On May 18, 1998, the U.S. Justice Department, 20 states and Washington, D.C., formally filed antitrust lawsuits against Microsoft. During a press conference, U.S. Assistant Attorney General Joel Klein and several state attorney generals painted Microsoft as an enemy...
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G8 and J18: The Carnivals Against Capitalism
June 18th, 1999 was to be a momentous day for global economic progress. It marked the start of the annual "G8" economic summit in Germany. The leaders of the world's seven wealthiest industrialized countries, plus Russia, gathered to propose inventive solutions to the...
Camille Cosby’s Carelessness
Camille Cosby, the day after the conviction of the man accused of murdering her son, wrote an astonishing article published in "USA Today." It begins, "I believe America taught our son's killer to hate African-Americans. After Mikhail Markhasev killed Ennis Williams...
The Republicans Fail Freedom Again
During the debates over the recently defeated McCain tobacco bill, Republicans again demonstrated why they're incompetent to defend freedom. ...to allegedly "protect children," government was to intensify its violation of individual rights by dictating the price of...
Bury the “Extremism” Smear at Barry Goldwater’s Funeral
Barry Goldwater, in his 1964 speech accepting the Republican Party's nomination to run for president, responded to repeated accusations of "extremism" as follows: "I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that...
Charlton “Moses” Heston Mugged
Unleash the Trash! When the National Rifle Association elected actor Charlton Heston president, the anti-gun crowd pulled out the long knives quicker than you could say "Ken Starr." Time magazine weighed in with the cover story on guns. The cover? A large cartoon gun,...
National Organization for Women, R.I.P.
The National Organization for Women, RIP.This organization, AWOL on Paula Jones/Kathleen Willey/Monica Lewinsky/Dolly Kyle Browning, introduces a new and worthy target: Leonardo DiCaprio. That's right, the star of "Titanic." That Leonardo DiCaprio. See, a movie studio...
Racial Insensitivy
Which is Worse? "(Blacks) may not have some of the necessities to be, let's say, a field manager, or perhaps a general manager." -- former Dodger general manager Al Campanis in 1987 on ABC's "Nightline" Or "disadvantaged" students lack the "genetic hereditary...
The Mantra of Many Black Leaders
Jasper, Texas -- Along with Rosewood, the Tuskegee Experiment, the murder of Emmett Till and the beating of Rodney King, Jasper shows that "racism is alive and well in America." That, at least, remains the mantra of many black leaders. In Jasper, three white...
Clarence Thomas: Victim of Racism…by Blacks?
For its July Luncheon in Memphis, Tenn., the black National Bar Association invites Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas to speak. But wait! The judicial branch of the association later votes 12-3 to rescind the invitation. A member tells the Richmond, Va.,...
What’s Next, Burger Busters?
A man puffing a cigarette stood beneath a tree and looked up to find a pigeon sitting on the branch squarely above his head. "Go ahead," he said to the bird. "Everybody else has." Memo to non-cigarette smokers: You're next. After over 30 years of cigarette-package...
Don’t Wear Your Race On Your Sleeve
Remember the President's recent town hall meeting on sports and race, where he encouraged team owners to hire more minorities for management jobs? A small article in the sports pages illustrates a big, yet unspoken, problem. The Massachusetts Commission Against...
The “Hollywoodization” of the News
"Channel 4 News sincerely apologizes for broadcasting the suicide of a man on a freeway in downtown Los Angeles. We did not anticipate this man's actions in time to cut away, and we deeply regret that any of our viewers saw this tragedy on our air." This statement,...
Stepping Up and Proposition 209
Have you been watching the NBA playoffs? Have you noticed the increased intensity of play? Players who seemed lethargic during the regular season suddenly dive for balls, furiously guard opponents and display greater emotion. Coaches call it "stepping up" --- trying...
‘Anti-Discrimination’ Laws Destroy ‘Human’ Rights and Institutionalize Bigotry
In 1991, Delwin Vriend was fired from his job as a lab co-ordinator at a private Christian college in Edmonton, Alberta, for being an active homosexual, a "lifestyle choice" that contravened the college's moral code.Vriend took the Government of Alberta to court for...
Software Rights, Browsers, Netscape, and Microsoft
One reader has wondered whether the recent attacks on Microsoft stem from the fact that software intellectual property rights are not predominantly protected by patent law, but rely in part on copyright law. The reader said this in context of a suggestion that...
The Media and Jerry Springer
This just in: The Jerry Springer Show is "fake"! Springer unmasked! America outraged! Excuse me, but isn't the media calling Jerry Springer "fake" sort of like Jeffrey Dahmer calling carnivores immoral? Sixteen former Springer guests appeared on the tabloid TV show...
A Health Care Solution: Medical Savings Accounts
America's health care system is failing. Many Americans alarmed by this fact voice their usual mantra: "Something must be done." But virtually every "something" politicians enact -- such as Medicare reform, government-mandated HMOs, the Kennedy-Kassaubaum bill --...
Hoop Dreams and the “Black-White Gap”
The brilliant documentary Hoop Dreams follows two young inner-city black boys who envision careers in the NBA. Neither makes it. Sadder, though, were the kids' parents. So convinced of their children's NBA destiny, they spent little time encouraging their children to...
The Department of Professions
Imagine that in 1917 our government usurped each individual's crucial responsibility of choosing their own profession, and that primarily because this government agency, called the Department of Professions (the DOP), has existed for generations, most Americans today...
Collectivism’s Sacred Cow: Public Education
When I need to purchase a new computer (or software program), I know that computer entrepreneurs are free to innovate and compete for my money, and I am free to choose the best offer in terms of performance, quality and price. Am I free to purchase the best education...
TWA: Teaching While Asian
DWB: Driving While Black. That's an expression some blacks use to argue that police unfairly single them out. Let's try a new one: TWA -- Teaching While Asian. Imagine you're fifth-grade teacher Marylin Fong, an Asian, who last week got dinged with a million-dollar...
Protection of Individual Rights is Good Government
Good government? Isn't that an oxymoron?Many today believe so. Who can blame them? Our political system has increasingly become a chaotic jungle driven by competing pressure groups ("special interests") seeking special "favours" and handouts from government....
Waiting for Fidel
BOOK REVIEW: WAITING FOR FIDEL By Christopher Hunt (Houghton Mifflin, $13) The Pope's visit to Cuba and Fidel Castro's subsequent release of political prisoners this week are a reminder that the Communist dictator still has a grip on Cuba's fate. Christopher Hunt's...
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