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...
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Why The Insanity Defense Is Insane
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...
Israel’s Suicide
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...
Return of the Death Tax: How Tax Rate “Reductions” Will Turn Into Tax Rate Increases
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...
Alan Greenspan and Gold: Lingering Doubts?
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A New “History” Book in the Spirit of Multiculturalism
Could it be that an important textbook is proselytizing American 12-year-olds to convert to Islam? The book in question is "Across the Centuries" (Houghton Mifflin, 2nd edition, 1999), a 558-page history that covers the millennium and a half between the fall of Rome...
Books: Destructive Generation: Second Thoughts About the Sixties by Peter Collier and David Horowitz
It is hard for those who did not witness it to grasp the depths of irrationalism and violence to which our culture—-or at least its leaders—descended in the late ’60s.
Black on White Crime Doesn’t Matter
Where violent crime takes place between blacks and whites, the cases overwhelmingly involve a black perpetrator and a white victim.
Little Caesars in the Senate
A "little Caesar," before it referred to a pizza delivery mascot, used to refer to a petty official -- or gangster -- with delusions of grandeur, the type who seeks power for the pleasure of abusing it. The Enron investigation is making it clear that the Senate is...
Patriots Taxed by Taxes
American companies are incorporating into Bermuda to lower their taxes. Some people suggest that this growing trend is unpatriotic. In reality, these companies are acting in the spirit of America's original patriots. The New York Times reported1 that these companies...
Understanding “Skategate”
Skategate, international scandal! Frankly, some of us expected a few eyebrows to raise when, during a retrospective piece on the 1972 Munich Olympics, NBC referred to the terrorists who killed 11 Israeli athletes as "commandos." But we digress. Try and follow the...
In Search of…the Right Motivation?
Many people assume that they can't accomplish their goals until they have "the right motivation." They will even seek psychological help in order to establish "the right motivation" before taking any steps towards a goal. This is a mistake -- and an amazingly common...
Diseasing of America: Addiction Treatment Out of Control by Stanton Peele
America is suffering from an epidemic of pseudo-diseases, says psychologist Stanton Peele.
Birth of Big Brother: How the Court deep-sixed the Tenth
Don't make the fatal mistake of believing government can't do anything right. No organization could expand to the point of commanding a budget in excess of two trillion dollars and be completely inept -- not even the bumbling bureaucracy in Washington. Although the...
California Republican’s Choices
When California Republicans vote in next Tuesday's primary, they will face a much less difficult choice for their party's nomination for governor than they had just a few weeks ago. Until recently, liberal Republican Richard Riordan, former mayor of Los Angeles, was...
Sept 11th: Lest we Forget
Run to the grocery store this week and buy the Feb. 25, 2002, issue of People magazine. The cover photo is a special, double-paged layout that you must see. No, it's not a Victoria's Secret model shoot. No, it's not the cast of "Friends" or "Buffy the Vampire Slayer."...
Cutting Taxes Faster Would Help Everyone
The bulk of President Bush's tax cut won't take effect until at least 2004. It is scheduled to disappear in 2011. The president may have been pushed into this deal politically last year, but it was a mistake. Fortunately, in his State of the Union address, he asked...
Building Self Confidence
It was the final hockey game of a lousy season. We had won the first three games in my senior year at Salem High School, beating Danvers, Revere, and Marblehead, but had then lost the next half dozen games, five of them by a single goal. So we badly wanted to win this...
“Do the Opposite” on Taxes
Fans of the TV show "Seinfeld" will remember an episode in which perpetual loser George Costanza announces a major shift in attitude: From that point on, he will simply "do the opposite" of whatever he would normally do in any given situation. This turns into an...
Sherlock Holmes and The Case of the Missing Surplus
Even if you’re not a fan of detective stories, you may enjoy this recently discovered Sherlock Holmes story – one that few devotees of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even knew existed. It’s called “The Case of the Missing Surplus.”
Black History Month
What is called Black History Month might more accurately be called "the sins of white people" month. The "sins" of any branch of the human race are virtually inexhaustible, but the history of blacks in America includes a lot more than the sins of white people, which...
A Second Look at Social Security’s “Trust Fund”
"When it comes to waging war on terrorism, the president has our total support," says Rep. John Spratt Jr., D-S.C., a member of the House Budget Committee. "But national security and homeland security need not come at the expense of Social Security." Rep. Spratt isn't...
Prime Mover of Business: Jack Welch
Jack Welch is arguably the most famous CEO in the world. His 20-year reign as the head of General Electric brought the company from bureaucratic behemoth to dynamic and revered powerhouse. During his tenure, GE market value grew from $13 billion to $500 billion. In...
Modern Keynesian Macroeconomics — An Assault on the Human Mind
Nearly half a century ago the popular economist John Maynard Keynes wrote, "Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are...
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