Since when did being a journalist mean forgetting your responsibilities as a human being? If you think I'm being too harsh on today's press, consider the coverage of the Beltway Sniper attacks. It goes beyond just publishing leaked information about messages left by...
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The Other Beltway Shooter
He struck during morning rush hour. He used an AK-47 rifle. He killed two people and wounded three outside the CIA headquarters in Langley, Va. Then, he slipped out of the country and eluded authorities for four, long years. He was the other Beltway shooting spree...
It’s Time To Assign the Blame for the Bear Market–Mr. Greenspan
Friday marked the 1001st day since the Dow Jones Industrial Average touched its all-time high at 11908.50 on Jan. 14, 2000. 1,001 days was the precise duration of the bear market that followed the peak of Sept. 7, 1929 -- which included the Great Crash and ushered in...
2002 Nobel Prize in Economic Sciences
Here's what I said in last year's November column: "George Mason University economists are leaders in economic thinking. They include scholars such as Nobel Laureate James Buchanan, who along with his colleague Gordon Tullock, pioneered the field in economics known as...
Lessons From Bali: Facing Up To Evil
Perhaps the massive bomb blast on the Indonesian island of Bali will cause some second thoughts -- or perhaps first thoughts -- by those who blamed the United States for having provoked the September 11th attacks by its actions and policies in the Middle East. Very...
Another United Nations Sham: Libyan leader Colonel Gadaffi to Head the U.N. Human Rights Commission
Hollywood loves using the "it takes a thief to catch a thief" plot in its movies. But even the most creative scriptwriter couldn't top the real-life plot twist the U.N. Commission on Human Rights will have concocted when Libya becomes its chairman. That's right --...
One-Uppers vs. Survival
Among the many commemorations of the September 11th anniversary, the one at Berkeley was unique. The American flag was banned because it might offend people from other countries. "The Star Spangled Banner" was banned because it was considered too militaristic, while...
Reason and Justice vs. Faith and Humility: Turn the Other Cheek?
When I was a youngster at St. Mark's parochial school in Buffalo, New York, I was not one of those kids on the top of the physical pecking order and occasionally, I got into the scrapes that come with such status. I remember once after mounting a rather ineffective...
Thinking it Alone: U.S. Must Reject the Evil Doctrine of “Multilateralism”
In his latest Iraq speech President Bush declared that Saddam Hussein poses an immediate threat to America, that waiting any longer to deal with him is "the riskiest of all options," that "regime change in Iraq is the only certain means of removing a great danger to...
Business Model Bloopers and Blunders
You can talk about all of the things impacting our economy - government regulation, terrorism, the Fed's determination in 2000 to convert a virtuous cycle into a vicious cycle - but I think that there is another problem facing our economy: flawed business models....
How your Tax Money Supports Amiri Baraka’s Hatred America
Amiri Baraka hates America. Yet, in the land of the free that he despises so deeply, this black nationalist writer has had no trouble finding fellow Americans to show him love. At the top of Amiri Baraka's donor list: The American taxpayer. In the 1960s, Baraka (then...
Race and IQ, Part 3
I happened to run into Charles Murray in Dulles International Airport while he and Richard Herrnstein were writing "The Bell Curve." When I asked him what he was working on and he summarized what he was writing, he could tell that I was concerned about him, so I told...
Whacking Google: The Church of Scientology vs. Search Engines
Several decades ago, mathematician Edward Kasner conceived a number so large, it would exceed the total number of elementary particles in the known universe, with room to spare. He asked his nine-year-old nephew to name this new number, a one followed by one hundred...
Re-Authorization of Welfare Reform: Will the Moochers Strike Back?
It’s both amusing and satisfying to re-read the hand-wringing that greeted the 1996 welfare-reform law.
Democratic Political Propaganda: Rhetoric vs. Reality
Imagine... ...a recent graphic ad on the Republican.com website pictures smiling Democratic leaders Tom Daschle and Richard Gephardt shoving a young girl with pigtails in front of a train with the words ‘public education' written on its side. Although Democrats called...
Nobel Peace Prize Should Go To Those Who Really Support Peace
The Nobel Peace Prize was just awarded to Jimmy Carter. Although Carter's efforts to convince Egypt to recognize Israel's right to exist was a genuine achievement, he has otherwise continuously betrayed the principles on which peace depends. For many years Carter,...
Lawmakers Who Love Lawbreakers
Democrat Sen. Bob Torricelli of New Jersey is not through yet. While media pundits are busy writing his obituary, the Torch and his colleagues continue to make America safe for lawbreakers. On Sept. 23, Torricelli and Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D.,...
Race and IQ, Part 2
Professor John McWhorter, a black faculty member at the University of California at Berkeley, has made a suggestion that is explosive in itself and directly the opposite of what is being said by those who are seeking to promote lower college admissions standards for...
The Battle of Environmentalists versus the US Military
As America's military deploys troops, armor, planes and ordinance to bases in the Middle East surrounding Iraq, they will do so after years of fending off another kind of attack, one by the massed forces of environmental organizations that have done everything in...
Coloring the Sniper News: The Angry White Male Theory
MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Md. -- Some profiling experts are convinced that the roving sniper who has terrorized my neighborhood and surrounding communities is a white male. -- Dr. Michael Welner, a forensic psychiatrist at New York University Medical Center, described the...
The Houdini Award for Judicial Curruption
You expect a corrupt politician to do corrupt things, so when Senator Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., withdrew as a candidate for re-election after ethics charges led to his falling behind in the polls, that was hardly surprising. Nor was it particularly surprising that...
Why Stocks Don’t Stink
"My message is as follows: stocks stink and will continue to do so until they're priced appropriately, probably somewhere around Dow 5000, S&P 650, or Nasdaq God knows where." That's what Bill Gross, the usually mild-mannered managing director of Pacific...
The Real Accounting Problem in America
Is it me, or have recent business stories begun to resemble episodes of VH-1's "Behind the Music"? Think about it: Executives cook the books and make millions. They live fast and high on the company dime, buying items such as $6,000 shower curtains and African...
Dangerous Restraint
President George W. Bush's speech on Iraq in effect reiterated what Edmund Burke said more than two centuries ago: "There is no safety for honest men except by believing all possible evil of evil men." Today, in a nuclear age, those words apply more strongly than...
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