POLITICS

You can't go changing regimes just because you don't like them! So claims a caller on a talk radio show, regarding whether or not President Bush should ever topple Saddam Hussein. This claim is wrong. It's based on numerous faulty premises, such as: Faulty Premise #...

It's turning into another long, hot summer for Iran's rulers. Riots are bubbling up throughout the Middle Eastern nation, just as they have in past summers, and the list of reasons are as long as the beards of the old men who govern the country: Economic stagnation....

Here we are, officially leaving the confines of the Anti-Ballistic Missile Treaty, and hardly a peep can be heard from the arms-control crowd. Excuse me, but where's the outrage? For years, they warned us not to withdraw. They told us how the treaty formed the...

Thousands of aggrieved activists are headed to Washington, D.C., later this week for the "Millions for Reparations" march. The theme is: "They Owe Us." "Us" means black Americans who allegedly endure lasting psychological and economic suffering as a result of their...

Q:I have a friend, Mary, who was nearly sexually molested by a 30-year-old adult when she was about 15 years old (she convinced him to stop). She never told anyone about it until she shared her secret with me about 6 months ago. Mary is now 35 years old. The accused...

Washington cocktail-party conversations about China typically go something like this: A person from the China-as-a-peer-competitor school of thought says "I think China, with its growing economy, growing military, and young, nationalistic population, will only...

Every day, we hear something about markets. Your 6 o'clock news anchor might say, "The market had a bad day." Last year, Federal Reserve Bank Chairman Alan Greenspan talked about the market's irrational exuberance. I guess now he'd say the market has irrational...

No bold new ideas have been heard so far, or are likely to be heard, at the president's "economic summit" today in Texas. Bold new ideas, it is becoming increasingly obvious, are not Bush's style. In place of new ideas, the summit offers a lot of very conventional...

According to Fox News: "Critics say that PBS has compromised its mission over the last 30 years, squandering taxpayer dollars with little thought to viewer accountability and becoming slaves to corporate underwriters and political correctness. And while some charge...

Q: If a man tells a woman that he loves her but then is always concerned about other people's feelings and not about hers, does he really love her? For example: He lives far away from his girlfriend. He has only two days to spend with her, when visiting, but he stays...

Just when you think you know somebody, he goes and gets himself detained by the FBI for questioning in connection with alleged ties to the terrorist network of Osama bin Laden. So, whom do you stand by: your country or an individual who you've known all your life --...

When our book, "Dow 36,000," was published in September 1999, the Dow Jones Industrial Average stood at 10318. The Dow closed in the middle of last week at 8736. What went wrong? Actually, nothing. Despite its flamboyant title, "Dow 36,000" was a book of sober...

At the same time that John Walker Lindh is allowed to cop a plea, getting who knows how few years in prison, the media and a segment of the public are demanding to get the heads on a platter (the phrase actually used) of a number of CEOs of business firms who have yet...

Dr. Patrick Chavis is dead. Will the liberal politicians and gullible media who made him a poster boy for government-imposed affirmative action shed a single tear, or will they continue to ignore what a shameful tragedy his life became? According to a Los Angeles...