The Enron scandal was welcomed like an unexpected Christmas present by Democrats who, together with much of the media, have tried to tie the scandal to the Bush administration. However, as more and more information has come out about Enron, it has become clear that...
The six-month anniversary of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks is upon us. Here are a half-dozen unsolved mysteries still on my mind: What really happened on United Airlines Flight 93? As the Philadelphia Daily News reported back in November, many folks in Shanksville,...
The American press seems to have contracted Black Hawk Down Syndrome, a malady in which reporters and editorialists, whose military experience consists largely of watching Hollywood war movies, project a hand-wringing fear of American military failure. These reactions...
I can't seem to get away from this subject. And it's so darn important, I'm not sure I want to. My earlier column, Back Up Blues, triggered some interesting responses. One reader inquired as to whether I had considered or tried another drive imaging product,...
There's a word for people like Health and Human Services Secretary Tommy Thompson, who got caught last week cutting in line at Reagan National Airport in Washington, D.C. The word is buttinski. Beltway buttinskis can't wait around like everybody else. Long lines are...
In a previous article, I discussed the importance of backing up your entire hard drive (not just your data) periodically as protection against computer viruses. Of course, there are other equally important reasons to back up your entire hard drive. You can have a hard...
Newsflash: The woman who helped launder Al Gore's Buddhist temple money has not served a single day in jail. And she probably never will. The hidden story of how funny money honey Maria Hsia escaped any meaningful punishment for corrupting our election system shows...
President Bush last week showed Clintonesque skill in the art of political triangulation. An alleged champion of free markets and free trade, the Bush White House last week announced plans to impose tariffs as high as 30% on steel imports to the U.S. next year. The...
It was Ronald Reagan who said that "economists are people who see something work in practice and wonder if it would work in theory." I think this is a wonderful quote. And what is working in practice -- or has been working for the last two decades -- has been the U.S....
Racial preferences, quotas and affirmative action in university admission practices have lost political and, increasingly, legal support. As a result, states such as California, Texas and Florida have implemented a substitute practice called "percentage plans" as a...
"Battered woman syndrome" -- the politically correct legal rationalization for letting cold-blooded female killers off the hook -- is now an issue in the California governor's race. Are both Democrats and Republicans really so desperate to close the gender gap that...
The spirits are up at the White House these days: everybody's busy congratulating themselves for a war well fought and deservedly won. That we deserve to win the War on Terror is beyond respectable dispute (although, evidently, not beyond dispute altogether). But did...
How to make better decisions -- big and small? Here are some tips. 1. Assume certainty is possible. You're certain the sky is blue. You're certain where you're standing or sitting right now is where you're standing or sitting. You can therefore be certain of many...
In The New York Times of October 11th , right next to the article on the latest Nobel Prize winners in economics, is another titled Expansive Role for Greenspan Brings Out Critics of Fed's Chief. The article recounts how Alan Greenspan has been called upon (and has...
A reader writes in: I respectfully disagree with your "shooting-from-the-hip" and "un-objective-like" quick analysis of the Yates killings (see Daily Dose column 2/28/02--"Why the Insanity Defense is Insane" ). I haven't had time to fully analyze the issue, but my...
The economic and foreign policies of governments -- for good or ill -- exert a dramatic influence on investors' portfolios. If that isn't obvious by now, given the policies of the past two years, it will never be so. In economic policy we've seen Fed rate hikes...
One of the conditions associated with neurosis is a weakened sense of personal identity. Nations, too, sometimes suffer from not knowing the values they live for and defend. Our rallying cry is "freedom," but what exactly does that mean? If we turn back to the...
My readers know that customer service (or customer no-service) is a running theme throughout my articles. I am constantly aghast at the number of companies who don't understand that their real business is to provide customer service. You may gain a few customers with...
To: 9/11 victims and their families From: Daniel Pipes Subject: Compensation You have been engaged in an unfortunate spat with the U.S. government over the money you deserve for your losses on 9/11, prompting anger all around. Here's a solution: Forget Washington and...
The unacknowledged principle behind the recently passed House of Representatives "campaign finance reform" bill: Established media giants (CBS, ABC, New York Times) have a constitutional right to be free of restrictions on what they air or publish. (This of course is...
Andrea Yates, charged with killing her five young children, is attempting to prove that she was insane at the time and is therefore not responsible. "Insane" in this context is defined by our legal theorists simply as "not knowing right from wrong." How can "not...
With unremitting ferocity, Arab terrorists this weekend again attacked Israelis through suicide bombing and sniper fire--brutally killing 22. Despite such carnage, despite Yasser Arafat's hollow promises to quell such violence, despite his record of flouting the terms...
Some conservatives may be grumbling about the fact that Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle single-handedly killed President Bush's plan to "stimulate" the flagging economy shortly before the Christmas recess. But they shouldn't. The president had made so many...
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