England's Tories, following the dubious example set by their US Republican counterparts, seem to have also concluded that standing on principle is politically inexpedient. The Tories recently chose to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's first...
POLITICS
The basic and crucial political issue of our age is: capitalism versus socialism, or freedom versus statism. For decades, this issue has been silenced, suppressed, evaded, and hidden under the foggy, undefined rubber-terms of “conservatism” and “liberalism” which had lost their original meaning and could be stretched to mean all things to all men. – AYN RAND
Are Cops Killing Blacks?
Before the horrific shooting at the Littleton, Colo., high school, the media sat around like the Maytag repairman on Prozac. Monica's gone, impeachment and trial over with, the Jon-Benet Ramsey mystery dormant. Oh, sure, there's the occasional O.J. flare-up, but, for...
The Government’s Assault on Sexual Pleasure
Six woman recently file suite against the state of Alabama over a law it enacted last year regarding vibrators and other sex toys. The law states that selling or distributing "any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the...
A Statement: Communism, Free-Speech, and “Naming Names”
The following statement originally appeared as an advertisement, placed by Elia Kazan in the New York Times, April 12, 1952.In the past weeks intolerable rumors about my political position have been circulating in New York and Hollywood. I want to make my stand...
Minimum Wage: Yet Another Republican Retreat
Every so often, without fail, the Republicans remind me why I don't join the party. A recovering drug and alcohol abuser, living in the streets, recently told me the following story. One day, in desperate need of money, he went to the owner of a convenience store. The...
End the Fraudulent Social Security Program Now
Since 1935, the United States government has been operating a program that would be illegal if run by a private citizen or company -- tarred as a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. Social Security, a scheme both impractical and immoral, is a smear on America's principles of...
The IMF in Brazil: The Emperor Has No Clothes!
I'm not sure what's more infuriating: witnessing Brazil's drawn out slow-motion crash and burn after an endless string of stupid policies over the past year; the sudden breakdown in devaluative stupidity; or enduring the lame economic analysis that ensued in the days...
The Tragic Meltdown of the American “Melting Pot”
America was once proudly known as the "melting pot." Its inhabitants, both native and foreign, understood at least implicitly that the essence of being American was that one was free to shed certain of his characteristics, such as race, and live by his individual...
Duke Freshman Lives Threatened for Defending Western Civilization
A series of letters to the editor at Duke University's student newspaper has ignited a controversy resulting in hate mail, physical confrontations, and death threats directed at two students. Their crime? Freshmen Berin Szoka and Jay Strader expressed a preference for...
Bureaucracy Goes Global: The World Bank vs Capitalism
Some months back the World Bank issued a report titled "Global Economic Prospects 1998/1999". The report's foreword, written by Joseph Stiglitz, World Bank Chief Economist, is demonstration of how statists blame capitalism and free-markets for the disatrous effects of...
Slavery By Taxation
How can you spot Canadians? They have "Tax me!" stamped on their foreheads. Well, not true -- but it might as well be true. According to Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco, Canadians are hit with "the highest income- and profit-tax rates in the industrialized world as a...
Collectivism by Default in Canada: The Right Adopts Leftist Principles
The stated purpose the United Alternative initiative -- spawned by Preston Manning, leader of Reform Party of Canada -- is to create a new party to defeat the Liberals in the next election. Unfortunately, Manning's approach forebodes failure. His strategy involves...
Will the Real Alan Greenspan Please Stand Up?
"An almost hysterical antagonism toward the gold standard is one issue which unites statists of all persuasions. They seem to sense, perhaps more clearly and subtly than many consistent defenders of laissez-faire, that gold and economic freedom are inseparable, that...
Elia Kazan: Moral Hero
Some people are condemning the decision to give an honorary Oscar to film director Elia Kazan. They claim that because Kazan, a former member of the Communist Party, testified against fellow party -- members before the House Un-American Activities Committee, he does...
The Black Listing of Elia Kazan
When the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced it would honor director Elia Kazan with a Lifetime Achievement Award, Hollywood liberal-leftists objected. The "Committee Against Silence" (CAS), a group of former "blacklisted" writers, has planned a...
Is President Bill Clinton a Rapist?
"Bimbo Eruptions." That's what Republication strategist Mary Matalin, during the 1992 presidential campaign, called allegations of extramarital affairs against candidate Bill Clinton. But, unfortunately for the president, Juanita Broaddrick is nobody's bimbo. In an...
The Clinton Administration’s new effort to put doctors in jail
Secretary of Health and Human Services Donna Shalala, Attorney General Janet Reno and FBI Director Louis Freeh have been asked by Clinton to travel the country, in cooperation with the American Association of Retired Persons -- at government expense which may or may...
Bad Ideas Equal Boring Sex
A recently released University of Chicago survey suggests that sex is among the last things on the minds of too many American couples. The study concluded that 31 percent of men and 43 percent of women regularly have no interest in sex--with boredom ranking as the...
The “Sensitive” Road to Censorship
During the O.J. Simpson criminal trial, people of that court replaced saying the word "nigger"(as used by former LA police detective Mark Fuhrman) with "the 'N'-word." Last year, Merriam-Webster was asked by certain people to omit the said racial epithet from their...
A Double Standard of Hypocrisy: Feminism’s Love Affair with President Clinton
Why have certain feminists refused to demand Bill Clinton's resignation? For in his sexual affair with Monica Lewinsky, he committed an act of "sexual harassment" that these feminists eagerly apply to other violators of it, whose resignation or termination from their...
Public Education’s Escape Through ADD and Ritalin
Nearby certain Long Island public schools there are street signs that read: "Drug Free School Zone." Yet the educators of these schools are pushing a drug called Ritalin on students they diagnose with "Attention Deficit Disorder" (ADD).Regarding this issue, educators...
A Malcolm X postage stamp? What about George Wallace?
Former Alabama Governor and segregationist George Wallace on a postage stamp? You laugh. The post office's criteria for honoring individuals, however, provides little guidance. The stamps should "feature American or American-related subjects" and display "only events...
Environmentalism, Eco-Terrorism and Endangered Species
An underground environmental group called Earth Liberation Front (ELF) claimed responsibility for incinerating four ski lifts (October 1998) and three buildings worth 12 $million at Vail, Colorado. Vail's plans to expand its ski area apparently clashed with...
How Finance Minister Paul Martin denies shareholder rights
It's official. Finance Minister Paul Martin told the four big banks he won't permit them to merge. Why not? The proposed mergers would allegedly give the resulting two banks "unacceptable" powers that would not serve "public interest."The ominous implication is that...
Police Brutality and “The Great White Bigot”
"Larry, How do you feel about Tyisha Miller?" asked the radio critic during our interview. "Who?" I said. Wrong answer. "What do you mean, who?" she said. "Everyone's talking about it." "Well," I said, "I've been on vacation. I've heard about her, but I don't know...
The Religious Left
The political-left properly condemns the political-right for lobbying government to force its religious values on others. However, the political left, despite that many of its proponents don't explicitly preach or practice religion (some are atheists), is itself...
Hatred of Ability Masked as Concern for the Poor
Capitalism -- to the extent that it has existed -- has demonstrated to be phenomenal at raising people's standard of living in terms of food production, housing, transportation, communication, medicine, exciting careers opportunities, leisure time, recreation,...
Feeding fuel to a fire: Clinton’s attempt to fight racism by enshrining it
On June 14, 1997, after the Rodney King trial, the Los Angeles riots, the O.J. Simpson trial, and the abolishment of affirmative action policies at certain universities in California, Bill Clinton announced "One America in the 21st Century: The President's Initiative...
Microsoft and Creativity
I frequently read condemnations of Microsoft. It would be futile to put myself in the position of the Simpson prosecution, lending credibility to fantasies by treating them seriously. But some accusations have a surface plausibility, particularly to readers not versed...
Classic Legalese from Alan Dershowitz: Attack, Demean, Mischaracterize
It was vintage Alan Dershowitz, the attorney and race card player extraordinaire. Appearing as an anti-impeachment panelist before the House Judiciary Committee, Dershowitz accused Georgia conservative Republican Rep. Bob Barr of "racism," "bigotry" and...
Reason vs. Faith: Pope Claims to Be a Supporter of Reason, but Is Actually Its Arch-enemy
In today's industrial civilization, people recognize the difference between the secular and the religious. Even those who believe in the Bible, for example, would generally not proclaim Scripture to be science -- any more than those who faithfully read their...
Y2K Resources: Will the world end on January 1, 2000?
Many people say that a disaster of unprecedented proportions faces mankind on January 1st, 2000. Some say this is God's plan to destroy civilization and prepare for the second coming of Christ. Others say that we must give up our political freedom in order to address...
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