In his inaugural address, President George W. Bush issued a call to reinvigorate citizenship: "We are bound by ideals that move us beyond our backgrounds, lift us above our interests, and teach us what it means to be citizens. Every child must be taught these...
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Jesse Jackson’s “Civil” Rights Protection Racket
Jesse Jackson is a fraud, and so is his "civil rights" cause. It has come to light that the pious reverend has a mistress and an illegitimate 2-year-old daughter. This came as a shock to his wife and legitimate children, but it is the least of the reverend's...
Republicans Genuflect to Karl Marx
Few Americans realize it, but the Democratic Party adheres to the basic premise of Marxist political parties. The defining characteristic of a Marxist party is class warfare. The demonized class is "the rich," whether the rich are capitalists, pharmaceutical...
The Anti-Culture of the New Left Spawns Violence
What is it about guns that causes liberals to go berserk and blame inanimate objects for human behavior? Are liberals that much more emotional and less rational than the rest of us, or have liberals made guns the scapegoat for the consequences of liberal policies that...
Bush Should Act Immediately to Protect Americans From The ICC’s Anti-American “World Court”
In an unexpected break with long-standing U.S. policy, President Clinton recently ordered an administration official to sign a treaty that would create an International Criminal Court. This despite what he calls "significant flaws" in the document that threaten the...
The Supreme Court’s Violations of Individual Rights (The Checks Don’t Balance Anymore!)
The Founding Fathers entrusted the Supreme Court with the protection of the rights enunciated in the Declaration of Independence and guaranteed by the Constitution. By this standard, the proper yardstick for evaluating Supreme Court rulings is their impact on...
Some Probing Questions About Bush Cabinet Nominee Elaine Chao
In this poisonous era of identity politics, it is impossible to raise questions about a prominent minority figure without being branded a racist. But since I am an Asian-American, and the subject of my scrutiny is an Asian-American, perhaps we can put aside the race...
Look Who Supports Americorps
President Clinton triumphs again. His relentless propaganda machine, in the last throes of its legacy-building frenzy, sent out a White House press release this week heralding the success of AmeriCorps. Created in 1993, this big-government boondoggle pays young people...
Ashcroft is the Solution to the Rampant Corruption of the Justice Department
With so much controversy swirling around the nomination of former Senator John Ashcroft to be attorney general, we need to look beyond the rhetoric and the spin to the actual history of Ashcroft -- and of his critics. When John Ashcroft was in the Senate, he voted to...
Technology vs. Humanity
read a bumpersticker today which said: "It has become appallingly clear that our technology has surpassed our humanity." This expression misses a crucial point. Our technology is in fact a consequence of our humanity. Technology comes about only because of the human,...
Pardon Michael Milkin: Victim of The Crime of Success
President Clinton should pardon Michael Milken, said Yaron Brook, the executive director of the Ayn Rand Institute."It would be an act of justice--one of the few of the Clinton administration--if Clinton pardoned the man truly responsible for the economic boom of the...
The Clinton “Legacy”
It is perhaps fitting that Bill Clinton has been spending the last days of his presidency out on the road, in the manner of old washed-up entertainers who make endless "farewell" appearances, trying to cling to the fading limelight as long as possible. He is going out...
The Virtues of “Sweatshops”
This Christmas season witnessed no shortage of protesters who were outraged at the thought of all the nice gifts exchanged over the holiday season having been manufactured in so-called "sweatshops". In an act of monumental hubris, middle-class Harvard students, rich...
Government Cruelty: The Excess Burdens of Taxation
George Bush's secretary of labor nominee, Linda Chavez, withdrew her nomination under charges of hiring a worker and not paying minimum wages plus applicable taxes. This was just character assassination by those who didn't want to see her confirmed because of her...
George Bush Misses the Point on Cutting Taxes
George Bush looks like he'll try to stick to his promise about cutting income tax rates, but his team's recent justifications, while politically expedient, are obscuring the real case for tax cuts. Given that the U.S. economy is showing signs of slowing, the Bush team...
America’s Real Constitutional Crisis
Many say that the recent presidential election debacle verged on a constitutional crisis. Looking back at last year's events, let's apply some perspective. Take a moment and examine what the real crisis is. Americans are forced to pay for an ever-expanding welfare...
The “Control Freak” Package Deal
You often hear the phrase "control freak" used in a negative sense. I have even used it myself to describe authoritarian personalities. Authoritarian personalities are people who place a desire to be "right" (that is, seen as right) above the desire to know what is...
Privacy Applies To Private Affairs, And Not To The Government Actions: Reviving the Right to Know
Whatever else may be said about the Clinton era, the past eight years have not been kind to those who believe the public's business should be conducted in public. Restoring an appreciation in the nation's capital for the people's right to know should be a top priority...
Clinton’s 29,000 Commandments
With just a week left before the new president takes office, our government is engaged in a frenzy of lawmaking.No, Congress has not convened to consider legislation, and no, your elected representatives will not decide whether these new federal rules go into effect....
The Destruction of Martin Luther King’s Dream of a Colorblind Society
As we commemorate King’s birth it is depressing to note how far America has deviated from the “dream.:
America’s Surplus Crisis
The federal surplus for the close of fiscal year 2000 was nearly double the surplus for the prior year. This is a problem! A massive, growing federal surplus is a signal that the government is taking too much of our money.Back in the days of the federal deficit, we...
Protecting Us Out of Our Rights
Worrying about bacteria, New Jersey banned restaurants from serving eggs sunny side up. The ban has since been lifted. Some New Jersey localities have a ban on people pumping their own gasoline. Policemen issue citations for driving without a seatbelt. By law, new...
What America Owes Me
O.J. Simpson lawyer Johnnie Cochran and friends want to file a big-bucks, class-action lawsuit seeking reparations for slavery. On what legal grounds, against whom, on behalf of whom, and in which court? The attorneys haven't figured out those pesky details yet. But...
Microsoft and the Mythology of Anti-trust
The biggest question about anti-trust law is whether there really is any such thing. There are anti-trust theories and anti-trust rhetoric, as well as judicial pronouncements on anti-trust. But there is very little that could be called law in the full sense of rules...
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