Part of the reason U.S. military leaders give away too much is naiveté, not disloyalty. Part of the explanation for such actions is this romantic sense of wanting to give China something in the hopes of developing a friendship. People do really dumb things.
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Alan Greenspan: Puppet or Puppet Master?
Alan Greenspan's about-face on interest rates and tax cuts might have you wondering if he is simply reacting to his new Commander-in-Chief, or if he is seeing how much he can manipulate the economy. Under Clinton, he was an outspoken opponent of tax cuts--which was...
Bush Should Establish Missile Defense as a National Priority
President Bush should explain to Americans, Congress, and the world why a national missile defense system is urgently needed and how a global missile defense system will help to ensure that no country is held hostage by the threat of attack by missiles carrying...
Criminalizing Sex Ed
For decades, Planned Parenthood has been proselytizing that sex education is the answer to unwanted pregnancies and population control. The crusaders first breached the high schools, then poured into the elementary schools. Today, toddlers are taught the mechanics of...
Mel Reynolds and Bill Clinton: Bosom Buddies (The Scoop on the Clinton Pardons)
Johnny-come-lately liberals are in an uproar over former President Clinton's peddling of White House pardons: Clinton has no shame! He'll do anything for a quick buck! He disgraced the highest office in the land! This is news? Lost in the hoopla is Clinton's repugnant...
War: The Fruit of the Middle East ‘Peace Process’
Late in September 2000, the Palestinian Authority kicked off a campaign of organized violence meant to hasten the final "liberation" of Israel from the Jews. The fighting began with mobs throwing rocks and firebombs at Jewish civilians and vehicles. Soon it escalated...
Microsoft Assault is an Inept Stab at “Industrial Policy”
The federal government's persecution of Microsoft is a travesty--the worst combination of third-rate economics and special- interest politics. Last year's ruling against the company may be a victory for envy-driven bureaucrats at the U.S. Justice Department, but it...
The Politics of Evasion
There was a moment in the past weeks' confirmation hearings that reveals the root of what's wrong with our government. It was not in the most contentious or well-publicized hearing -- and indeed, it was a case where Senate Democrats, Senate Republicans and the new...
Race and the New Century
W.E.B. DUBOIS once said that the problem of the 20th century world was going to be the problem of the color line. Like many ringing predictions, it missed the mark by a wide margin. The biggest atrocity of [last] century against any people -- the Holocaust -- involved...
President William Jefferson Clinton: Good-bye, Good Riddance
"NOTHING in his life," one character in Macbeth says of another, "became him like the leaving it." It would have been nice to say of Bill Clinton that nothing in his presidency became him like the leaving it. Those of us who spent the last eight years amazed by the...
America’s Egalitarian Army
Most people know by now that morale in the U.S. armed forces has dropped to a level not seen since the days of the Carter administration. Not to worry, say Army officials, we have a quick fix we're implementing later this year--allowing our troops to wear the black...
What is a Classical Education?
Classical education depends on a three-part process of training the mind. The early years of school are spent in absorbing facts, systematically laying the foundations for advanced study. In the middle grades, students learn to think through arguments. In the high...
Basic Economics
One of the reasons for the confusion surrounding so many economic issues -- such as the current electricity crisis in California -- is an underlying confusion about what economics itself is all about. To many people, economics is about money. But economies and...
The Cause of the California Power Blackouts
Californians are not only seeing rolling blackouts, they are seeing chickens coming home to roost. They are learning the most elementary facts the hard way. Fact number one: You cannot go on obstructing the building of electric power generating plants for years on end...
Gun Shows Under Fire: Bureaucrats Attempt To Ban Gun Shows
Here's the thing about the Bill of Rights: It isn't an a la carte menu. You can't just pick and choose. But that's exactly what public officials in my neighborhood want to do in their brazenly unconstitutional attempt to ban gun shows. The Montgomery County (Md.)...
America, The Republic
The recent presidential election revealed a serious misconception about the nature of America's government.Contrary to what so many said, including Al Gore, who claimed that "What is at stake here is the integrity of our democracy, making sure that the will of the...
American Citizenship For Sale?
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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