On Friday (June 29, 2001), ABC news correspondent John Stossel aired a hard-hitting report challenging the environmentalist movement and suggesting that "tampering with nature" makes human life better -- that such "unnatural" phenomena as clean water, heated homes and...
Ever since I started trading and investing in the 1970s I have looked at stock charts every day. I am entirely aware of -- and respectful of -- the empirical and theoretical arguments against the predictive value of charting. And yet, at the same time, I remain to...
Let us, for a moment, take the sex-education pushers at their word: If you teach a child how to use a condom, you're promoting safety -- not usage.That's what a new review of sex-ed curricula claims. "The overwhelming weight of evidence shows that sex education that...
Our ruined EP-3 surveillance plane is still parked on that Chinese runway, months after it was forced down and its crew taken hostage. At least six Chinese-American scholars have been jailed in China on groundless spying charges; their families have not been allowed...
Whatever happened to the presumption of innocence? California Attorney General Bill Lockyer apparently missed that lesson in law school. As Californians face rolling blackouts in the grip of their so-called energy crisis, the state's top politicians busy themselves...
Now that President George W. Bush and California Governor Gray Davis have had their meeting over the electricity crisis in the golden state, how much closer are they to producing a solution? Not one millimeter closer. Nor was there any reason to expect that they would...
We have belatedly come to appreciate "the greatest generation" that fought and died in World War II to preserve the freedom that Americans enjoy today. But the disappearance of history from our schools, and its virtual disappearance as a requirement for graduation...
What should be the characteristics of laws in a free society? Let's think about baseball rules (laws) as a means to approach this question. Some players, through no fault of their own, hit fewer home runs than others. In order to create baseball justice, how about a...
Congressmen, presidents and Supreme Court justices take an oath of office swearing to uphold and defend the U.S. Constitution. As if the Constitution itself isn't clear about what they must do, in Federalist Paper No. 45, James Madison, the acknowledged father of the...
With the arrival of summer's sweltering heat, California's electricity demand will rise as people engage in the perfectly natural act of manipulating the environment, as through air-conditioning, to make life better. But electricity supply will not be able to rise the...
What to make of this completely crazed market? It's simple (but that doesn't make it any more bearable): we're right on a major cusp. Four critical indices -- the NASDAQ Composite, the Russell 2000, the Wilshire Total Market Value Index, and the S&P 500, are all...
The obvious makes headlines in California. Maybe this shows that a sense of reality or common sense is not something that can be taken for granted among Californians. A recent headline stretching across the top of the front page announced that "Population dwarfs...
Republicans have never been big fans of reforming the health insurance system, nor have many of them ever taken the time to learn much about it. Of course, that won't be a surprise to anyone who has watched Republicans pass one bad piece of health care legislation...
Every expression that appeals to man's highest ideals is a source of inspiration. It is the quick route that bridges a man's emotions to his thoughts and reveals his innermost soul through his responses. The importance of inspiration for human life is based on the...
While most Americans celebrated their blessings, both material and spiritual, on Thanksgiving last year, the anti-consumer movement united to celebrate Buy Nothing Day. They called for a boycott of shopping, buying . . . indeed, consumption itself. Adbusters, an...
A mature Harry Potter has traveled through the Outerland, to the banks of the Hogwash. From here he can see his final destination: the Ministry of the Village. The Villages' inhabitants, known as Republocrats, are faceless mutations of an old two-party political...
New polls are showing increased support for banning the use of cell phones while driving. Here we go again. I have a better idea: why don't we simply hold people accountable for bad driving? If you drive poorly, then you should be held accountable whether you are...
Reminiscent of the "crony capitalism" that contributed to the 1997 Asian financial crisis, the South Korean government has recently bailed out several financially strapped chaebols, violating its own bailout agreement with the International Monetary Fund. But the...
A funny thing is happening in the debate over a missile defense. The president is getting more cooperation from Russia than from liberals in Congress. Indeed, a number of nations that for years pleaded with the United States to retain the Anti-Ballistic Missile (ABM)...
To hear the American Public Transportation Association folks tout their latest report on ridership, you half expect to see shells of abandoned cars rotting on every street corner. Americans have spurned their cars in favor of mass transit, the APTA tells us. Mass...
Beside Bill Gates, what does Microsoft have that contributes to their success? The authors spent a couple of years trying to find out. Their conclusions: seven complementary strategies and a small set of basic principals of operation. First, find smart people who know...
The other day, I became a victim of a broadband crime that apparently is becoming more and more common. Allow me to explain. I have three static IP addresses on my home network. I am not without concern for security -- I run a firewall on each of my computers, I...
Q: Should a free country trade with people who live under a dictatorship (e.g. China, Cuba)? And, if not, should the government of the free country restrict such trade with dictatorships? A: If you enjoy living in a free country, then you benefit from that freedom...
The red-legged frog is only the latest of many supposedly endangered species whose habitats may be kept off-limits to human beings, even if that means stopping the building of much-needed housing. We have grown so used to having the interests of millions of human...
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