If an individual, and a fictional one at that, can be a microcosm of a state, then Israel and Howard Roark, the legendary architect of Ayn Rand’s classic “The Fountainhead,” may have a lot in common. Sound far-fetched? Not according to the Ayn Rand...
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The European Union Wants to Tax You!
You don’t have to be an economist to know that when tax collectors from the European Union complain about “certain distortions of competition” and announce a need to “correct” it, a blueprint for higher taxes can’t be far behind....
The United Nation’s War Against Israel
In true U.N tradition, Annan ignores the action of gunmen that murder five-year old girls in cold blood, of teenage bombers programmed to indiscriminately kill Jews and of the Palestinian soldiers that cower in teeming population centers, allowing woman and children to …
The Arab-Israeli Impasse: Winning by Retreating?
How to break the Arab-Israeli impasse? Increasingly, one hears, not just from Palestinians, but from the universities and from media commentators, that things would improve markedly if only Israeli forces immediately left the West Bank and Gaza. Would such a move help...
An America President in Communist Cuba
Two major stories emerged last week regarding Cuba; one story you probably know — Jimmy Carter was in Cuba — and the other you probably do not. The contrast represents the complete inversion of what really matters. An American president in Cuba, current or...
Trading Places on Taxes: Russia and the United States
Eleven years ago, the Soviet Union was a communist dictatorship, an “evil empire,” in the words of President Reagan. But today, the Cold War is a fading memory, and the nation that used to represent international socialism has junked its...
Israel or the Palestinians? Making the Moral Choice
As the Israeli military stomps Palestinian gunmen and levels their lairs, the chorus of voices chanting “restraint!” has unfortunately been joined by the Bush administration, albeit with less gusto than the Europeans. But its detractors notwithstanding,...
Destroying Israel on the Installment Plan
Everyone seems to be clamoring for the United States to “do something” about the carnage in the Middle East. Demands for action are ringing out from the pacifists on the left to the “national greatness” crowd among the neo-conservatives on the...
United Nations Call for Palestinian State Spells Suicide for Palestinians
In place of the terrorists now representing them, Palestinians should send to the negotiating table representatives who believe in and honor individual rights–leaders who plan to establish a free civilized country where violence is abhorred and suppressed. Only then wi…
The Latest European Fashion
The rocks have been lifted all over Europe, and the snakes of Jew-hatred are slithering free. In Belgium, thugs beat up the chief rabbi, kicking him in the face and calling him “a dirty Jew.” Two synagogues in Brussels were firebombed; a third, in...
Why Israel Must Not Withdraw
Colin Powell has failed, so far, in his attempt to browbeat Israel into joining America’s official surrender in the War on Terrorism. Yet Ariel Sharon has repeatedly stated that his armies will eventually withdraw from the West Bank, and that Israel does not...
Israel vs. The Palestinian Dictatorship: Netanyahu’s Speech before the U.S. Senate
These concerns first surfaced with the appearance of a reprehensible moral symmetry that equates Israel, a democratic government that is defending itself against terror, with the Palestinian dictatorship that is perpetrating it.
Cuba’s Bravest and Best
HAVANA — “There are no banned books in Cuba,” Fidel Castro declared in February 1998, “only those which we have no money to buy.” Of course, books *are* banned in Cuba; just try to locate one that criticizes Castro. Bookstores and public...
The Only “Solution” Is Victory: War Between Israel and the Palestinians
Not one of these suggestions addresses the real problem: the Palestinians’ conviction that, by continuing to hammer away at Israel, they can defeat and destroy it.
Cuba on No Dollars a Day
“This is the real Havana,” Miguel said as we turned from Avenida Simon Bolivar to a gritty side street cratered with potholes. “Here you see how Cubans live. Tourists don’t come to *this* street.” Well, they might if they were simply...
We Are Either With Israel, Or We Are With the Terrorists
We may be about to witness a major victory in the War on Terrorism, a victory as important as any in Afghanistan or Iraq. But American troops will not win this victory, and the battle will be fought without the support and even against the wishes of our president....
“Diversity” In India
If facts carried some weight with those who are politically correct, the recent outbreak of savage and lethal violence in India’s state of Gujarat might cause some reassessments of both India and “diversity.” This is only the latest round in a cycle...
Arafat’s Political Strategy Against Israel: The Power of Weakness
Amid the surging violence in the Middle East, more and more voices on the left are calling on the Bush administration to take a more active role in mediating a workable détente. Israel and the Palestinians must return to the negotiating table, we are told, and only...
Israel’s Suicide
With unremitting ferocity, Arab terrorists this weekend again attacked Israelis through suicide bombing and sniper fire–brutally killing 22. Despite such carnage, despite Yasser Arafat’s hollow promises to quell such violence, despite his record of...
Fidel Castro: The Charmer and the Torturer
A gaggle of gullible women from Seattle flew to Havana last week to meet with Cuban dictator Fidel Castro. They found him “charming” and “eloquent.” They were especially flattered that Castro — the head of one of the world’s most...
South Africa After Apartheid: Black Rule Alone is No Guarantee for Black Freedom
Moral crusaders have the habit of heading off to their next crusade without bothering to see whether anything went wrong on their last one. During the ’80s, TransAfrica, NAACP, Black Congressional Caucus, Hollywood glitterati, college students, and other groups...
Arabs Still Wish to Destroy Israel
Last June, Palestinian television broadcast a sermon in a Gaza mosque in which the imam, Ibrahim Madi, made the following statement: “God willing, this unjust state Israel will be erased; this unjust state the United States will be erased; this unjust state...
Argentina’s Economic Crisis: An “Absence of Capitalism”
The key factor underlying recent financial crises is not a failure of capitalism, but an “absence of capitalism.”
“African American” Blackmailers Come to Harvard
I had been thinking that Harvard did well to make former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers its new president last summer, and when the news broke recently that Summers had so offended the stars of the university’s Afro-American Studies Department that they were...
The Global Tax Police: Europe’s Tax “Harmonization” is a Smokescreen to Raise Taxes
Globalization is bad news for the world’s over-taxed welfare states, particularly those in Europe. Thanks to the increased mobility of capital, individuals can more easily shift their economic activity to low-tax jurisdictions. Such tax competition liberalizes...
Endgame in Afghanistan
Even before the amount of Taliban-controlled territory in Afghanistan had shrunk to virtually nothing and Osama bin Laden’s forces had beat a hasty retreat deep into the mountains, the question arose: Where should we carry the war on terrorism next? Iraq,...
Arabs Have Never Accepted Israel
In June of this year, Palestinian television broadcast a sermon in a Gaza mosque in which the imam, Ibrahim Madi, made the following statement: “God willing, this unjust state [of] Israel, will be erased; this unjust state the United States will be erased; this...
A Lesson in U.S. Foreign Policy for India: With Friends Like Us …
India is beginning to learn what Israel has learned, brutally, over the past year: the U.S. State Department loves to betray our friends. It is now more than a week since Pakistan-backed Islamic terrorists shot up the Indian Parliament in New Delhi, killing 12 people...
Israel May Be Winning
Secretary of State Colin L. Powell recently observed that the Palestinians “need to understand that [terrorism] leads nowhere,” and on this basis he urged them to stop their violence against Israelis. Good policy advice, but does the Palestinian use of...
Defend the United States By Allowing Israel to Destroy the PLO
It is time that the United States recognize the true nature of Yasser Arafat and his regime. The PLO has been engaged in a terror campaign against Israel for decades, and today supports fanatical suicide bombers, who deliberately target and murder innocent civilians....
An Afghanistan Thanksgiving
This year’s Thanksgiving was an unusual one. This uniquely American holiday was punctuated with a constant flow of news … at our house, most of it courtesy of my friend Jack, an inveterate news hound … about far-off Afghanistan. I had feared, after...
Will the United Nations Become the Next IRS?
A key United Nations panel has proposed a radical plan to give international bureaucrats sweeping powers over U.S. tax policy. This scheme, which will be part of the agenda at the International Conference on Financing for Development next March, would undermine...
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