POLITICS

Over the last couple of weeks I've seen financiers and economists give a lot of misguided advice about what people need to do to help the nation and themselves overcome the terrorist attacks on America. I'm a very patriotic person myself, I don't just wave flags on...

In northeast Alaska, above the Arctic Circle, the snow seems to cover far more than the land. It's so thick and deep and cold and hard that you smell next to nothing and you hear even less. Given that part of the state sees no daylight for two months of every year,...

The next time you hear someone blame our intelligence community for the attacks, remember how many attacks they *did* stop. Then think about the fact that even given the best intelligence in the world, if you stop the terrorists time and time and time again and foil...

America now joins ancient Greece and Rome as civilized peoples threatened not by competitors over territory or trade, but by barbarians whose only goal is our destruction. But rather than compare our situation to their unfortunate outcomes, I would like to draw a...

Thanks to President Bush's strong leadership, America and its allies are preparing to wage a relentless war on terrorism. This means settling the score with the thugs who organized the Sept. 11 attacks and forcing changes to the rogue regimes that harbor terrorists...

Congressional liberals seem to have come down with a bad case of "buyer's remorse." They're using the prospect of a smaller-than-expected budget surplus to say they wish they could take back a portion of President Bush's tax cut. But if they understood how tax cuts...

This was George Bush's warning to the international terrorists and their sponsors: "The United States will be firm with terrorists. We will not make concessions.... If we find states supplying money, weapons, training, identification, documents, travel, or safe haven...

This is the story of the boy who cried "Muslim." It's a story about the obscene exploitation of tragedy, the abuse of public sympathy, and the trashing of truth and honor under the guise of promoting tolerance. But this is no fable. It's a true-life, hoax-crime caper:...

Dear Pacifists, I address you in the plural as protocol requires, since all humane action is collective. Listen carefully: you are being seriously deluded. The one who bids for your hero-worship is in fact your worst enemy. You say you love everyone, that the world...

Of the five countries described below, can you identify the one(s) excluded from the US-led coalition in the war on terrorism? Country A is free and democratic, a steadfast ally of the United States. Its citizens know what it means to be victimized by terrorism, and...

Since Reuters forbids their journalists to use "terrorist" in their reports (couldn't we construe the attackers as simply irate airline customers?) and CBS, citing allegiance to "neutrality", is mandating the T word hold hands with "alleged" or some other like...

Complaints about prescription drug prices have escalated in recent months. Critics contend drugs cost too much and point to drug company profits as the reason why. They also claim the pharmaceutical industry is our nation's most profitable, and that price controls...

True or false: America is a deeply religious country that owes all its greatness to Christianity? The answer is: false. Fact is, America is not a religious country, not a Christian country, at all. Americans do not understand this--but the terrorists who struck us on...

Each semester, I spend a few minutes explaining to my students, both graduate and undergraduate, the first and second laws of thermodynamics. Why? Mother Nature permits us to do many things, but she prohibits the construction of machines of the first and second kinds....