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06/2002 - 09/2002


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Once again, a President Bush saves the U.N. from its friends
09/30/2002


Wife Goes On Strike While Husband Goes Fishin'
Woman Wants Simple 'Thank You'...
09/30/2002


Will Deterrence Work with Saddam?
The Dems’ new favorite word...
09/30/2002


Whose Side are They on?
Congressman Jim McDermott has just accused president Bush of wilfully lying to the American people...
09/30/2002


Vision of World War IV
Wake up America, you are already in World War IV...
09/30/2002


The Saddam menace
The cause for war in Afghanistan was simple...
09/30/2002


For the homeland
It now has been more than three months since President Bush sent Congress his bold proposal...
09/30/2002


Profound misreading
Al Gore is not president of the United States...
09/30/2002


Support tort law reform
In the casino that tort law has become, wild wagers are becoming routine...
09/30/2002


Clinton's economic legacy
The most recent recession was not as mild as some popular economic statistics have indicated...
09/30/2002


Better to act than act shocked
In the past year, layoffs, rising unemployment, and escalating health-care costs, have increased...
09/30/2002


Man in Wheelchair Scales World's Tallest Tower
Canadian paralympian Jeff Adams climbed the 1,776 stairs of the world largest tower in a wheelchair...
09/30/2002


Democratic Fog of War
Daschle, Gore, Dopey, Sneezy, et al...
09/27/2002


U.N. rights committee rejects French dwarf tossing appeal
09/27/2002


Taking Sides
Saddam Hussein likes to use as envoys men who are sick with fear and humiliation, and whose families are hostages...
09/27/2002


Gore's Glass House
Why didn't the Clinton-Gore administration go after this fifth-rate military power?
09/27/2002


Arm-to-Arm Against Bioterrorism
Smallpox is the most deadly disease in our species’ history...
09/27/2002


A debate worth having
What a week the Democrats have had...
09/27/2002


The new San Francisco democrat
The New Republic may think this was a new Gore, but to me it was the same old Al...
09/27/2002


Daschle politicizes Iraq
The Senate should be deliberately debating the threat Iraq's weapons of mass destruction pose against the United States...
09/27/2002


Backfire
Why else would a typically unruffled Daschle humiliate himself publicly?
09/27/2002


Hitchens: We Must Fight Iraq
Anybody with any sense must confess that there can be no return to the security posture adopted before September 11, 2001...
09/27/2002


Rods for Real
Pro fishing is a cash cow...
09/27/2002


Mr. Bush, Stop the Insanity
This is not the country we want to be...
09/27/2002


Perception of Doors
When I was a kid, if I saw an artist I admired doing a commercial, I'd think, 'Too bad, he must really need the money'...
09/27/2002


Buffy, the U.N. slayer
Without Buffy, the council is nothing more than a debating society...
09/26/2002


Science Looking Beyond the Horizon
Prevailing scientific assumptions about the true nature of the universe appear to be 'logically flawed'... 09/26/2002


Scientists Grow Pig Teeth in Rat Intestines
09/26/2002


Daschle's Distortions
Talk about Iraq without really talking about Iraq...
09/26/2002


ABC, CBS Justify Daschle’s Tantrum, Distort Reason For It
09/26/2002


Gore on War
He raised some legitimate concerns...
09/26/2002


Divide . . . and lose
09/26/2002


Arab News: Waiting for the invasion of Iraq
Any new government would be an improvement...
09/26/2002


Al Gore's Political Suicide
Mr. Gore's speech was more critical of President Bush than our enemies...
09/26/2002


Why We Hate Them
Japanese kamikaze pilots hated us once too....
09/26/2002


Senate Pouters
Hissy fits really are entertaining...
09/26/2002


Look Who's Playing Politics
Some notice should be paid to the speech that the formerly important Al Gore delivered...
09/26/2002


Senator's Poke at President a Score for '04
Tom Daschle could rip his own party apart...
09/26/2002


The Genocidal Hamas Charter
Yasser Arafat and co...
09/26/2002


Addicted to cigarette tax revenues
Let us stipulate that the world would be better without cigarettes...
09/26/2002


Focus on Talent
Missouri contest could tip the Senate to the GOP — at least temporarily...
09/26/2002


'Politicizing' the War
The most obvious way to gain political advantage is timing it to coincide with elections...
09/26/2002


The truth be told
The United States has heroically supported Israel in the face of almost worldwide condemnation...
09/26/2002


Al Quaeda vs. Iraq
The question of which is the bigger threat...
09/26/2002


Post-Saddam Iraq
The millions of people who reside in the Kurdish safe haven believe that they are today living in a golden age...
09/26/2002


Simple cures for what ails corporations
Enron, WorldCom, and company failed by making unusually bad business decisions...
09/26/2002


Elderly housewife bashes to death violent husband
09/26/2002


Beyond Deterrence
What are we waiting for?
09/25/2002


Radical Conservatism
Radical revisionism in basic governmental philosophy and structure engineered by President Bush...
09/25/2002


Litigation: The death of democracy
Small and extreme groups are finding it increasingly easy to bypass and subvert the democratic process...
09/25/2002


The perils of polling
Polling is in trouble. Big trouble....
09/25/2002


Gore-ing Iraq
Speech was one no minimally decent politician could have delivered...
09/25/2002


Hackwork by Gore?
He was certainly being less cynical than the Democratic leadership in Congress...
09/25/2002


The ethically challenged Erskine Bowles
09/25/2002


Who Needs Jesse Jackson?
A declaration of independence...
09/25/2002


Not Getting America
Technically speaking, we aren't actually the boss of the world...
09/24/2002


Democrats should take on Bush rather than avoiding big issues
09/24/2002


Al Gore's selective amnesia
09/24/2002


I Fought the Future for the CIA
09/24/2002


The Unchurched
A new study puts Washington as the second most irreligious sate. I’m not so sure...
09/24/2002


Miami road hogs will drive you crazy
I am sure that the drivers in your city are all homicidal morons...
09/24/2002


Freedom is a powerful weapon against terror
It's disturbing that so many Americans seem willing to give up essential freedoms to wage the war...
09/24/2002


Doctoral Candidates of the World, Unite!
The United Auto Workers think that graduate students should fall under their jurisdiction...
09/24/2002


Now the fun begins for Herr Schroeder
Yogi Berra would understand the German elections....
09/24/2002


Now We Know
I wonder what Al Gore's champions in the 2000 race must think now...
09/24/2002


Al Qaeda Camp in Oregon
Prosperity may have bypassed this corner of the Pacific Northwest, but self-styled entrepreneur Earnest James Ujaama sensed opportunity...
09/24/2002


Won’t Get Fooled Again
Same story. Different season. (Some) much wiser...
09/24/2002


Germany the day after
Scandals involving comments about President Bush and Hitler paved the way for one of the most unusual elections...
09/24/2002


The Taxpayer's Addendum
We have 535 grown men and women who can't seem to perform the basic function of establishing a budget...
09/24/2002


Homeland security veto bait
Today, Sens. Zell Miller and Phil Gramm will introduce a critical compromise amendment...
09/24/2002


Letter From Egypt
I don't understand anything about America's culture. What could I hope to learn about Egypt's?
09/23/2002


Era of Big Government Has Just Begun
The forthcoming war for Baghdad is likely to change the government here in the U.S. as well...
09/23/2002


Intelligence? What intelligence?
To have Congress investigate intelligence failures is like asking the Madame to check her employees for VD...
09/23/2002


Fox vs CAIR
A leading lobby group for Muslim Americans has put the Fox News Channel in its crosshairs... 09/23/2002


Ground Zero is not a battlefield
A battlefield is hallowed ground...
09/23/2002


92-year-old woman gets 30-year mortgage
09/23/2002


Democrats line up as Bush moves forward
Not too long ago, most Democratic leaders were criticizing President Bush's intentions to topple Saddam...
09/23/2002


The Iraq Debate
The vice president argues that we must remove from power an irrational dictator...
09/23/2002


Not Peace-Loving, After All
Is Islam itself a threat?
09/23/2002


Stock drains and Social Security
Social Security's current "pay-as-you-go" financing will inevitably require reform as hordes of Baby Boomers retire...
09/23/2002


Greenpeace pushes old answers
Greenpeace is striving aggressively to place the burden for homeland security on the chemical and energy industries...
09/23/2002


The Odd Couple Bush-Blair synergy - why?
09/23/2002


Small business in credit crunch
The National Bureau of Economic Research decided that it is still not sure when the recession ended — or if it has ended...
09/23/2002


The Bush Doctrine
Revolutionary in several respects...
09/21/2002


Death Dances
Are all the Iraq contingency plans in place?
09/21/2002


Israel's destructive powers could flatten Iraq
09/21/2002


Undies against culture, dancers told
09/21/2002


The War And Iran
Foreign minister of Iran interviewed by Washington Post columnist Lally Weymouth...
09/21/2002


Oh No! The Germans Don’t Like Us
Why are they so opposed to a war in the first place?
09/20/2002


Dr. Know
No one at the Pentagon has ever wrestled with the limits of knowledge as ferociously as Donald Rumsfeld...
09/20/2002


Restoring suspense to election night
Florida has raised election-day disaster to an art form...
09/20/2002


Is This the Way To Decide on Iraq?
When the case is the abstraction of strengthening the House of Kofi, the Democrats are ready to parachute into Baghdad....
09/20/2002


The New Space Race?
Chinese nuclear-powered space craft a possibility...
09/20/2002


Bush suckered the Democrats
What happened between September 1st and 6th is that the Democratic Party woke up...
09/20/2002


Remember Rick Rescorla
U.S. intelligence could learn from his valor and leadership...
09/20/2002


Why don't they fear us?
Even in defeat, Hussein found victory...
09/20/2002


Vichy Thought Police
09/20/2002


Nothing worth waiting for
Unfortunate typo in the letter to the United Nations, wasn't it?
09/20/2002


Evangelist Told He Needs License To Sell 'Miracle Water'
09/20/2002


Hawks offer no proof to justify attack on Iraq
09/20/2002


Iraqi Interrogatories
The usual questions about Iraq...
09/20/2002


Let’s Have More Teen Pregnancy
It’s not a problem...
09/20/2002


The Motivations for War
Buildup to war has come at an extremely convenient time for Republicans...
09/20/2002


Daschle's tirade on economy
09/20/2002


Deliver us from 'evil'
An astonishingly philistine, know-nothing posture for those who preen as the guardians of intellectual standards...
09/20/2002


Broken Window Gone Iraqi
Can Iraq benefit from a U.S. attack?
09/19/2002


Adventure in Asmara
A Report on the Sudanese Resistance...
09/19/2002


So three Arabs walk into a bar...
A prank in Florida...
09/19/2002


The death of outrage
The kids are back to school, but we adults remain out to lunch...
09/19/2002


Bush Adjusts His Priorities As War on Terror Evolves
09/19/2002


Joe Biden was Right
About Scott Ritter...
09/19/2002


Cooling as the Clock Ticks
The further we get from Sept 11, 2001 the harder it gets to make a case for war...
09/19/2002


Hit the Road, Jack
Let me see now, wasn't this about the time that everybody in urban America would have shucked their filthy automobiles?
09/19/2002


Gun-Toting Musician Forces DJ to Play His Album
09/19/2002


My Mafia Memories
In this column I shall not mention any of my young friends' real names...
09/19/2002


Democrats do Bush a real favour
They wanted him to 'make the case' for war - now their issues don't matter...
09/19/2002


War and circumstance
Von Clausewitz reminds us, in war even the simplest of things can go wrong...
09/19/2002


College's use of meat for tuition draws fire
09/19/2002


Power play
We have just witnessed one of the swiftest and most effective exercises of presidential power ever...
09/19/2002


The Boy Scouts in the front lines
A sobering reminder that 9/11 did not, in fact, change 'everything'
09/19/2002


Weighing the risks
Does the U.S. have the resources and the will to win a war?
09/19/2002


Bush: Three for Three
Calling the bluffs of the Democrats, the international community, and Saddam Hussein alike...
09/18/2002


All or Nothing
This poorly baited Iraqi trap doesn’t cut it...
09/18/2002


Iraqi deja vu
This, to put it mildly, and in the words of an old and apt phrase, shall not stand...
09/18/2002


The bizarre odyssey of Scott Ritter
09/18/2002


The Sky Didn’t Fall
So far, the naysayers were wrong about the war on terror...
09/18/2002


A clear call to arms, and men follow
09/17/2002


Bush's steely resolve pays dividends again
So far, history is on his side...
09/17/2002


The president's intentions are clear
President's seemingly clear speech to the United Nations converted into a document of Delphic ambiguity...
09/17/2002


Saddam Blinks
Well, that was easy...
09/17/2002


West has gone along too often with Saddam's lies
The Iraqi dicatator played then-president Bill Clinton like a trout on a line...
09/17/2002


Bad decision by Bush administration on smallpox vaccinations
09/17/2002


Majority Report
Will House become Speaker Gephardt's graveyard for the president's priorities during the remainder of his term?
09/17/2002


While Bush Leads World Against Iraq, Democrats Dither
09/17/2002


History Shows Us Midterm War Talk Works
Flashback to 1962...
09/17/2002


Study: Universe may collapse in 'mere' 10 billion years
09/17/2002


Orwellian 'Peace' Movement
SPAN tutors students on United States policy's responsibility for all the troubles of the world...
09/17/2002


'Mile High Club' Forces Airplane Refit
09/17/2002


The Greening of McKinney
Defeated demagogue may find political resurrection...
09/17/2002


Blaming Jeb for voting mess is a pitiful Democratic deceit
09/17/2002


Democrats have only themselves to blame for new voting fiasco
09/17/2002


Why Liberals Oppose Unilateralism
Attempt to eliminate all power must lead to the concentration of all power in a global totalitarian state...
09/17/2002


Saddam's Little Helpers
Radical academics and Hollywood celebrities trying to resurrect the old '60s anti-Vietnam War coalition...
09/16/2002


Freedom Denied
State shuns efforts to help free Pat Roush’s daughters...
09/16/2002


One click away from humiliation
New York woman mistakenly sends e-mail to date...
09/16/2002


Man Divorces Quarrelsome Wife for Mute Woman
09/16/2002


Boston transit police use music to deter loitering teenagers
09/16/2002


The gates of hell and all that
Here's some news: They've already opened...
09/16/2002


West Nile Paranoia
Senator Leahy doesn't think Saddam is a threat, but he does think West Nile virus could be the work of terrorists...
09/16/2002


A Presidential Wannabe’s Selective Amnesia
Al Gore forgets his eight years at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue...
09/16/2002


More globaloney from UN...and a ray of hope
09/16/2002


Tell-tale slip of an al Qaeda tongue?
Osama bin Laden referred to in past tense...
09/16/2002


'Badass' added to Oxford English Dictionary
09/16/2002


Bush vs. the United Nations
Let's get one thing straight from the outset: The U.N. sucks.
09/13/2002


Public Service Announcement: People for the Ethical Treatment of Alec Baldwin
09/13/2002


Just what is it with Florida and elections?
09/13/2002


This president has failed to make a clear case for war
09/13/2002


Donahue a Disaster
09/13/2002


Remember the Cassandras who predicted disaster before the Gulf War?
09/13/2002


'We Don't Know Anything'
INS has problems...
09/13/2002


Oldest Known Penis Is 100 Million Years Old
09/13/2002


Finally, George W. speaks for himself
09/13/2002


Microsoft researcher unearths first ever smiley :-)
09/13/2002


Fictional rift
So much for the great Republican split over Iraq...
09/13/2002


Bystanders
It has been a long time since this journal felt so despondent about the Democratic Party...
09/13/2002


The Dems' war plan
If they are forced to choose sides on war with Iraq now, Democrats will be trapped...
09/13/2002


Military morale for the long haul
It's very good now, but we can't take it for granted...
09/13/2002


Neville Chamberlain's Grandchildren
No one would sleep a quiet sleep for another seven years courtesy of European cowardice, fear, and fantasy...
09/13/2002


Nothing New Under the Web
Opinions are like Dershowitzes (my term for a portion of the human posterior not printable in magazines of this caliber…you get the point):
09/13/2002


The bigotry behind opposition to school choice
09/13/2002


Bubba is Dubya's man
President Bush sent in the only man in the world who might help: Bill Clinton...
09/13/2002


The Americans' president
In his speeches yesterday, George W Bush did what he does best...
09/12/2002


Closure, with grace
An amazingly compact speech that may have been the briefest major presidential address since Lincoln spoke at Gettysburg...
09/12/2002


Political anguish for the Democrats
The White House, after a somewhat feigned reluctance, was only too happy to submit to weeks of debate on war...
09/12/2002


Dems' huge gift to W
Asking President Bush to explain his Iraq policy was the Democrats' first real political mistake since 9/11 - and it was a huge one...
09/12/2002


Shame on you American-hating liberals
America is this country's greatest friend and our staunchest ally...
09/12/2002


The Psychology Underlying 'Liberalism'
My basic proposal, then, is that most (but not all) Leftists/liberals are motivated by strong ego needs...
09/12/2002


Australian police investigate 'scary' wrestling
09/12/2002


Iraq is not the problem
Would overthrowing a secular ruler help or harm radical Islam?
09/12/2002


A trumpet amid tin whistles
Among the most thoughtful commentaries have been those by Victor Davis Hanson...
09/12/2002


What’s So Funny about Peace, Love and Understanding?
Post 9/11 humor...
09/11/2002


Laying the foundation for victory
Four large presidential accomplishments that have received little positive comment....
09/11/2002


The imperial era begins
Our relation to the world has changed, probably forever...
09/11/2002


What were they thinking?
How could they have misjudged America so badly?
09/11/2002


So we fight
Cultural relativism was incinerated by burning jet fuel...
09/11/2002


Iraqi roulette
We must never get caught flat-footed again...
09/11/2002


No Truer Friend
Blair stands alone in resisting the weak-kneed, appeasement-minded ways of fellow European elites...
09/11/2002


Behind the Hate
The enemy’s problem...
09/11/2002


America does not stand alone
We at the Sun are with the United States against terrorism...
09/11/2002


The second Judas
U.N. weapons inspector Scott Ritter's very public turnaround...
09/11/2002


A better America
9-11 attack provided many Americans with a moral and political clarity...
09/11/2002


The bin Ladens’ Great Escape
How the U.S. helped Osama's family leave the country after 9/11...
09/11/2002


President's interview may surprise some
His only TV interview this week — on 60 Minutes II Wednesday at 8 p.m.
09/10/2002


The Bush Doctrine began on Flight 93
09/10/2002


Lunar landing skeptic says Buzz Aldrin attacked him outside LA hotel
09/10/2002


Suiting up for war with an odd couple
It's not easy being the tough guy trying to make nice with the old women of Europe...
09/10/2002


New solidarity with an old Nordic friend
Denmark is among the biggest allies of the United States...
09/10/2002


American evils forgotten as country remembers Sept. 11
Tomorrow is Sept. 11, but I will not be joining the blathering voices...
09/10/2002


Malevolent Anti-Americanism
9-11 violently exposed the destructive consequences of cultural relativism...
09/10/2002


The elite war on our 'bigotry'
During the last year, it has rarely been clear which war we were fighting...
09/10/2002


Why liberals are not in talk radio
09/10/2002


A model for Iraq?
Bush's successful withdrawal of U.S. from ABM treaty...
09/10/2002


The Hilarious Dilemma of Liberal Patriotism
09/10/2002


The reeling left
Rethinking responses to Sept. 11...
09/10/2002


A shattered diamond
Remembering Barbara Olson...
09/10/2002


Thank you, New York
by TONY BLAIR
09/09/2002


Remembrance and resolve
Whenever I hear Sept. 11 referred to as just a tragedy, I wince...
09/09/2002


More Americans have been killed by militant Islamics than any other enemy since Vietnam
09/09/2002


Never mind the dossier, just leaf through 'Iraq for Dummies'
09/09/2002


Our Insane Focus on Iraq
We're not talking about Hitler...
09/09/2002


Loch Ness sighting: New Nessie pictures spark debate
09/09/2002


Twin shadows of Election '02
May blot out the light of every other issue our nation faces...
09/09/2002


Saudi Arabia: Friend or Foe?
09/09/2002


A trail of terror
Since the Munich Olympics, the world has buried its head in the sand...
09/09/2002


Homeland security vs. union power
Since 1978, the executive branch has had the authority to exempt certain agencies from union control...
09/09/2002


Congress' cloaked power grab
No wonder the president wants to retain this prerogative...
09/09/2002


The tyranny of the 10
Senate Judiciary Committee has exhibited again its selective contempt for the Constitution...
09/09/2002


Wall Street Still Insane About Tech Stocks
It's still alot of hype...
09/09/2002


Act Now
George Shultz: The danger is immediate. Saddam Hussein must be removed.
09/06/2002


The Objectors
Daschle, Carter, and Clinton....
09/06/2002


9/11 'Overkill'
Get the mute button ready...
09/06/2002


Bon temps on the Seine: Security courtesy of U.S.
Europe's capitals are the most relaxing places on Earth...
09/06/2002


Primary problems for Dems
Division between blacks and Jews continues to grow...
09/06/2002


Conservatives are wrong: War is not the answer
By JIMMY CARTER
09/06/2002


Jimmy Carter rides again
Former president deluding himself rather massively...
09/06/2002


Democrats for Regime Change
The president has some surprising allies....
09/06/2002


Indulging in the luxury of blame
Important new book debunks "romantic notion that all evil is a product of society..."
09/06/2002


Pet cockatoo may avenge owner's murder
09/06/2002


Sickening specter of a smallpox attack
09/06/2002


Democrats Kill Again
This time, they sink the Priscilla Owen nomination...
09/06/2002


Genocide with a Harvard patina
Is the multicultural campaign really about diversity?
09/06/2002


The Day Whitey Died
09/06/2002


Not grasping the signals on Iraq
The rules don't seem to apply to Colin L. Powell...
09/06/2002


Religious Wars
The intensifying crisis in the Mideast has opened many Jewish minds...
09/06/2002


Hunting 'Chicken Hawks'
Like most slurs, it works because it is both ugly and faintly amusing...
09/05/2002


Check the science
It's not just the economics: Highlight the problems with Kyoto science and let Canadians decide for themselves...
09/05/2002


Card to 'Grama in the blue house' gets delivered
09/05/2002


War: What Is It Good For?
Quite a lot, actually...
09/05/2002


Arabian nightmare
State Dept. helps Saudis keep kidnapped American children...
09/05/2002


After Sept. 11: Still waiting for the other shoe to drop
09/05/2002


9/11 Outrage In Colorado
Osama Bin Laden was apparently not available to address the students at Colorado College...
09/05/2002


Uneasy rest of appeasements past
09/05/2002


Can NJ Republican Douse the 'Torch'?
09/05/2002


The Feds' fib about low-fat
09/05/2002


Murder for fun and prophet
The paper of record gives terrorists a pass...
09/05/2002


Waiting for 'allies' to line up
Katie Couric says Jordan is a country "America needs desperately"
09/04/2002


The Washington Post gets religion?
09/04/2002


It’s a War, Stupid
Understanding and misunderstanding the detainees...
09/04/2002


Iran, according to the Times
All the nonsense that's fit to print...
09/04/2002


Weighing gestures before the strike
The point now is to 'bolster the case'
09/04/2002


Moralist mite in a miter
One would think that having experienced evil up close and surviving it, Archbishop Williams might have some insights...
09/04/2002


GOP should triangulate
Entire Democratic agenda for 2002 could be crippled if the GOP simply abandoned its refusal to meet the Democrats halfway on these issues...
09/04/2002


Score One for the Ethnic Grievance Industry
09/04/2002


These Are Traitorous Times
During wartime there were no Nazi sympathizers permitted to proselytize and preach against Uncle Sam’s efforts...
09/03/2002


Seeing through the Saudi PR effort
You've got to hand it to the Saudis; they've one-upped the Soviets....
09/03/2002


Don't Dianafy 9/11
For some, anniversary is about righteous anger; for others, coping and healing...
09/03/2002


Senate Watch
What to look for this fall - an update of the 12 hottest races...
09/03/2002


The rousing chorus of Nervous Nellies
What if George W. does the usual Republican turn, and climbs meekly down from the confrontation?
09/03/2002


Thoughts from a traveling man
This was the third time in a year that I've driven across the country...
09/03/2002


New Reality
Saddam, Clinton, and the Real Lesson of 9/11....
09/03/2002


Regulatory spending escalation
Government spends your money to come up with rules that force you to spend more of your money to obey those rules...
09/03/2002


Nature can get ugly
People who don't recognize this often pay the consequences...
09/03/2002


A litmus test for judicious senators
Priscilla Owen's appeals court nomination will reveal the health of the confirmation process...
09/03/2002


Baghdad death trap?
Saddam's troops are not Russians, nor even Vietnamese...
09/03/2002


Iran and al Qaeda
08/30/2002


Three months to Baghdad
Bush administration probably needs to make its final decision on war by November...
08/30/2002


The Song Remains the Same - as in 1990
Déjà vu on Iraq...
08/30/2002


The Wisdom of Inaction
Being wrong means never having to say you’re sorry...
08/30/2002


Penetrating Saddam's web
Cold gambit — human and cultural shields — designed to thwart U.S. advantages...
08/30/2002


The Chickenhawk Defense
There may be a multitude of lucid reasons why the United States should avoid a preemptive military strike against Iraq...
08/30/2002


Reparations divide
08/30/2002


Introduction of the flush toilet deplored at Earth Summit
08/30/2002


Battered Republican Syndrome
Bush has repeatedly set himself up as the test case of what happens when you try to play nice with a Democrat...
08/29/2002


A Summer of deviance
Are we losing the very words to describe such despicable acts and the moral code by which to judge them?
08/29/2002


For the sake of Danielle
It's time to arrest the others who helped facilitate Westerfield's access to her...
08/29/2002


Why Arabs lose wars
The impact of culture on military effectiveness...
08/29/2002


Let's misbehave
If giant corporations insist on hiring these pinheads, then we should shun the companies...
08/29/2002


If Churchill were alive today, he would strike at Saddam
08/29/2002


Call For Attack Vote Could Backfire On Dems
There's zero doubt a vote would strongly back Bush...
08/29/2002


The Terrible Logic of Nukes
Saddam is not crazy to want them. That's the reason he must go...
08/29/2002


Improvised war etiquette
The administration is conscientiously groping for a way to do something morally defensible...
08/29/2002


Where's the anger?
One reason why, increasingly, the skeptics are seizing control of the debate over how America should respond...
08/29/2002


Bush’s So-Called Friends
Polls suggest the president loses support he never really had....
08/29/2002


Pensioner fights off bear with right jab
08/29/2002


The Women the Taliban Couldn’t Take
Jane magazine doesn't like Lisa Beamer....
08/29/2002


Lesson Plans for 9-11
NEA agenda for classroom reflects not lack of patriotism, but modern liberal culture's shallowness...
08/29/2002


Incumbent lacks depth in Missouri
Mrs. Carnahan attained her Senate seat on a wave of public sympathy in the 2000 election...
08/29/2002


Sore losers
McKinney and Hilliard made common cause with radical Arab elements hostile to the United States and Israel...
08/29/2002


Paycheck withholding: A con on taxpayers
When it comes to 'cooking the books,' our elected leaders are regular Bobby Flays...
08/29/2002


Jonah and the Man
Real-life police drama: My run in with South Dakota law enforcement....
08/28/2002


Grizzly mauls animal rights activist
08/28/2002


'Sustainable growth' is not sustainable solution
Few groups, aside from the Flat-Earthers and fans of Carrot Top, have been more consistently wrong in their basic assumptions...
08/28/2002


Horowitz: Take off the gloves!!
'If Republicans ever get really serious about politics, they can easily change the world!'
08/28/2002


Let the Hannitization Begin
Listen to him. Watch him. Now, read him...
08/28/2002


A Summit Hard To Stomach
It's hard to commiserate about dire poverty when lodging at a $500-a-night, five-star hotel in Aspen...
08/28/2002


A call to new arms
Congress and the public alike have been put on notice of a significant evolution in U.S. national security strategy...
08/28/2002


Shakedown history
Asking for money is profoundly different from demanding equality...
08/28/2002


Secrecy, case by case
Did government act unlawfully in adopting a blanket policy to close hundreds of deportation hearings?
08/28/2002


Papal succession
Whispers seem to increase with each week of the Holy Father's faltering footsteps...
08/28/2002


Estrich Concedes She Defended Clinton's 'Indefensible' Behavior
08/28/2002


Making monkeys out of critics
What do evolutionists fear?
08/28/2002


Nothing silly about cooling a frenzy
You can't blame George W. for being a little spooked by the Nervous Nellies, the Reluctant Rubies, the Equivocating Eunices...
08/27/2002


How Kissinger the hawk was twisted into a false dove
What is going on at the New York Times?
08/27/2002


Muslim extemism: Denmark's had enough
08/27/2002


McAuliffe's options
Why has DNC Chairman suddenly become so touchy about his Midas touch in the financial markets?
08/27/2002


Bush not attending the UN-sponsored 'bash Amerika' conference?!
08/27/2002


Man accused of 'wedgie' killing
08/27/2002


Beware 'consensus leadership'
There has been a subtle change in the unsolicited advice George W. Bush is receiving...
08/27/2002


Gore travels U.S. dressed as hobo
Honing populist image, former veep rides rails, eats beans from can...
08/26/2002


Potent words, softly spoken, rock Saudi-US relations
08/26/2002


Chrétien: Hamas Isn't a Terrorist Group
It was another shameful Canadian moment...
08/26/2002


Waging class warfare
Democratic party morality play has opened to mixed reviews thus far...
08/26/2002


The NEA's sensitivity tutors
Makes one wish the NEA would stick to misleading legislators...
08/26/2002


Reno spins her promises while Jeb Bush just waits
Republicans aren't even covert in their support for Reno over her primary opponent...
08/26/2002


Goose tracked for research purposes found in hunter's freezer
08/26/2002


Turning boys into men
A week at Boy Scouts camp...
08/26/2002


Zimbabwe in black and white
A glaring example of how much damage a corrupt, hate-mongering leader can wreak on a country...
08/26/2002


Don't isolate Israel, use it
Israeli involvement in conflict is inevitable...
08/26/2002


Want to win votes? Mind your mouth
Voters are turned off by poisonous political rhetoric...
08/26/2002


Crusading to keep children clueless
Public education monopoly can't stand the thought of 'unqualified' parents teaching their own children...
08/26/2002


Policeman 'radioed colleagues to bring toilet roll'
In poorly equipped public toilet...
08/26/2002


California caves on Kyoto
08/26/2002


Who's Afraid of U.S.-Russian Friendship?
Is America's honeymoon with Russia over?
08/23/2002


Pre-emptive war debates
The debate about regime change through pre-emptive war is reaching a rolling boil...
08/23/2002


Tenure for Terror?
Sami al-Arian is, in a word, despicable...
08/23/2002


It's a Vision Thing
Bush believes that freedom, democracy, and an open society are the aspirations of everyone born into this world...
08/23/2002


Money makes the world go 'round
So much money is wasted by the federal government...
08/23/2002


Bush's ranch hands
Military transformation is shorthand for an emerging series of changes...
08/23/2002


Good riddance
Mr. Al-Arian has been in detention since November 2001...
08/23/2002


Let's keep 9/11 'simplistic'
America's youth need more complex answers than the simplistic fare they've gotten so far...
08/22/2002


The Cruel Calculus
Once we launch any ground attack, many lives may be lost...
08/22/2002


Economic tune-up
The leading economic indicators are pointing to second-half economic growth...
08/22/2002


Global Warming, Global Scepticism
All you ever needed to know about the global warming debate...
08/22/2002


The Communist-Iraqi Fifth Column
The Soviet Union and Iraq were related militarily...
08/22/2002


What Happened in Berlin
There is already a rush to condemn the five brave Iraqi freedom fighters...
08/21/2002


Take Saddam out . . . . or take care?
President George W. Bush told reporters that the public debate over what action to take is "healthy..."
08/21/2002


Observations on the Iraq War Debate
08/21/2002


August Al
The former vice president has barred the press from his keynote speech...
08/21/2002


Side effects of the war on pesticides
The mosquito-transmitted West Nile virus has captured the nation's attention...
08/21/2002


Advice to Bush: Take out Saddam soon
We now have another opportunity to forestall perhaps even worse assaults on our people...
08/20/2002


Uncle Sam wants you...fat
Scientific evidence suggests low-fat, high-starch 'food pyramid' is a sham...
08/20/2002


Donald Trump Buys 15-Hole Golf Course
Lost three holes when part of it slid into the ocean in 1999...
08/20/2002


A dead mouse on the sawdust trail
The most prominent Muslim clerics shout 'bigot!' at anyone who notices the Muslim silence...
08/20/2002


For the NEA, history is farce
08/20/2002


Rumsfeld to the Rescue
The Pentagon chief is a bastion of common sense...
08/20/2002


The enemy has been singled out
Calling a spade a spade, Bush tore away the veil of hypocrisy that colored the world's attitude to Middle Eastern dictators and terrorists...
08/20/2002


What to Do About Iraq
The Iraqi threat is enormous. It gets bigger with every day that passes...
08/20/2002


To Iraq . . . or not to Iraq?
Great strategic endeavors hold immense risks and grave uncertainties...
08/20/2002


The 'doubts' of GOP elders on Iraq attack have been overstated
08/20/2002


Wishful Democratic thinking?
Deep-thinking Democrats have come up with a new theory...
08/20/2002


Multiculturalists are the real racists
There are millions of Muslims in Scandinavia, and four Scandinavians in Syria...
08/20/2002


In Bush Country
A visit to Crawford...
08/19/2002


How Now, Brown Cloud?
Lest anyone think the U.N. has learned anything about its environmental misrepresentations...
08/19/2002


Fast food lawsuits are a trial lawyer's dream
08/19/2002


Democrats worry about Iraq as issue
Debate on war seen as diversion from economy...
08/19/2002


New York Times misrepresents Kissinger on Iraq
A willfully misleading front-page story...
08/19/2002


The Trouble with Tolerance
In defense of simplistic answers...
08/19/2002


The case against war on Iraq
Flagrantly violates both international law and common morality...
08/19/2002


U.S. has reason to attack Saddam
08/19/2002


The case he's making
Why do the president's critics say he hasn't 'made the case' for war in Iraq?
08/19/2002


A Heston to remember
08/19/2002


Buffoons On the Washington Mall
"I don't want to talk about bin Laden....I want to talk about a terrorist called George Washington..."
08/19/2002


Study: Alcohol makes opposite sex appear better-looking
08/19/2002


Media hypes investment jitters
08/19/2002


Are We Owed an Apology?
Muslim leaders remain mute on 9/11...
08/16/2002


Male workers wear skirts to protest ban on shorts
08/16/2002


The Moral Heart of Capitalism
You can't make money without it...
08/16/2002


A woman's work has to be done
It's tough when a good-looking American woman is a bigger, smarter, tougher man than you are...
08/16/2002


So Far, So Good?
Where are all the purported American blunders?
08/16/2002


Coulter stirs up a storm
The following are excerpts from a recent speech given by lecturer, writer and TV pundit Ann Coulter...
08/16/2002


Outta 'Time'
A careful read of the article however reveals that the former administration did little to nothing to stop bin Laden...
08/16/2002


back to top

Rounding out a roster of villains
A toast to fat people...
08/16/2002


The Complainers
Unlike past administrations, the Clintonites won't go away--and they won't stop criticizing President Bush...
08/16/2002


Internet radio station for cats returns to air
08/16/2002


Hollywood's slide into the sewer
Children flooding to movies packaged as family fare but which are anything but that...
08/16/2002


The ghosts of Mogadishu
Every time you think Bill Clinton has sunk low, he surprises you...
08/16/2002


The politics of despair
Betting against the economy and American workers might not seem like a winning game plan...
08/16/2002


Ashcroft overrun by liberals
Gets an 'A' for high-level appointments and an 'F' for the mid-level bureaucracy...
08/15/2002


Mineta's war on what?
Unquestionably has been effective in protecting us from grumpy old men, wisecracking pilots, and lactating mothers...
08/15/2002


The ideological war within the West
it is entirely possible that modernity will witness not the final triumph of liberal democracy...
08/15/2002


Telling the truth isn't torture
Those present later told me that while I was under, I was interrogated...
08/15/2002


So, why is there no 'Jews for Jihad'?
You have got to hand it to the Israeli left...
08/15/2002


Brazil to U.S.: Send money
Taxpayers to get the bill...
08/15/2002


Alien Nation
Relentless drumbeat of anti-American rhetoric from within U.S...
08/15/2002


Waco Double Standards
Bush cconomic summit gets brutal treatment from mainstream media...
08/15/2002


Make Liberals Safe, Legal and Rare
08/15/2002


Terry 'Stonewall' McAuliffe
Investigation of Global Crossing deal can't be avoided much longer...
08/15/2002


War comes closer
Political and philosophical mobilization continues...
08/14/2002


Properly provoked
Iraq fits the bill, and then some...
08/14/2002


With Eyes Wide Open
A strategy for war with Iraq...
08/14/2002


Hot Time in the City
Saddam's war plan unveiled...
08/14/2002


Civil society, PA-style
Apparently all they could agree on was that terrorism is fantastic....
08/14/2002


Pre-election party projections
Professional football is in its pre-season and so is politics...
08/14/2002


What happened at Jenin
Not very strange that many Jews have started to suggest a resurgence of anti-Semitism...
08/14/2002


Hillary aide in bra-zen romp
Thrown out of Ritz-Carlton after stripping down to her bra in the hotel bar...
08/14/2002


Sorry State
State Department is obstructing President Bush's plans to liberate Iraq...
08/14/2002


Terrorists at the gate
Fundamental reforms of PA are needed before return to peace process...
08/14/2002


The Perils of Recycling
It is clear that Gore will continue to beat his populist drum...
08/14/2002


How the nuclear family became controversial
Groups and ideologies denying that it is best for a child to be raised by a father and mother...
08/14/2002


The 'phony war' of sweet summer
Gripe session for the military, Saudi punishment and the pathetic Norman Mineta...
08/13/2002


Introduction to Politics
Everything you already suspected about American politics but thought was too ridiculous to be true...
08/13/2002


Analyze This
Most of the corporate misdeeds happened on Clinton's watch...
08/13/2002


A Scoop Jackson Democrat
Mr. Lieberman deserves commendation...
08/13/2002


First we take Baghdad
What dictator wouldn't be tickled by being 'monitored'?
08/13/2002


America, Be Angry
This is no time to 'get over' Sept. 11...
08/13/2002


Aquarium urged to drop fish from menu
08/13/2002


Big Labor's Enron
Self-dealing benefits union bosses at the expense of workers...
08/13/2002


Doves In Wonderland
Evidence threshold on Iraq is reasonable suspicion...
08/13/2002


Memo to Europe: Grow up on Iraq
Americans are used to Europeans instinctually opposing any use of military force...
08/13/2002


Tell us what you really think, Ann Coulter
The country's hottest conservative tele-pundit and columnist...
08/13/2002


Survey finds 17 million Americans have impersonated Elvis
08/13/2002


When the last taboo is broken
The nuclear threat is back...
08/13/2002


Smart People Believe Weird Things
Education by itself is no paranormal prophylactic...
08/13/2002


Democracy: No Panacea
Tendency of modern democracies to foreswear war against each other stems from some shared quality...
08/13/2002


Tales from the metal detector
Here at the U.S. Transportation Security Administration, we regard these as important victories...
08/13/2002


Senate has 'the slows' on security
Underscores the return to business as usual in Washington...
08/13/2002


'Without Provocation'
Latest slogan of the camp agitating for the appeasement of Saddam Hussein...
08/12/2002


Forgetting 9-11
I wonder if America gets the magnitude of the struggle our civilization is waging...
08/12/2002


Postmodernism kills
The academic frontlines in the war on terror...
08/12/2002


Our Saudi friends, so eager to help
Rarely, if ever, has the straight-shooting Mr. Rumsfeld choked on such argle-bargle...
08/12/2002


Slicing into DLC's tax cut position
If John F. Kennedy could speak to ultraliberal Sen. Paul Wellstone about tax rates and economic growth, what would he tell him?
08/12/2002


Baghdad Is Not Mogadishu
Iraq will be nothing like the Somalia debacle...
08/12/2002


The Clintonistas' economic reality gap
Falsely reported surging profits from the second half of 1998 through the first half of 2000...
08/12/2002


If Mugabe were white, would we let him get away with such brutality?
No one outside Zimbabwe seems to care...
08/12/2002


Shut the Doors
Terrorism-related alien-removal hearings should not be public...
08/12/2002


What's bugging the greens?
Most community leaders are clamoring for their local governments to step up mosquito eradication plans...
08/12/2002


Bats in the Saudi belfry
Invading Saudi Arabia to secure its oil fields could trigger Milton's whirlwinds of tempestuous fire...
08/12/2002


It's not Iraq the U.S. needs to worry about
The correct answer: North Korea...
08/12/2002


It's the money, stupid
First principle of politics is to never give up a dollar once it is in your hand...
08/12/2002


Cheney and the CEOs
It's open season on VP...
08/09/2002


Jousting with Rumsfeld
"You know that you're in the Pentagon, not the White House, don't you, Clarence?"
08/09/2002


Ich Bin Ein Slacker
The demise of the German work ethic...
08/09/2002


Fried Twinkies will be the newest dessert at the State Fair
Too good to pass up...
08/09/2002


A Summit of Sorts
U.S. and Iraq. State and Defense....
08/09/2002


Scowcroft's cloudy crystal ball
Destroy the war on terror?
08/09/2002


Selig is out in left field
08/09/2002


Hollywood goes La-La
Nobody will bring himself to mouth the words that accurately describe the pernicious threat we face now...
08/09/2002


Yasser Arafat: Nazi trained
President Bush is right...
08/09/2002


If it's April, it must be Gurbansoltan for Turkmens
Eccentric president has suggested renaming the 12 months of the year after himself, his mother and other national heroes...
08/09/2002


The AOL Time Warner debacle
In the annals of American business history, it is difficult to imagine a more lopsided, wealth-destroying merger...
08/08/2002


Study finds urban birds prefer rich neighbourhoods
08/08/2002


Mail me the money!
The solution is to spam is to put a price on your mailbox...
08/08/2002


Saddam may be using inspection moves to avert attack
Making it harder for the Bush administration to make the case for a military invasion...
08/08/2002


The GOP's pro-investor lifeline
If the Republican Party suffers this fall, the unexpected stock-market plunge will be why...
08/08/2002


'I tracked Iraq's biological weapons'
"It was like looking for a needle in a haystack..."
08/08/2002


Transvestite Sues Beauty School over Rejection
08/08/2002


Knave of Torts
Bogus believes the current tort system is just fine...
08/08/2002


Albino gopher a trophy catch
Jim Carrigan knew he'd spotted something special as soon as he laid eyes on the critter...
08/08/2002


A casualty of cowardice
The persistence of the terrorist danger is a result of our government's failure to act on the evidence it already has...
08/08/2002


Fat Content
As far as fat in your diet goes, the iron taboo is showing tentative signs of easing....
08/08/2002


Leahy-Kennedy cabal handcuffs FBI, CIA
Congressional investigators discovered they risked exposing the harm they themselves had done...
08/08/2002


Very special operations
The unruly teen-ager is now a grown-up member of the family of U.S. forces...
08/07/2002


Will They Kill?
Democrats appear ready to snuff out a high-profile judicial nomination....
08/07/2002


Truth be told
The parenthetical clause known in the journalism trade as the Full Disclosure....
08/07/2002


Goldberg file: Don’t Play with Fire
What's so cool about people who 'do their own thing'?
08/07/2002


Saddam’s Newest Playmate
A deadly alliance with Syria...
08/07/2002


Hiroshima and Baghdad
Diagrams reveal Japan may have been within days of testing its own atomic bomb...
08/07/2002


It didn't start in September
We must remember another date that will live in infamy: Aug. 7, 1998...
08/07/2002


Tipples, trenches and tilts to the Left
A week of hilarity in politics...
08/07/2002


He Can't Handle the Truth
Clinton talks so tough now primarily because he acted so weakly then -- when it really counted...
08/07/2002


Man Puts Curse on Sewer System
08/07/2002


R.I.P. to the SUV?
08/07/2002


The deafening silence about the death of an affirmative action 'hero'
Dr. Patrick Chavis is dead...
08/07/2002


Blocking a new axis of evil
Cuba, Venezuela, Brazil...
08/07/2002


The grim summer of abducted children
California has turned this terror into a safety ritual...
08/06/2002


American Tragedy as Spin
Current issue of Time infuriatingly insulting to every American...
08/06/2002


Beware of High-Fat 'Victims'
Parasitic Lawyers Exploit Obesity...
08/06/2002


Sore Loserman
Al Gore’s classlessness....
08/06/2002


Airport security fiascoes
We are not trying to avoid being set upon by the Mongol hordes of Genghis Khan...
08/06/2002


True Love Waits
If you are having a tough time deciding whether to dump a stock you own, don't despair...
08/06/2002


Imus grills Lieberman
"I wish you were here so I could get my hands around your neck..."
08/06/2002


For Al Gore: a question of ethics
He now brazenly questions the ethics of George W. Bush?
08/06/2002


First Strike
Four bad reasons to attack Iraq, and one good one...
08/05/2002


Timber Tom the Hypocrite
What's good for South Dakota is apparently not good for the rest of the country...
08/05/2002


Gore v. Bush
The former vice president attacks, and the people don’t believe him...
08/05/2002


Fantasy Reporting on Iran
The latest disinformation from the Washington Post....
08/05/2002


The Worm Turns on Sixties' Paradigm
What we started to learn as the years passed was that most of the Nurse Ratcheds were now on the left...
08/05/2002


Save the Investors — and Yourselves
Some political/economic advice for the GOP...
08/05/2002


Sharon Stalls Coup de Grace for Arafat's Terror Command
What is Sharon waiting for?
08/05/2002


No Trophies for Terrorists
Israel should keep cameras away from scenes of carnage...
08/05/2002


Mr. Magoo vs. the terrorists
Target Corporation has better information systems to track socks...
08/05/2002


Prosecute Them!
Bush administration leaves bad deeds unpunished...
08/05/2002


Daschle's Declining Senate
As a reporter who covered the Johnson Senate, I can attest it bears little resemblance to the Daschle Senate...
08/05/2002


DLC attitude ambush
Angry leaders ganged up on Al Gore...
08/05/2002


How to fix AOL
08/05/2002


Shame not name of golfers' game
None of the players showed up in the locker room on Thursday with a piercing or a posse...
08/02/2002


World's Greatest Job, Up for Grabs
Calling all chocoholics....
08/02/2002


Indian scientist blames failure of monsoon on US warplanes
08/02/2002


The road to Baghdad: Get a map right here
When the lies fly so thick that every new one contradicts all the others, how can Saddam be sure which lie to disregard?
08/02/2002


Pencil in Iraq for this August
Poor old Saddam, who'd wanted to spend this summer on his fourth romantic novel...
08/02/2002


White House puts UN on notice
Years of treating Israel as a whipping boy are over...
08/02/2002


Communists, Peace-Mongering Journalists, and Other Abominations
Andrew Sullivan on Anti-War Obfuscations, Neo-Pacifists Prepared To Spill Blood, and More
08/02/2002


'Nerd chic'
Every age requires its oracles...
08/02/2002


In Europe, talk is cheap
If we can just talk things through, the way we do over cucumber regulations, everything will be fine...
08/02/2002


Culture of Hate
A racism which denies the history and sufferings of its victims....
08/02/2002


The economy Bush inherited
08/02/2002


On Being Disliked
It’s an America thing....
08/02/2002


Bubba: I'd fight and die for Israel
08/02/2002


Global-Warming Nonsense
An economics journal publishes junk...
08/02/2002


Slay the AOL monster
The key to the liberal victory in the 60's was their control of the media...
08/02/2002


Putting the needs of the unions before America's
08/02/2002


America's plan to invade Iraq is just a giant bluff
The whole edifice rests on the premise, more readily accepted in Europe, that Bush is a gun-toting bully...
08/01/2002


Let's take him out
The prospect of war against Iraq has provided a field day to anti-Americanism...
08/01/2002


Greens the driving force in California politics
Gov. Davis has signed into law a remedy for a phantom problem...
08/01/2002


Hamas to Jews: Get out or Die
Violence in the Middle East seems to have increased when local economic conditions were improving, not getting worse...
08/01/2002


The European 'Miracle'
Cheesy diplomacy and its admirers....
08/01/2002


Bush on the skids? Its all a load of baloney
He has made a career out of being underestimated...
08/01/2002


Torricelli, Daschle and Senate ethics
It should hardly come as a surprise that Mr. Daschle would seek to discredit the charges...
08/01/2002


How the British maximize crime
Disarmed public now faces outlaws armed with machine-guns...
08/01/2002


Did someone try to jump in to help save the men?
What matters is how they came to be beaten to death after crash....
08/01/2002


Berkeley goes for breast-feeding record
It doesn't rank with the Tour de France or World Cup just yet...
08/01/2002


He's dead
The media are overlooking an obvious story and a momentous one...
08/01/2002


Sizing up the Iraq war scenario
Military victory is not enough...
08/01/2002


Egypt shows true colours
The jailing of a prominent Egyptian civil rights campaigner has drawn strong condemnation from the US...
08/01/2002


Working for the Poor from Malibu to East Hampton with Citizen Gore
Outrage of ordinary Americans against a small band of Democratic royalists was pointedly ignored in news accounts...
08/01/2002


The Anti-U.S. Tide Turns
Knowing that we are living in a hinge moment in history, Bush has already taken four radical and risky actions...
07/31/2002


Lab tricks show dogs can count
07/31/2002


Invasion of Iraq is overdue
Democratizing Iraq would benefit world while subverting crapulent tyrannies of the region...
07/31/2002


Who are the rich?
And why do the Democrats want you to hate them so much?
07/31/2002


Terrorized by Numbers
Since most Israelis serve in the Israeli military it is easy to call an Israeli fatality a 'soldier'...
07/31/2002


Sen. Lieberman's minute is up
In Nov. 8 phone call, Mr. Rubin beseeched Mr. Fisher to lobby the credit-rating agencies on behalf of Enron....
07/31/2002


What or who is 'the market?'
If we're going to straighten out this market guy, we should start first by identifying him...
07/31/2002


The Happiest Warrior
Milton Friedman's career has been a case study in the thrill and challenge of taking on the conventional wisdom...
07/31/2002


The Times' Anti-War Crusade
The New York Times reports that an attack on Iraq would be devastating for the economy...
07/31/2002


How Weblogs Keep the Media Honest
07/31/2002


Leaks or disinformation?
Hard to accept that generals and admirals are capable of so wantonly undercutting their commander in chief...
07/31/2002


Whither The Democrats' Plantation?
Factors working against Democratic Party dominance
07/31/2002


People in China seek tongue operations to improve their English
07/31/2002


Those who curse the Jews and those who bless them
07/31/2002


Baby-wielding shoplifter
07/31/2002


Springsteen Rising
Amazingly complex portrait of Sept. 11 and its aftermath....
07/31/2002


Method Without Madness?
Suicide bombers are not deranged, psychiatrists say....
07/31/2002


Dems love for big lawyers: Big opportunity
Republicans have the facts on their side and should be relentless in deploying them...
07/30/2002


Fundamentally unsound
Left Behind, the bestselling series of paranoid, pro-Israel end-time thrillers...
07/30/2002


Old-time religion at bottom of the mine
'Miracle' was a word that even the irreligious were tempted to employ...
07/30/2002


Practicing Intellectual Virtue
Back to some basics: Listening, honesty, humility, self-restraint...
07/30/2002


The Jihad Online
Mouse clicking your way to martyrdom...
07/30/2002


Why the public is sticking with Bush
07/30/2002


Lieberman's continuing stonewall
Refuses to review Rubin's efforts to save Enron credit rating...
07/30/2002


New York Times vs. the War
Here's the classic editorial paragraph stuffed into a news non-story:
07/30/2002


You Gotta (Dis)Believe
This November a new lobby will be born as atheists unite with the Godless Americans March on Washington...
07/30/2002


Fifth Column Mouthpiece
Using the American legal system to advance an anti-American, pro-terrorist, political agenda...
07/30/2002


Islam not inherently evil, but present era is one of its worst
07/30/2002


Restaurant owner offers dog meat for the microwave
07/30/2002


Evil under the sun
It’s nearly too late to save Zimbabwe...
07/30/2002


Selling arrows to the Indians
ABM system that Messrs. Bush and Putin should consider for all our allies...
07/30/2002


China doesn't understand the war on terrorism
PLA does not like to be ignored...
07/30/2002


Sharon serves notice: Two can play at terror
07/30/2002


Gore’s Space-Time Problem
Repeat after me: "A then B then C..."
07/29/2002


Miners' plight show us we have the easy life
07/29/2002


Lieberman vs. the Miners
Put saving the environment over saving lives...
07/29/2002


Bush not as vulnerable as Democrats perceive
"He's doing what he ought to be doing..."
07/29/2002


Robert Rubin's role
Why was he so obsessed with Enron's credit rating?
07/29/2002


The Conservative Capital of the World
Somerset, PA: UA flight #93 and 'miracle at the mine'
07/29/2002


Torricelli whitewash in the works?
Mr. Inouye wants to conclude the case after testimony from one witness — Mr. Torricelli
07/29/2002


A bone to pick: Missing link is evolutionists' weakest
07/29/2002


European paradoxes
Gulf in understanding between America and European friends seems to be widening...
07/29/2002


Psychological fluctuations
Market fell sharply in 1987 and 1998 without any meaningful impact on the real economy....
07/29/2002


Patriotism Litmus Test
The more negative your view of America, the more positive your view of the United Nations...
07/26/2002


The Enron Cover-up Widens
Senate Dems play favorites...
07/26/2002


Enjoy the 'scandal' while you can, lads
The butt stops here...
07/26/2002


Bare-handed hippo buster
Hippo knocked down his wife and started mauling her...
07/26/2002


What are liberals upset about?
It's a little late to pretend they care about ethics in the White House...
07/26/2002


Goose falls in love with outboard motor; guards ferociously
07/26/2002


Stop Saddam from going nuclear
07/26/2002


Woman sues Delta Airlines for embarrassing her over vibrating sex toy
07/26/2002


Why Israel Had to Kill Hamas Sheik Salah Shehadeh
07/26/2002


The tale of grief, as told in two cities
Palestinians routinely target women and children, and when they routinely kill a dozen or so they routinely gloat. There was no gloating to Jehovah in Jerusalem...
07/26/2002


It's the economy, stupid
Unprofitable companies must die eventually - it is a law of the universe....
07/26/2002


No-respect politics
Conservatives think liberals are stupid. Liberals think conservatives are evil.
07/26/2002


Questions for Rubin on Enron
Perhaps nobody understood better how crucial its credit rating was...
07/26/2002


Killer Cowards
Where was the UN outrage when Israelis were mourning their dead children?
07/26/2002


Clear and present dangers in Pakistan
A none-too-quiet front in the war on terror could open if India and Pakistan continue their combustible face-off...
07/26/2002


Only time will tell
Few speeches in recent memory have been so extensively analyzed, discussed and dissected as President Bush's on the Middle East...
07/26/2002


Dashle has seen the light
People - specifically, people who live and vote in his home state of South Dakota - must come before plant life.
07/26/2002


Why no one seems to want Osama
Logistical and political problems in tracking him down...
07/25/2002


AOL-Time Warner merger was doomed from the start
Steve Case understood that his run was over and that it was time to trade in his stock certificates for those of a company that had genuine assets...
07/25/2002


The Invisible Robert Rubin
He's in Citigroup's upper management. Why don't the scandal stories say so?
07/25/2002


Say Goodbye to SUVs
California makes it official....
07/25/2002


Setting the record straight about Bush and Utimco
Point-by-point rebuttal of Krugman's assertions by former chancellor...
07/25/2002


Updating the political scorecard
Justice Department action would rob the Democrats of campaign issue...
07/25/2002


The Facts About Cheney and Halliburton
The vice president has a strong defense...
07/25/2002


Inactivists Manifesto Says Let History Come to You
Slacking: It's not just for kids...
07/25/2002


Pope John Paul II in Canada
The pontiff's flesh is weak, but the spirit is clearly willing — and sometimes it conquers...
07/25/2002


Raving Lunacy
How can we trust our government to spot terrorists when it thinks that glow-sticks are items of 'drug paraphernalia?'
07/25/2002


A lawless culture thrives unchecked in city
The sick season of stealing little girls has come to our town....
07/25/2002


Don't tar all Islam with gang-rape brush
Gang rape is nothing new to Australia...
07/25/2002


Rotary lunch nearly ends in a brawl
A visitor's questions to attorney general about district's WTC fund lead to a shoving match...
07/25/2002


Man booked with DWI after playing `chicken' with train
07/25/2002


Dead pigs fly from truck, almost hit minivan
07/25/2002


Fat chance: food cops are closing in
According to these criteria, I am heavy enough to bend light...
07/24/2002


Chicken Little, Redux
The world would be far more dangerous, even than it is today, had the fear-mongering conventional wisdom prevailed in nine major instances...
07/24/2002


I came. I saw. I ate.
Seeking out the lonely, the neglected, the unnoticed Fancy Foods of the world...
07/24/2002


Toxic Green
'Organic' celery is far more cancer-causing than the cheaper, unblemished celery bunches at the giant supermarket...
07/24/2002


Big deficit? Blame Congress
The irresponsibility astounds...
07/24/2002


Ominous economic rumbling
President Bush should act immediately...
07/24/2002


Dog jumps ship and swims ten miles to shore
07/24/2002


Liberals continue war on Bush nominees
07/24/2002


Sunny Cali-fear-nia
Alleged catastrophic effects due to man-made greenhouse gases...
07/24/2002


Keep the Tax Cut
Establishment liberals are calling for President Bush to end the tax cut. For a variety of reasons, he should ignore them...
07/24/2002


Reality blurred by star-spangled politics
A sad indictment of a society where compassion is dependent upon the right aesthetics rather than ideals...
07/24/2002


Do Have a Nice Day
Mr. Iverson, you are a fine man and a role model to our nation's youth...
07/24/2002


What did Rubin know?
The same Rubin who has the gall to demand a change of course in the current administration...
07/24/2002


Welcome to the big leagues, Al
Sharpton's embarrassment over the tape is understandable...
07/24/2002


With adoption plan, Bush adopts a Clinton tactic
Touching people in their homes and neighborhoods...
07/24/2002


Reckless Reporting?
Loose lips in times of war...
07/23/2002


Cease aid to terrorist regime
Continued funding from the United States allows Arafat to further his murderous cause...
07/23/2002


Joe Lieberman’s Cover-Up
Why isn't Robert Rubin at the hearings?
07/23/2002


Board room ties with terrorism
300 U.S. and international companies with ties to terrorist-sponsoring states...
07/23/2002


Operation TIPS: Give it a chance
Simple knowledge that TIPS is under way may deter terrorists...
07/23/2002


NEA conventioneers plot anti-voucher action
Principal goal is to expand jobs that produce dues to the teachers union...
07/23/2002


Bush has struck gold
Patricia Owen’s leadership in the Texas judiciary...
07/23/2002


Delay — Then Kill
Democrats go after another Bush judge...
07/23/2002


On Defense
Where’s the money?
07/23/2002


How to cook your books like the big guys
07/22/2002


Who kidnapped my president?
For lack of a better name, we'll just call this wannabe president 'Teddy'
07/22/2002


America reaps the fruit of European impotence
EU’s latest humiliation due to European Commission’s blunders during the early days of Spain-Morocco crisis...
07/22/2002


Tour de Force
Lance Armstrong is about to win his fourth Tour de France, which, in case you didn't realize it, is a very big deal...
07/22/2002


Anti-Semitism in the states
It has never died away in this nation...
07/22/2002


California Cops
On the job in Southern Cal...
07/22/2002


Clinton-Gore: See no evil
A corporate scandal timeline...
07/22/2002


The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
Two new reports shed light on China today...
07/22/2002


Amendment: Separation of atheism and state
America’s cultural struggle may take many forms, but at its heart, it’s about God...
07/22/2002


Visa Express, History
The program is finally shut down....
07/22/2002


The next step against smallpox
Americans must be able to choose for themselves whether to receive the vaccine...
07/22/2002


Do Democrats really want to play the integrity card?
Must hope voters have amnesia...
07/22/2002


The More Things Stay the Same
Government subsidized Anti-American types lash out at their critics...
07/22/2002


Search is on for nicer shop customers
Bonuses paid for courtesy...
07/22/2002


Are We Serious About Preventing Armageddon?
30 or so small asteroids hit the earth's upper atmosphere every year...
07/22/2002


Firefighters rescue girl trapped in computer scanner
07/22/2002


The Democrats' Perry Mason
Trial lawyer being groomed to run against Bush...
07/22/2002


Bring on Gore!
The Dems’ Bob Dole...
07/19/2002


The dignity of difference
The presence of religion has been particularly acute in conflict zones...
07/19/2002


Decision Day in the House
Visa power comes to a committee vote...
07/19/2002


Larry Lindsey is right on the mark
1990's abuses "represented breakdown in the basic ethics of the individuals involved..."
07/19/2002


The Parable of the Weed
Attacking terrorism at its roots...
07/19/2002


The end is nigh for Iran regime
Bush delivered his most under-reported speech last Friday...
07/19/2002


Saudi Opposition Sheikhs on America, Bin Laden, and Jihad
The American way can be discerned and defined in one word: war
07/19/2002


Parsley And Pride
You half expected Peter Sellers, dressed in drag, to be leading the Spanish invasion...
07/19/2002


Stereotyping and the Decline of Common Sense
Ludicrous premise that the propensity to carry out acts of terrorism are randomly distributed in the American population...
07/19/2002


'I love to pick fights with liberals'
Coulter's approach is not so much take no prisoners as capture one's opponents...
07/19/2002


All the Hate That's Fit to Print
America's poison-pen Muslim press...
07/19/2002


Keeping the Children Safe
Even the