It's been nearly a week since Trent Lott got all misty for Strom Thurmond's 1948 segregationist campaign for president, and yet not one of his peers in the Senate has called for his ouster as Majority leader. Not one Senator has demanded the Senate censure Lott for...
POLITICS
The Pseudo-Science of Rubinomics
What is "economic analysis" when it comes from a newspaper? It's usually just like Daniel Altman's "Economic Analysis" column in the New York Times this morning: a montage of sound-bites from "experts" (or, if not experts -- are there really any "experts" in the...
Hope for Iran
Americans who care about Iran had something to be grateful for this Thanksgiving: The State Department finally came out foursquare in support of the hundreds of thousands of Iranians who have been demonstrating for an end to their country's ruthless Islamic...
Venezuela’s Lonely Rebellion
Rebelling against tyranny is a lonely business these days. If the brave citizens of an oppressed country dare to resist evil, they can expect the rest of the supposedly civilized world to react with hostility or indifference. That's the case right now in Venezuela,...
Majority Leader Lott Must Go
On Thursday, December 5, 2002, Republican Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott said: "When Strom Thurmond ran for president, we voted for him. We're proud of it. And if the rest of the country had followed our lead, we wouldn't have had all these problems over all these...
A Choice Future for Students
The big winners on Election Day weren't politicians. They were students. That's because many of the politicians who won -- Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and Senator-elect James Talent of Missouri, to name just two -- are vocal supporters of school choice. Coming only a few...
Peaceniks: Warmongers for America’s Enemies
There is an increasingly vocal movement that seeks to engage America in ever longer, wider, and more costly wars--leading to thousands and perhaps millions of unnecessary deaths. This movement calls itself the "anti-war" movement. Across America and throughout the...
Capitalism is the Best Medicine
This past campaign season, Democrats such as Missouri's Jean Carnahan ran spots bashing pharmaceutical companies for advertising prescription drugs and "passing the cost on to seniors." While this argument wasn't the shot in the arm Democrats hoped-- Carnahan...
Democrats: Still in the Dark
Last month, we saw how the American people reacted to George W. Bush's first two years in the White House. "Republicans defied history by expanding their House majority in yesterday's midterm elections," reported The Washington Post on the morning after. "Combined...
Government for Sale…to Saudi Arabia?
Bush administration officials and leading U.S. senators responded very differently to the news that Princess Haifa al-Faisal, wife of the Saudi Arabian ambassador to the United States, had given many thousands of dollars to a person connected to two of the 9/11...
The Republican Daddy State
Government-financed terrorism insurance? Republicans hope it will 'stimulate' the economy. It just might, short-term -- but at the expense of making individuals ever-more dependent on government handouts; and at the expense of reinforcing the false notion that...
A United Nations World Order: Building the Capitol Building of the World
The UN is the protector of the innocent, the poor and the hungry. I know it's true because I read it in United Nation's propaganda. And, pity the unappreciated UN, with its noble mission. Because greedy nations like the United States just won't pay their "fair share,"...
The Islam Twist
"Suicide bombers twist true Islam." So goes Muslim apologists' standard song and dance. Well, let's test their theory out with a little dance of our own, one I call the "Islam Twist." Here's how it's done. First we identify an essential tenet of Islam. Then we twist...
The Corruption of the Concept Sovereignty
No more corrupt yet popular reason exists for opposing military strikes against Islamic terrorist states out to destroy America. The reasoning goes like this: these states are "sovereign" and thereby immune from preemptive attacks. "We are really appalled by any...
America’s Two Wars: Strong on Iraq, Soft on Islamic Terrorists
Has anyone noticed the difference in the way America's two wars are approached? When the subject is Iraq, the U.S. government is proactive, articulate and specific. But when it comes to militant Islam, officialdom is reactive, awkward and vague. Take the issue of...
Race to Judgment
Some call it a necessary step to heal long-standing racial inequality. Others call it a system of racial discrimination no better than apartheid in South Africa. It's affirmative action on campus -- and thanks to the Supreme Court, the controversial practice of...
Tax Holidays
You know that when politicians start talking "tax holidays" and "temporary tax cuts" that something's amiss. For years, conservatives have argued that tax cuts (especially across- the-board tax cuts which lower the marginal rate and the capital gains rate) are good...
Merck and Pfizer: Time for a Drug Binge?
In turbulent times, tastes typically turn to the tried and true. For instance, investors usually flee volatile stocks in favor of shares in the big drug companies, which keep churning out good profits, whatever the economic conditions. After all, people get sick...
Campus Diversity Fraud
Anyone familiar with the argot of modern identity politics should be able to fill the blanks in this quotation from the student newspaper at Amherst College. The speaker is explaining why the minority group he belongs to should be granted its own "diversity" seat on...
The Uncertainty Principle
"There remains an illusion among investors, especially professional money managers and analysts, that with enough digging and number-crunching, uncertainty can be conquered." Unfortunately, it can't. That's the thrust of one of the best essays on investing I have ever...
Media Bias on Media Bias
After Senator Tom Daschle created a stir by attacking Rush Limbaugh and other conservative voices in the media as somehow responsible for death threats to politicians like himself, his total absence of any evidence made him look ridiculous. However, this charge was...
Terrorist attacks in Kenya
The recent terrorist attacks in Kenya (and in Bali on Oct. 12) should be a wake-up call to all those who want to fight terrorism. Islamic terrorism will continue and worsen as long as there exists dictatorial regimes -- Iran, Iraq, Saudi Arabia, Syria, etc. -- that...
Judging Judges, Part 2
Although Republicans have regained control of the Senate, in a numerical sense, controlling the Senate in reality is a much tougher job. The ability of a minority in the Senate to filibuster things they object to means that real control may require 60 votes to shut...
Simplify the Tax Code with a Flat Tax
It's come to this: The federal government has accumulated such a huge backlog of uncollected tax debts that the IRS is thinking about hiring private bill collectors to help track down the missing funds. They're also offering deals to taxpayers who use certain tax...
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