on individual performance alone could mean that all the students at Berkeley might be Asian Americans. "So what?" was the...
The Unjust Discrimination of Central Planning
Johnnie Cochran's wife, Dale Mason Cochran, hit the jackpot as a member of a victim group in 1996, the year after O.J. was found not guilty of murder. Victimhood can be rewarding.Under a program designed to help companies owned by disadvantaged women or minorities,...
Martin Luther King’s Dream vs. Hillary Clinton’s Nightmare
Under the pretense of combating racism, “diversity” advocates such as Clinton actually champion its basis, racial collectivism, and destroy individualism, its only antidote.
Damaging Admissions: Increasing Faculty Diversity
Not the least of the damage done by affirmative action is damage to the English language. In addition to all the euphemisms concocted to evade the simple fact of racial quotas and double standards, there has long been a fog of obscure phrases shrouding the issues...
Mommy, There’s A Monster Under My Bed! (A Review of Global Warming and Other Eco-Myths)
Beginning with the publication of "Silent Spring", the environmental movement has become progressively disconnected from science and more rigidly defined by a utopian ideology. Based primarily on exaggerations, distortions, and a willful neglect of valid scientific...
Powell’s Paper Tiger Show
President Bush has kept his promise to dispatch Secretary of State Colin Powell to make the case against Iraq before the United Nations -- and, by doing so, he has totally capitulated to the whims of world opinion. The premise of Powell's speech is that America must...
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