OK, so it wasn't the Lincoln/Douglas debates. But it serves as a window into the mindset of the anti-gun "advocates." On May 19, Tom Selleck appeared on the "Rosie O'Donnell Show" to plug an upcoming movie. What happened looked like an ambush. O'Donnell, a rabid,...
Next month Congress will try to resolve a dispute with the White House over federal quotas for "H-1B" visas -- a type of work permits for immigrants filling high-tech jobs. Pending legislation would expand the quotas by 10,000 to 20,000 annually for the next five...
"Almost all criminal defendants are, in fact, guilty." -- Alan Dershowitz, "The Best Defense," 1982. Assume, for a moment, that Dershowitz got it right -- that most of the guys the cops legitimately hook and book, the ones the DA prosecutes, did it. If true, this...
In perhaps the biggest outrage since the Holyfield/Lewis draw, a Michigan jury ordered the producers of the "Jenny Jones" show to pay $25 million in a wrongful death lawsuit. Three days after appearing on the show, a guest shot and killed another guest. The family of...
The art of Norman Rockwell is experiencing a revival in popularity, having been exhibited lately in many museums. A noteworthy cause of this revival has been the praisers of modern "art." That ilk of critics and college professors who had always regarded Rockwell as...
On April 30, motorists nationwide staged the "Great American Gas-Out," to protest "spiraling" gas prices. And when consumers complain, rest assured politicians will do something dumb to make them happy. It didn't take long. In California, something called the Senate...
In case the reports of massive ethnic cleansing in Kosovo were not enough to turn your stomach, seeing the bruised faces of captured American servicemen on Serbian TV ought to do the trick. In response to this outrage, President Clinton issued a stern warning to the...
This quarter the Clinton administration played the "good cop/bad cop" game. US chief trade representative, Charlene Barshefsky, was the bad cop, menacing Japanese steel producers with threats of punitive measures for "dumping". Robert Rubin played good cop, publicly...
With guns and homemade bombs, two students executed a well-planned assault on fellow students at Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado, killing 15 including themselves and one teacher) and injuring many others. Eric Harris (18) and Dylan Klebold (17),...
President Clinton is invoking morality to justify military action to stop Serbia from attacking Kosovo. But the only appropriate moral principle is the one that says Clinton has no right to send American troops on a mission that cannot succeed -- and that will result...
Marlon Brando, on the "Larry King Live" show, once used several racial and ethnic epithets. When a local news outlet rebroadcast this controversial excerpt, it muted Brando when he used the word "nigger." His lips moved, but the viewer heard no sound. The station did...
In response to the growing recognition of the systemic problems with Social Security, President Clinton has suggested strengthening the program by investing over $700 billion of projected surpluses in the stock market. His plan, however -- along with similar...
England's Tories, following the dubious example set by their US Republican counterparts, seem to have also concluded that standing on principle is politically inexpedient. The Tories recently chose to celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Margaret Thatcher's first...
Before the horrific shooting at the Littleton, Colo., high school, the media sat around like the Maytag repairman on Prozac. Monica's gone, impeachment and trial over with, the Jon-Benet Ramsey mystery dormant. Oh, sure, there's the occasional O.J. flare-up, but, for...
Six woman recently file suite against the state of Alabama over a law it enacted last year regarding vibrators and other sex toys. The law states that selling or distributing "any obscene material or any device designed or marketed as useful primarily for the...
The following statement originally appeared as an advertisement, placed by Elia Kazan in the New York Times, April 12, 1952.In the past weeks intolerable rumors about my political position have been circulating in New York and Hollywood. I want to make my stand...
Every so often, without fail, the Republicans remind me why I don't join the party. A recovering drug and alcohol abuser, living in the streets, recently told me the following story. One day, in desperate need of money, he went to the owner of a convenience store. The...
Since 1935, the United States government has been operating a program that would be illegal if run by a private citizen or company -- tarred as a fraudulent Ponzi scheme. Social Security, a scheme both impractical and immoral, is a smear on America's principles of...
I'm not sure what's more infuriating: witnessing Brazil's drawn out slow-motion crash and burn after an endless string of stupid policies over the past year; the sudden breakdown in devaluative stupidity; or enduring the lame economic analysis that ensued in the days...
America was once proudly known as the "melting pot." Its inhabitants, both native and foreign, understood at least implicitly that the essence of being American was that one was free to shed certain of his characteristics, such as race, and live by his individual...
A series of letters to the editor at Duke University's student newspaper has ignited a controversy resulting in hate mail, physical confrontations, and death threats directed at two students. Their crime? Freshmen Berin Szoka and Jay Strader expressed a preference for...
Some months back the World Bank issued a report titled "Global Economic Prospects 1998/1999". The report's foreword, written by Joseph Stiglitz, World Bank Chief Economist, is demonstration of how statists blame capitalism and free-markets for the disatrous effects of...
How can you spot Canadians? They have "Tax me!" stamped on their foreheads. Well, not true -- but it might as well be true. According to Alexandra Lopez-Pacheco, Canadians are hit with "the highest income- and profit-tax rates in the industrialized world as a...
The stated purpose the United Alternative initiative -- spawned by Preston Manning, leader of Reform Party of Canada -- is to create a new party to defeat the Liberals in the next election. Unfortunately, Manning's approach forebodes failure. His strategy involves...
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