POLITICS

Jesse Jackson is a fraud, and so is his “civil rights” cause. It has come to light that the pious reverend has a mistress and an illegitimate 2-year-old daughter. This came as a shock to his wife and legitimate children, but it is the least of the...

What is it about guns that causes liberals to go berserk and blame inanimate objects for human behavior? Are liberals that much more emotional and less rational than the rest of us, or have liberals made guns the scapegoat for the consequences of liberal policies that...

In an unexpected break with long-standing U.S. policy, President Clinton recently ordered an administration official to sign a treaty that would create an International Criminal Court. This despite what he calls “significant flaws” in the document that...

In this poisonous era of identity politics, it is impossible to raise questions about a prominent minority figure without being branded a racist. But since I am an Asian-American, and the subject of my scrutiny is an Asian-American, perhaps we can put aside the race...

The Founding Fathers entrusted the Supreme Court with the protection of the rights enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Constitution. By this standard, the proper yardstick for evaluating Supreme Court rulings is their impact on...

President Clinton triumphs again. His relentless propaganda machine, in the last throes of its legacy-building frenzy, sent out a White House press release this week heralding the success of AmeriCorps. Created in 1993, this big-government boondoggle pays young people...

read a bumpersticker today which said: “It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity.” This expression misses a crucial point. Our technology is in fact a consequence of our humanity. Technology comes about only because of...

This Christmas season witnessed no shortage of protesters who were outraged at the thought of all the nice gifts exchanged over the holiday season having been manufactured in so-called “sweatshops”. In an act of monumental hubris, middle-class Harvard...

George Bush’s secretary of labor nominee, Linda Chavez, withdrew her nomination under charges of hiring a worker and not paying minimum wages plus applicable taxes. This was just character assassination by those who didn’t want to see her confirmed because...

George Bush looks like he’ll try to stick to his promise about cutting income tax rates, but his team’s recent justifications, while politically expedient, are obscuring the real case for tax cuts. Given that the U.S. economy is showing signs of slowing,...

Many say that the recent presidential election debacle verged on a constitutional crisis. Looking back at last year’s events, let’s apply some perspective. Take a moment and examine what the real crisis is. Americans are forced to pay for an ever-expanding...

Whatever else may be said about the Clinton era, the past eight years have not been kind to those who believe the public’s business should be conducted in public. Restoring an appreciation in the nation’s capital for the people’s right to know should...

You often hear the phrase “control freak” used in a negative sense. I have even used it myself to describe authoritarian personalities. Authoritarian personalities are people who place a desire to be “right” (that is, seen as right) above the...

With just a week left before the new president takes office, our government is engaged in a frenzy of lawmaking. No, Congress has not convened to consider legislation, and no, your elected representatives will not decide whether these new federal rules go into effect....

The federal surplus for the close of fiscal year 2000 was nearly double the surplus for the prior year. This is a problem! A massive, growing federal surplus is a signal that the government is taking too much of our money. Back in the days of the federal deficit, we...

Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law, new...

O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran and friends want to file a big-bucks, class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for slavery. On what legal grounds, against whom, on behalf of whom, and in which court? The attorneys haven’t figured out those pesky details yet....

If the November elections had put Democrats in control of the House of Representatives, I would have expected John Conyers, D-Mich., to introduce legislation that would set up a committee to decide who would qualify for reparations for slavery, whether they should be...

On-again, off-again experiments with free-market policies don’t lead to happy economic endings In a scene from Alfred Hitchcock’s 1954 movie “Rear Window,” Jimmy Stewart and Grace Kelly argue about whether they’ll ever marry. Kelly wants...

If Indians want to reap multi-million-dollar profits from casino gambling, they should be required to shed their legal status as societal victims and compete on a level playing field. Savvy tribes, armed with lawyers and lobbyists, are targeting non-tribal lands in...

The World Bank boasts an ambitious motto: “Our Dream is a World Free of Poverty.” But looking at the bank’s recent loan policies, maybe it should be: “Our Dream is a World Free of Wealth.” Why? Because the Bank is now...