February 2, 2004 -- Given the fact that the title of director Denys Arcand's previous film was The Decline of the American Empire, that his
September 10, 2004 -- On September 9, Frank Quattrone, a prominent investment banker formerly with Credit Suisse First Boston, was sentenced
October 18, 2001 -- “Manifest Destiny” is the term originally created by John L. O’Sullivan in the 1840s to describe America's westward...
October 18, 2001 -- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on October 10 to three economists whose work might have
October 16, 2001 -- As Congress prepares to pass a new security bill and America faces a terrible and insidious threat, there is no more
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing a local government to kick 87-year-old Wilhelmina Dery out of the house in which she was born, along with
"Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments. Man's profound need of art lies in the fact
Let’s imagine a woman who is getting pressure from some obnoxious sleazeball stud to cheat on her husband and commit adultery. She’s tempted
December 17, 2004 -- Christmas is a season of beautiful lights, parties, gifts, food, family, friends, songs, and sentiments. Among the
Greg Hitt and Jeanne Cummings wrote on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (September 26, 2001): "In just two weeks, the terrorist....
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.....
October 9, 2001 -- As the full impact of the barbaric attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon unfolded, we realized that we were witnesses to the worst terrorist attack in history. And even for the majority of us who do not personally know anyone whose life was stolen, the reports out of New York and Washington left a painful spiritual wound. Events as horrific and terrifying as these attacks tear us from the normal context of our lives and throw us into a seemingly inescapable world of chaos and unknown terrors. These events destroy, at least temporarily, the connection we feel with reality. We feel lost, alone, and without a way to make sense of the world. It makes it hard, as many people experienced, to focus on mundane tasks and everyday activities. These lose their meaning and make our lives feel as if they are also without meaning.
January 1, 2007 -- [Published in The Washington Times] Janus, the Roman god after which the first month of our year is named, had two faces. One looked at the past year and the other looked ahead at the year to come. On New Year's Day in ancient Rome, the new magistrates would assume power; we wait until a few days later to swear in ours, since politicians hung over from partying would be even less fit for office than they already are. New Year's is traditionally when we reflect upon the year gone by and make solemn resolutions for the twelve months to come. Surveys find self-improvement rather than saving the world is most often on Americans' minds.
January 30, 2006 -- A Columbia, Maryland neighborhood has been invaded by vultures. Not lawyers, politicians, and others to whom this description is often attached, but the real, flying, circling-the-dead, feeding-on-decaying-corpses ones. They are damaging the roofs on which they perch. The droppings of these fowl foul houses, cars, sidewalks, and streets, exposing the children who they frighten to diseases as well as nightmares. Non-violent means have failed to chase away the pests. In a more enlightened age, the answer to the problem would be simple. The adults might pack off the children for a Saturday afternoon, get out their rifles, have a neighborhood shooting party, take away the dead bird bodies for sanitary disposal, do a final cleanup, and spend a peaceful Saturday night, kids safely back to home and hearth.
February 27, 2002 -- The enemies of capitalism are using Enron Corporation’s sudden bankruptcy to launch a new wave of attacks on the free market. Enron confirms the Left’s view that business is a dog-eat-dog arena of swindlers and exploiters that requires active government management. Enron lets the Right make a show of standing up to big business. So a host of new regulations on private business activities is moving forward in Congress, ranging from more restrictive rules on 401(k) retirement savings to intensive government oversight of the accounting profession. These new regulations won’t help Enron employees or shareholders. They aren’t meant to. They are meant to fix capitalism, but politicians can’t fix the problems that Enron exposed.
The final figures are in. According to Isabelle Dubois-Costes of General Funeral Services in France, the death toll in the country's summer
We can always count on the French to show us how holding the wrong moral values and following the wrong economic policies will produce a...
September 6, 2005 -- What could be a friendlier or more welcoming place than Hawaii, America's 50th state? If S-147, the Native Hawaiian
The severe winter snows and spring flooding in much of the country have yielded this summer's bumper crop of mosquitoes that carry the
February 2, 2004 -- Given the fact that the title of director Denys Arcand's previous film was The Decline of the American Empire, that his
September 10, 2004 -- On September 9, Frank Quattrone, a prominent investment banker formerly with Credit Suisse First Boston, was sentenced
October 18, 2001 -- “Manifest Destiny” is the term originally created by John L. O’Sullivan in the 1840s to describe America's westward...
October 18, 2001 -- The Nobel Memorial Prize in Economic Sciences was awarded on October 10 to three economists whose work might have
October 16, 2001 -- As Congress prepares to pass a new security bill and America faces a terrible and insidious threat, there is no more
The U.S. Supreme Court is allowing a local government to kick 87-year-old Wilhelmina Dery out of the house in which she was born, along with
"Capitalism is a social system based on the recognition of individual rights, including property rights, in which all property is privately
Art is a selective re-creation of reality according to an artist's metaphysical value judgments. Man's profound need of art lies in the fact
Let’s imagine a woman who is getting pressure from some obnoxious sleazeball stud to cheat on her husband and commit adultery. She’s tempted
December 17, 2004 -- Christmas is a season of beautiful lights, parties, gifts, food, family, friends, songs, and sentiments. Among the
Greg Hitt and Jeanne Cummings wrote on the front page of the Wall Street Journal (September 26, 2001): "In just two weeks, the terrorist....
Inventions have long since reached their limit, and I see no hope for further development.....
October 9, 2001 -- As the full impact of the barbaric attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon unfolded, we realized that we were witnesses to the worst terrorist attack in history. And even for the majority of us who do not personally know anyone whose life was stolen, the reports out of New York and Washington left a painful spiritual wound. Events as horrific and terrifying as these attacks tear us from the normal context of our lives and throw us into a seemingly inescapable world of chaos and unknown terrors. These events destroy, at least temporarily, the connection we feel with reality. We feel lost, alone, and without a way to make sense of the world. It makes it hard, as many people experienced, to focus on mundane tasks and everyday activities. These lose their meaning and make our lives feel as if they are also without meaning.
January 1, 2007 -- [Published in The Washington Times] Janus, the Roman god after which the first month of our year is named, had two faces. One looked at the past year and the other looked ahead at the year to come. On New Year's Day in ancient Rome, the new magistrates would assume power; we wait until a few days later to swear in ours, since politicians hung over from partying would be even less fit for office than they already are. New Year's is traditionally when we reflect upon the year gone by and make solemn resolutions for the twelve months to come. Surveys find self-improvement rather than saving the world is most often on Americans' minds.
January 30, 2006 -- A Columbia, Maryland neighborhood has been invaded by vultures. Not lawyers, politicians, and others to whom this description is often attached, but the real, flying, circling-the-dead, feeding-on-decaying-corpses ones. They are damaging the roofs on which they perch. The droppings of these fowl foul houses, cars, sidewalks, and streets, exposing the children who they frighten to diseases as well as nightmares. Non-violent means have failed to chase away the pests. In a more enlightened age, the answer to the problem would be simple. The adults might pack off the children for a Saturday afternoon, get out their rifles, have a neighborhood shooting party, take away the dead bird bodies for sanitary disposal, do a final cleanup, and spend a peaceful Saturday night, kids safely back to home and hearth.
February 27, 2002 -- The enemies of capitalism are using Enron Corporation’s sudden bankruptcy to launch a new wave of attacks on the free market. Enron confirms the Left’s view that business is a dog-eat-dog arena of swindlers and exploiters that requires active government management. Enron lets the Right make a show of standing up to big business. So a host of new regulations on private business activities is moving forward in Congress, ranging from more restrictive rules on 401(k) retirement savings to intensive government oversight of the accounting profession. These new regulations won’t help Enron employees or shareholders. They aren’t meant to. They are meant to fix capitalism, but politicians can’t fix the problems that Enron exposed.
The final figures are in. According to Isabelle Dubois-Costes of General Funeral Services in France, the death toll in the country's summer
We can always count on the French to show us how holding the wrong moral values and following the wrong economic policies will produce a...
September 6, 2005 -- What could be a friendlier or more welcoming place than Hawaii, America's 50th state? If S-147, the Native Hawaiian
The severe winter snows and spring flooding in much of the country have yielded this summer's bumper crop of mosquitoes that carry the