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NEWS ARCHIVE - OPINION AND ODDITIES
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Cal Thomas: Media blindside in hindsight 09/30/2005 Dealing with Hamas After the Gaza disengagement, a test for EU-Israeli relations... 09/30/2005 The Bomb-Blowing Heroes of Iraq In a war in which most coalition casualties are caused by improvised explosive devices (IEDs), no unit is more... 09/30/2005 End the Race Party Identity politics will get the GOP nothing good... 09/30/2005 Serenity Now Joss Whedon's space-Western moves from television to the big screen... 09/30/2005 DeLay's deluge 09/30/2005 'Traveler' test has promise, so why stop it now? Program works, but there's room for improvement... 09/30/2005 After further review Eddie Compass' resignation, Ashley Smith's book, Don Adams... 09/30/2005 Obseqiousness toward Putin Bush's deferential posture... 09/30/2005 The DeLay indictment In the medium and long-term, the significance of the DeLay indictment has less to do with the particulars of the case than with the possibility that it could wreck the Republican legislative agenda... 09/30/2005 Cal Thomas: Media blindside in hindsight 09/29/2005 Phantom Acrylamide Menace Are you at risk for the Big C? No. 09/29/2005 Call in the Cavalry? Not So Fast Austin Bay on the plusses and minuses of using the military for disaster relief... 09/29/2005 A Working, Democratic Iraq Don't stall; roll with it... 09/29/2005 Rock the Dubya The last refuge of aging hipsters... 09/29/2005 Reporting Katrina Why so many journalists painted an exaggerated picture of the situation in New Orleans... 09/29/2005 Gulf rebuilding needs patience and haste 09/29/2005 Endangered Species Act gets listed 09/29/2005 Prosecutor nails 'Hammer,' adding to GOP ethics woes 09/29/2005 The threat of avian flu U.S. needs an action plan — and needs it now... 09/29/2005 Rebuilding the Gulf Coast A chance to reform telecom, re-energize high-tech industry... 09/29/2005 Saudi Arabia: Still the Face of the Devil Why Saudi claims to have turned against terrorism continue to ring hollow... 09/28/2005 World Wide (Web) Takeover The United Nations wants the Internet... 09/28/2005 Deadly Assumptions: Radiation and Risk Did bad science feed Chernobyl hysteria?... 09/28/2005 Osama, Fallen Star Crix nix Qaeda pix... 09/28/2005 'No' to Islamist Turkey Why Europe must firmly reject Turkey's bid to seek full membership in the EU... 09/28/2005 Sharia Scare in Canada Can religious and civil codes coexist?... 09/28/2005 Future Shock What's in store for tomorrow's geopolitics?... 09/28/2005 Niger's Famine: Another Green Debacle How green alarmists pushed a treaty that helped to spawn mass death in Africa... 09/28/2005 Pork-Barrel Republicans The problem is on the congressional right... 09/28/2005 Cal Thomas: A prophecy fulfilled 09/27/2005 George Will: Sen. Feinstein's sensitivity sweepstakes 09/27/2005 Where the Boys Aren't What is going on with the higher education gender imbalance? 09/27/2005 Time to Bring Back a Miracle Drug? Relief for MS sufferers may once again be on the way... 09/27/2005 Hurricane of Spending How will Congress deal with Katrina? 09/27/2005 "God Fearing" Dartmouth Ivy overreaction... 09/27/2005 Certain Uncertainty The economic difference between confusion, fear, and panic... 09/27/2005 Her home is her cottage Susette Kelo, who took the right to keep her pink cottage in New London, Conn., all the way to the US Supreme Court, has sparked a new cottage industry in the protection of property rights... 09/27/2005 Will storms jolt Congress into financial sanity? 09/27/2005 Thwarting 'Eurabia' Save Europe from itself... 09/27/2005 Revise the tax law Look at personal consumption... 09/27/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Benefit of the doubt 09/26/2005 George Will: Justice Supreme 09/26/2005 A Case for Immigration Why aren't the immigration laws enforced? 09/26/2005 Millennium Development Holes 09/26/2005 The Suicide Ethos Regulations were not the reason Able Danger intelligence was purged... 09/26/2005 A Taft Too Far Ohio may be the next Florida... 09/26/2005 March of the Conspiracy Theorists America's nuts make the long journey to Washington... 09/26/2005 Target practice for a soldier's mom 09/26/2005 Congress, heal thyself New restrictions may be what the doctor ordered... 09/26/2005 An asbestos bust Could the Senate's asbestos-trust-fund proposal eventually cost taxpayers tens or even hundreds of billions of dollars? 09/26/2005 Republicans will defend taxpayers DeLay says GOP is fiscally responsible... 09/26/2005 The Matter with Kansas Can Be Understood at Woolworth's Perhaps one day the critics of Middle America will begin to recognize the humanity they share with people they so quickly label as culturally backwards... 09/23/2005 The Technorati Candidate The blogosphere attempts to elect one of its own... 09/23/2005 Katrina Costs Justify Cutting Amtrak All aboard for fiscal sanity... 09/23/2005 Unhappy Warrior When did running things stop being fun? 09/23/2005 Iran Bubbles Over Our enemy is still there... 09/23/2005 Sunrise in Tokyo What Prime Minister Koizumi's big win means for Japan and the United States... 09/23/2005 Driving 55 m.p.h. is looking pretty good The hurricane disruption of Gulf Coast oil and gas supplies should force Americans to rethink their concept of energy security, from new sources to new lifestyles... 09/23/2005 Excusify me, but is 'refugeed' a verb? Shortly after Katrina slammed into New Orleans, a radio announcer described the plight of residents "refugeed" to other areas... 09/23/2005 New storm, new problems, new lessons to learn 09/23/2005 Heed the new health-care crisis But don't nationalize the system... 09/23/2005 Nationalism and democracy Points of departure in East Asia... 09/23/2005 Democrats try to get back in the game 09/22/2005 Ahnold's drifting audience 09/22/2005 Encourage Supply: A Cure for the Public's Anger What to do about energy costs... 09/22/2005 No Deal With NoKo Has the North Korean regime made a fundamental change of heart regarding its pursuit of nuclear arms? 09/22/2005 Detainee Details Accountability and progress... 09/22/2005 Bush salutes Helms, &c. 09/22/2005 Does increasing democracy undercut terrorists? Some analysts are skeptical... 09/22/2005 North Korea's capitalist manifesto A predictable master of surprise, North Korea stunned the world Monday by agreeing to give up its nuclear weapons program... 09/22/2005 A legacy moment for Bush It is incumbent upon President Bush to use his second nomination to the high court to name an unabashed conservative whose confirmation by the Republican-controlled Senate would guarantee a rightward shift... 09/22/2005 Leftward Dems Obstructionism reigns supreme... 09/22/2005 Confessions of an Engineering Washout I am an engineering washout. Hear my story, and learn why the United States lacks engineers... 09/21/2005 Is This the Right Way to Return to the Moon? NASA has come out with a more detailed presentation of what they have in mind... 09/21/2005 On the Right Path If you stop and take a look for a moment, Department of Homeland Security is actually on the right path... 09/21/2005 Off Course Is Rita homophobic? 09/21/2005 Some Did Their Duty Others stayed home and stayed dry... 09/21/2005 The Sound and the Fury How John Roberts drove the Senate Democrats nuts... 09/21/2005 Facing up to Germany's fears 09/21/2005 US, UN find common ground 09/21/2005 The voice of 6 million Remembering Simon Wiesenthal... 09/21/2005 Building a new New Orleans Private sector leadership needed... 09/21/2005 Cal Thomas: Media misleads with Katrina message 09/20/2005 The Millennium Sham A skeptical look at the Millennium Development Goals. John Luik with the first of a two-part series... 09/20/2005 Poverty and Governance: Two Sides of the Same Coin The disconnect at the heart of the recent Clinton summit... 09/20/2005 The Impossibility of 'Planned Improvisation' The first of a two-part essay on the trade-off between planning and improvisation and its implications for the conduct... 09/20/2005 From Hegel to Wilson to Breyer Liberal constitutional theory returns to its foreign roots... 09/20/2005 Flying the Bankrupt Skies The deregulation of the airline industry reaches its final stages as the legacy carriers falter... 09/20/2005 Government failure, private success 09/20/2005 Bush's missing trade mark 09/20/2005 'Wonderful step' in Korea? New agreement is better than nothing... 09/20/2005 Probing Able Danger Tomorrow's Senate Judiciary Committee hearing on the Pentagon's top-secret military intelligence unit known as Able Danger should be quite a show... 09/20/2005 Flat-tax primer It just makes good sense... 09/20/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Poor behavior 09/19/2005 Will Katrina Impoverish the Nation? With apologies to Newton, every catastrophic action leads to a massive political and economic overreaction... 09/19/2005 Bell Bottom Blues Close your eyes -- to ignore the fashion differences -- and you'd swear you were in the '70s... 09/19/2005 The Music Men Innovation and tradition in New Orleans... 09/19/2005 Clarifying "Extremism" It's more than just politics... 09/19/2005 Expanding Rights vs. Protecting Rights Why the judicial branch should not be deciding our culture wars... 09/19/2005 College textbook prices are unfair and unnecessary 09/19/2005 John Roberts, the progressive 09/19/2005 For airlines, bankruptcy becomes business as usual 09/19/2005 McCain's anti-torture amendments Senate must take a stand on treatment of prisoners... 09/19/2005 George Will: Striking against irrelevancy 09/16/2005 Our Rock of Sisyphus How goes our hard labor in Iraq? 09/16/2005 While We Quake Over Katrina... ...we should brush up on our history. 09/16/2005 Terrorism's New Operating System Reforming our thinking... 09/16/2005 The President from New Orleans A scorecard... 09/16/2005 The President from New Orleans A scorecard... 09/16/2005 UN control of internet? Try again. A UN advisory group has produced a report advocating some international control of the Internet... 09/16/2005 What tints your cultural lens on racial issues? Sometimes it seems that we are so far apart - as if African-Americans and white Americans live next to one another in starkly different worlds... 09/16/2005 Umpiring the Constitution Senators lecture Roberts on role of judges.... 09/16/2005 German-American relations Election fallout... 09/16/2005 Cal Thomas: Roberts rules 09/15/2005 George Will: The Technology War Escalates Everything in war is simple, but the simplest thing is difficult... 09/15/2005 Little Guys Get Some Love How a new independent analyst company could help small firms... 09/15/2005 FEMA to the Rescue The essentials prep work... 09/15/2005 Incendiary Device Fiction that is all too real... 09/15/2005 United nations to the rescue (of itself) This week, on the UN's 60th anniversary, world leaders met to endorse a new statement of common aims... 09/15/2005 Civil society transcends right-left gap How will current US social and political trends - amid the rise of the right - affect the world in the decades ahead? 09/15/2005 Fence off Internet porn It can be deeply offensive. And for children, it can be damaging... 09/15/2005 Bush switches U.N. tone, but will it help Iraq in time? 09/15/2005 Spiritual reckoning? Democrats try to court religious voters... 09/15/2005 Ultimate Environmentalism It's the forward-looking technos, not the backward-looking greens, who will literally immortalize the environment... 09/14/2005 Hey, Maybe the Singularity Really Is Near We're living in a future that not long ago would have looked science fictional... 09/14/2005 When to Sell a Stock? Answering the toughest question in all investing... 09/14/2005 Hurricane Hysterics A message to Europe about Katrina... 09/14/2005 Jesus Isn't a Pig Newsflash to PETA... 09/14/2005 Taking a Grandstand Day two of the Roberts hearing is full of speechifying senators--with a question or two thrown in for good measure... 09/14/2005 The Red and the Black . . . and the Yellow and the Green and the Really, Really Red: Germany's parties scramble for power. 09/14/2005 How much to rebuild after Katrina? 09/14/2005 After the storm, reflection Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath brought an unusual volume of commentary submissions to the Monitor. Here are excerpts from some... 09/14/2005 But for the U.S. and its allies A new Iraq at the threshold of democracy... 09/14/2005 Cal Thomas: Karen Hughes' impossible job 09/13/2005 George Will: A poverty of thought 09/13/2005 How to Rebuild a Great City Making it work while retaining its spirit of mystery, absurdity, beauty and decadence... 09/13/2005 Powers of Mind Hidden talents and tradeoffs in the human brain... 09/13/2005 Religious Tests Where some Dems want to go, but shouldn't... 09/13/2005 Lunch with Mitt The Massachusetts governor stumps in Manhattan... 09/13/2005 Notes from the Confirmation The first day of hearings on John Roberts foretell a coming debate on the meaning of the Constitution... 09/13/2005 Japan's leap to be a 'normal' nation Prepare now for an assertive Japan - as an equal to ally US and foil to China... 09/13/2005 Parameters on using troops In the wake of the Katrina catastrophe, considerable attention has focused on the potential and actual roles of active-duty military forces... 09/13/2005 Scandalous U.N. Hear, see and speak of no reforms... 09/13/2005 Fund the lifesavers More than 135,000 public-school-age children in Louisiana were displaced by Hurricane Katrina; another 5,200 students attended private and religious schools... 09/13/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Katrina and the poor 09/12/2005 A Challenge for Brad DeLong The Berkeley economics professor is fond of a kind of Intelligent Design. Why? 09/12/2005 Imperium Americanum? Hardly. The Empirical Empire Test can help us figure out what is and isn't an "empire." 09/12/2005 The Roberts Hearing A preview of coming detractions... 09/12/2005 Alliance for Justice 09/12/2005 Thirty Days Hath September Another Pleasant Valley Sunday... 09/12/2005 America's underclass exposed Pockets of poverty in the US are relatively small - but New Orleans shows history's repeated negligence... 09/12/2005 Nibbles of democracy on the Nile Last week, the largest Arab nation, Egypt, held its first multiparty presidential election, a very limited one, on its leader's own terms. Guess what? Three of four Egyptians didn't vote... 09/12/2005 Four years later, Katrina casts 9/11 in a new light 09/12/2005 Echoes of a Reagan romance The lady wants to be a friend of the Americans... 09/12/2005 Katrina and the Political Waves Whenever a free people bestow extraordinary discretionary powers on their leaders, they do so not to lessen their civic freedom, but to secure their safety in a time of peril... 09/09/2005 California's New Orleans There's a grave need to protect Long Beach... 09/09/2005 California's Congressional Pests Some members of Congress are the worst pests of all... 09/09/2005 Into the Maelstrom Katrina is not 9/11... 09/09/2005 Flying Blind The last thing Louisiana needs right now is mosquitoes... 09/09/2005 Punch Drunk The NHL is letting Todd Bertuzzi get off way too easy... 09/09/2005 US-European freedom train While President Bush has staked America's safety on establishing democracy in Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East, Europeans care more about government promotion of democracy in countries than Americans do... 09/09/2005 American crisis of confidence We are learning the hard way about the costs of stinting on infrastructure to pay for tax cuts and the war in Iraq... 09/09/2005 Heroes come in all ages The hurricane has brought out the best in many Americans... 09/09/2005 No longer out of sight Chance for an effective war on poverty... 09/09/2005 The flawed alternatives Combatants are not ordinary criminals... 09/09/2005 Katrina: The aftermath and the politics 09/08/2005 Some Questions For the Nominee 09/08/2005 The Invisible Helping Hand Stephen Bainbridge says outsourcing can address a longstanding problem with bipartisan credentials... 09/08/2005 The State of Nature in New Orleans: What Hobbes Didn't Know Reason is not enough to make the strong and the ruthless renounce their natural mastery over the weak and frail... 09/08/2005 Greens vs. Levees Destructive river-management philosophy... 09/08/2005 Desperate & Incarcerated Katrina's prison toll... 09/08/2005 DD(Rex) The Navy's newest destroyer brings stealth to the high seas--and may mark the return of the gun to naval combat... 09/08/2005 To Katrina's windbags: It's too soon for finger-pointing 09/08/2005 Fighting limits to heartfelt giving 09/08/2005 Exposed by Katrina, FEMA's flaws were years in making 09/08/2005 Illusions of a 'Paper Moon' Death, desire and a will to survive in New Orleans... 09/08/2005 Cal Thomas: Bush's Supreme opportunity 09/07/2005 George Will: An 'Activist' Justice 09/07/2005 Failed State The U.S. cannot long survive with a government that does not appreciate, and execute, its fundamental obligations... 09/07/2005 Bad Bets Vaclav Smil looks at the lessons from Katrina that will be ignored... 09/07/2005 A Fuller Picture Beginning to understand what we are seeing in New Orleans... 09/07/2005 Momma Mia! A mother lode of nonsense about women... 09/07/2005 Hollywood's Great Constant What the critical reaction to "The Great Raid" and "The Constant Gardener" tells us about the film industry's relationship with reality... 09/07/2005 Nature's squeeze - man's response Distinctions between natural and not-so-natural disasters... 09/07/2005 Put friendly face on tighter borders The challenge is preventing entry of those who'd do America harm, while not alienating, or barring, the many the US wants to welcome... 09/07/2005 A foreign aid twist: U.S. gets, others give 09/07/2005 Complacency and survival We are not rid of terrorist threat... 09/07/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Going to extremes 09/06/2005 George Will: An 'Activist' Justice 09/06/2005 We Need Two National Guards 09/06/2005 Rage and Reason Think twice before you demean the rage that sometimes simply overwhelms our rational judgment... 09/06/2005 Slick Strategy Knee-jerk blaming and long-term thinking... 09/06/2005 Gouge On A defense of gas profiteering... 09/06/2005 An "Ownership Society" on the Tigris A modest constitutional proposal: Why not give the Iraqi people a stake in their national oil endowment? 09/06/2005 FEMA fails Katrina victims New Orleans was victimized by another disaster... 09/06/2005 An update on the economy With an energy crisis looming, the government reported mixed information about the economy in recent days... 09/06/2005 Foiling homegrown terror plots Even with the chaos on the Gulf Coast, the war on terror continues... 09/06/2005 Breaks in the Levee Logic Are budget cuts to blame for the levee break? 09/02/2005 Power Plant Pollution and Environmentalists' Power Someone alert The Washington Post: New Source Review was never good for the environment... 09/02/2005 How Gov't Can Help: By Getting Out of the Way Excessive regulations, unless lifted, will hamper the relief efforts... 09/02/2005 Nativo American Meet Nativo Lopez, the Latino Al Sharpton. He's changing California politics--for the worse... 09/02/2005 Rebuilding the Gulf Coast, One Group at a Time The only way to rebuild the societies battered by Katrina is for specialized groups to find one another. The internet is ready to help... 09/02/2005 Our Dogs Days August has passed, but its craziness may not have... 09/02/2005 On the 'naturalness' of hurricanes 09/02/2005 Hurricane exposes issues of class, race Inability to address poverty a reason for disaster plan failure... 09/02/2005 Oil-refinery capacity 09/02/2005 Chirac, Euro-sclerosis and the future Blair seeks to head off Europe's decline... 09/02/2005 Cal Thomas: From spendthrifts to thrifty spending 09/01/2005 George Will: The uses of 'activism' 09/01/2005 Hurricane of Misinformation One of the major techniques of modern politics is to take every important event and tie it to the back of one's own particular hobby horse... 09/01/2005 JobBay Look at the numbers: eBay can properly be viewed as America's No. 1 generator of, not just businesses, but jobs... 09/01/2005 Disastrous Faith A belief system sticking blame on Bush... 09/01/2005 Studying John Roberts It's a Catholic temperament... 09/01/2005 The Peculiar Alliance Islamists and neo-Nazis find common ground by hating the Jews... 09/01/2005 America's pristine myth 09/01/2005 First, Andersen; now KPMG Criminal indictments of whole firms a last resort... 09/01/2005 Foggy Bottom misstep? Bush aide to speak at Muslim confab... 09/01/2005 More tax relief ahead Republicans push pro-growth agenda... 09/01/2005 Grey-Area Medicine Not all health care decisions are black-and-white... 08/31/2005 Space Elevator: Stuck Between Floors Space elevators raise some potentially knotty legal questions... 08/31/2005 A Wilderness of Perceptions Cindy Sheehan is a symptom of a deeper malaise... 08/31/2005 Empty Files Where is the case Democratic case aginast John Roberts? There is none... 08/31/2005 Mullahs' Best Friend Schroeder's appeasement has brought Iran closer to the bomb... 08/31/2005 Accounting for the Final Report The 9/11 Commission's report was once thought of as definitive. Now it looks more rickety with each passing day... 08/31/2005 Horse Sense The debate in Washington state about bestiality is actually a fight over human exceptionalism... 08/31/2005 Four years after 9/11, terror's hold is loosening 08/31/2005 Common enemy in Gaza: religious zealotry 08/31/2005 On the day after, sobering lessons from Katrina 08/31/2005 Women in Iraq Worse off under Saddam... 08/31/2005 Cal Thomas: Political preachers deliver misleading message 08/30/2005 Would You Like Fries With That Breast Cancer? A new Harvard School of Public Health study is full of problems... 08/30/2005 Scotch Tape How religious tolerance is holding Britain together -- and tearing it apart... 08/30/2005 Senator Wile E. Coyote A terribly troubling letter... 08/30/2005 Low-IQ Debate It's silly season on gender differences. But then when isn't it? 08/30/2005 House The real estate market is at an all-time high across the globe and is driving America's economy. What could possibly go wrong? 08/30/2005 Rewilding America, Pleistocene Style A team of ecologists proposes a radical step to recreate the pre-human wilderness of North America by reintroducing large predators like those that lived 13,000 years ago... 08/30/2005 Coping with Katrina The latest reminder that not every place can be secured... 08/30/2005 Supreme imposition Lawlessness on the high court... 08/30/2005 Iraq's Sunnis at a fork in the road In search of democracy or dominance? 08/30/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Endangering the troops 08/29/2005 George Will: Seriously, don't feed the animals 08/29/2005 Islam Gives the Pentagon the Boot. What Next? 08/29/2005 Make San Francisco the Leftwing Paradise It Hopes to Be A proposal to give the people of San Francisco what the really want... 08/29/2005 The Arafat Model Some leaders in Iraq are following it, and they must not get away with it... 08/29/2005 "Sorry" Works A prescription for fewer medical-malpractice suits... 08/29/2005 Peer-to-Peer? Kofi Annan is trying to "reform" the U.N. Commission on Human Rights. His plan will only make matters worse... 08/29/2005 The Media Quagmire The mainstream media understands the war in Iraq only through casualty counts and the Vietnam lens... 08/29/2005 Defending 'No Child Left Behind' 08/29/2005 Journalism 101 revelation: Ethics matter 08/29/2005 Constitutional ignorance Better civics education needed... 08/29/2005 Cal Thomas: Iraq critics are blowing in the wind 08/26/2005 George Will: Flirtations with fanaticism could prove costly to Dems in 2008 08/26/2005 The U.S. Orders Chinese Takeout This summer, a firestorm of controversy erupted in the nation's capital when Chinese oil giant CNOOC made a hostile $18.5 billion bid for U.S. oil company Unocal... 08/26/2005 Falling Down on the Jobs What do recent jobs numbers show us about the economy? 08/26/2005 Atomic Bombast: Carrots Are For Rabbits North Korea and Iran will never disarm. Here's why... 08/26/2005 "Chicken-Hawk!" Same old ad hominem... 08/26/2005 A New Day Has Dawned Reading and shaping opinions, here and over there... 08/26/2005 A Voluntary Proposal Drug companies and Congress try to get control of direct-to-consumer advertising for pharmaceuticals... 08/26/2005 Finding solace in $3-a-gallon gas In the long term, high gas prices can actually serve consumers... 08/26/2005 Resilient soldiers The military's recruiting woes continue, but the retention numbers are encouraging... 08/26/2005 Don't Call It a Comeback Some want to introduce foreign species into an environment that has proven it can sustain itself just fine without them... 08/19/2005 Health Uber Alles? Looking at the WHO's official definition of health... 08/19/2005 The Next Democracy An Iraqi democracy will be both controversial and dangerous. Controversy and danger are characteristics of democracy... 08/19/2005 A Mighty Wind Where's the rich liberal sacrifice? 08/19/2005 Manifest Destiny in Reverse Toward a race-based government in Hawaii... 08/19/2005 To Bataan and Back The critics have misunderstood The Great Raid's greatness... 08/19/2005 The Binding of King Abdullah The new king of Saudi Arabia will need help if he wants to reform his country... 08/19/2005 Kick the Internet into high speed 08/19/2005 What if the US had to write a constitution from scratch? 08/19/2005 Bush basics First, stop the jihadists in Iraq... 08/19/2005 Cal Thomas: When gas was cheap and people were valuable 08/18/2005 George Will: Minor leagues, major dreams 08/18/2005 Always Low Tactics. Always. 08/18/2005 The Yanquis Are Coming! Gringo-Boomers and the "Del Boca Vista" Migration... 08/18/2005 Son of Liberty A son's calling and a mother's heartache... 08/18/2005 "End Race Preferences" The fight continues in Michigan... 08/18/2005 |
The Information Reformation It's speeding up and conservatives are still coming out on top... 08/18/2005 To pledge or not to pledge 08/18/2005 Reality Check in Iraq 08/18/2005 Border 'emergency'? Yes. But what's the answer? 08/18/2005 Africa feels EU's bite 08/18/2005 Terror on the Internet What do we do about terrorist incitement on the internet? 08/17/2005 Are We in a Brave New World of 'Personalized' Medicine? You go to war against disease with the data you have, not the data you wish to have... 08/17/2005 Where I'd Bet Against Kurzweil We can construct tools, but we cannot construct agents... 08/17/2005 Playing "Chickenhawk" Left-wing platitudes... 08/17/2005 Protecting Food From Terrorists At last, government safeguards start to kick in... 08/17/2005 UN on precipice of critical reform ... or irrelevance 08/17/2005 It's the WAIF, Stupid On searches, security, and the impact of war at home... 08/17/2005 'I'd leave here broke' Conn. residents could be evicted with rent due... 08/17/2005 30% interest? State rules leave consumers defenseless 08/17/2005 Dismal fiscal realities The nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) on Monday released its latest 2006-2015 baseline budget forecast... 08/17/2005 Cal Thomas: Meet with her (again), Mr. President 08/16/2005 The Blood of Martyrs 08/16/2005 For Washington, It's Asia in the Balance Asia is changing at a rate with which a Middle East-distracted Washington finds it hard to keep pace... 08/16/2005 Oil's Push and Pull No one knows where the oil market is going, but Alan Greenspan knows where a petroleum problem can lead... 08/16/2005 Unreasonable Searches Policing without profiling makes no sense... 08/16/2005 Kids' Cellphones: What Next? If keeping teens within constant cellphone range relieves parental concern, why not give one to younger children, too? 08/16/2005 The Iraq war and the politics of grief In America and Britain, the grief of parents who lost sons or daughters in Iraq has become a potent political weapon - much more so than in other recent wars... 08/16/2005 High gas prices widen divide between rich and poor 08/16/2005 Oil-market frenzy and the Fed Economics, for good reason, has long been known as "the dismal science..." 08/16/2005 Border-control Democrats and President Bush Democratic hopefuls for 2008 are sensing how vulnerable President Bush is on border control... 08/16/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Working for a living 08/15/2005 George Will: Sense From the Hall of Framers 08/15/2005 We Need 250 States We cannot have an accountable democracy with such large political units. We need to break the political entities in the United States down to a manageable size... 08/15/2005 Leaving the Europeans Behind Why won't Europe get with the US-Asian program? 08/15/2005 Hiroshima Now Questions linger... 08/15/2005 Fences and a "Just Peace" The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America makes a stand against Israel's security fence and in favor of a "just peace"... 08/15/2005 US Can't Lose Its Tech Edge 08/15/2005 Rethinking Indian Mascots 08/15/2005 Listen to the past America should remember not to lose sense of urgency... 08/15/2005 Selective diversity in higher education Liberal dogma vs. academic freedom... 08/15/2005 Pape-al Fallibility: It's Not All About Us Do they hate us because we occupy their lands? 08/12/2005 Damn That Market Mentality! What's to blame for the famine in Africa? 08/12/2005 No Pork Left Behind A new record for greed: The 2005 Transportation Bill... 08/12/2005 Keep Quiet And Listen! The words of radical Islam speak for themselves... 08/12/2005 Who's Da Peeps? Polls are a stupid way to set policy... 08/12/2005 The New Litmus Test The left-wing blogosphere is ready to take on the party establishment. What do Democratic candidates have to do to earn the love? 08/12/2005 A father's memento; a sense of hope in era of terror 08/12/2005 Antiterrorism Balancing Act It's a long way down from the tightrope to the arena floor. But British Prime Minister Tony Blair, responding to July's terrorist attacks on London's transit system, seems willing to take the risk... 08/12/2005 Constitutions, Iraqi or U.S., aren't built in a day 08/12/2005 Safeguarding nuclear arsenals Multinational Proliferation Security Initiative proving critical... 08/12/2005 George Will: Carter continues lying about me 08/11/2005 Cal Thomas: Rumsfeld's cautious optimism 08/11/2005 Selective Amnesia: The Ultimate Fallout Shelter 08/11/2005 Peter Jennings' Unfortunate Legacy 08/11/2005 There Is No Joy in Juiceville. Why Not? 08/11/2005 The United Nations has not aged well. 08/11/2005 Islam's Torture of Lebanon 08/11/2005 Some Convergence of Global Warming Estimates 08/11/2005 Private vs. public jurisprudence Congress should privatize mortgage giants... 08/11/2005 The Scary Side of Ben Bernanke Bush should look elsewhere when Greenspan steps down... Labor Wars Rising? 08/11/2005 "Sterile Irrelevance" Most media criticism is smug and detached... 08/11/2005 The Proper Attitude Toward Financial Regulation The capital markets certainly fall short of the perfect system envisioned by Fischer Black... 08/10/2005 What's the Matter with (Ar)Kansas? Bill Clinton and Mike Huckabee battle the bulge... and science. 08/10/2005 Turning 'Unknown' Into 'Unknowable' Intelligent design and the flourishing of bad math and illogic... 08/10/2005 Is It Treason? The 7/7 fallout continues... 08/10/2005 Bogus Balance Banter The president should appoint justices whom he thinks will interpret the Constitution correctly... 08/10/2005 Al Qaeda's False Offer of Truce The latest Zawahiri tape continues al Qaeda's attempt to divide the West... 08/10/2005 Scuttle the Shuttle? Discovery's mixed success raises doubts. Or does it? 08/10/2005 The logic behind South Korea's big embrace of North Korea nukes 08/10/2005 A vision of no bounds John Johnson changed media's image of African-Americans... 08/10/2005 Americans dissatisfied with Congress Approval ratings drop amid challenging times... 08/10/2005 Cal Thomas: Blair's anti-terror measures: Too little, too late 08/09/2005 Hope Springs Infernal Hope is the most dangerous of all drugs. And America is the biggest pusher... 08/09/2005 Judging Faith Does Supreme Court nominee John Roberts' Catholicism matter? 08/09/2005 Wedded to Marriage Invest now or pay later? 08/09/2005 Israel's Orange-Blue Divide America has its red-blue divide, Israel its orange-blue... 08/09/2005 Adding to the heart of charity 08/09/2005 A trusted voice is lost 08/09/2005 The Roberts witch-hunt By now it's becoming clear that the liberal media's crusade to tarnish Mr. Roberts is falling short... 08/09/2005 Sudan totters, again The death of Sudan's vice president and former rebel leader John Garang could not be more unfortunate... 08/09/2005 Being French American misperceptions of Turkey... 08/09/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Heaven help us The relentless attack on public displays of spirituality and religion by progressive secularists has been extremely effective worldwide... 08/08/2005 George Will: Motown blues Being at work is a lot less fun these days for the entire domestic auto industry... 08/08/2005 What's In A Name? Three new celestial bodies have been spotted beyond Pluto but will they earn planetary status? 08/08/2005 Phonies on the Family Spending more time with the family has become the last bastion of numerous scoundrels... 08/08/2005 Saying 'So Long' to E-Waste States can act against toxins in consumer electronics... 08/08/2005 Beyond the season of death on the US-Mexico border 08/08/2005 The ACLU's 30 Years War Will the Boy Scouts ever hold their Jamboree at Fort A.P. Hill again? 08/08/2005 Goldilocks Economy The bad news is the good news isn't being heard... 08/08/2005 Fight against bioterrorism frozen in bureaucratic time 08/08/2005 Sub rescue, 5 years later Learning from history... 08/08/2005 The asbestos mess When the Senate Judiciary Committee's 10 Republican members voted in May to send asbestos-trust-fund legislation to the Senate floor, they signaled two things... 08/08/2005 Terrorist Task For New Saudi King House of Saud can fight terrorism by putting its petrodollars to work employing its young men... 08/05/2005 Oil, Money and Confidence Russia's credit boom is no economic Potemkin village... 08/05/2005 Medicine to Fit Your Genes Genetic approach to drug approvals may help unravel causes of health differences among various groups... 08/05/2005 South Africa's Moral Blind Spot The head-shaking reality is that Mbeki is not using his leverage and moral standing... 08/05/2005 Not all liberals are pro-choice and anti-Roberts 08/05/2005 Whose law will govern in Iraq? 08/05/2005 Safety legacy, not miracles, saved Air France passengers 08/05/2005 The advantages of nuclear energy To enhance America's national security and energy security over the long term, it is imperative that the United States expand its use of nuclear power... 08/05/2005 Rid Pakistan of extremism School expulsions a good proposal... 08/05/2005 Cal Thomas: The end of Israel? 08/04/2005 George Will: Casual cynicism that nowadays passes for political realism 08/04/2005 Can eurocrats stop the Iranian bomb? As the new Iranian president prepares to be sworn into office, the Islamist regime in Tehran has been stepping up its campaign of threats and brinksmanship directed at the European Union... 08/04/2005 Relying on the Saudis U.S. should take fresh approach to relations... 08/04/2005 Heat Wave Hot Air Attempting global climate control could thwart our ability to adapt... 08/04/2005 Stardust Contemplates the Stars The lure of the night sky, and the importance of the big picture... 08/04/2005 Republicans Won, MoveOn An Ohio race may just be that... 08/04/2005 The Air Out There The mainstream media may be close to discovering the Air America scandal... 08/04/2005 When Reporters Are Targets 08/04/2005 Good citizenship: Grin and bear the profiling 08/04/2005 In 14 Marines' deaths, a moment for reflection 14 Marines died in the Iraq war's deadliest roadside bombing yet... 08/04/2005 Big labor, back pockets As the recent House vote on CAFTA clearly demonstrated, it is the Democratic Party that is in the back pocket of organized labor... 08/03/2005 Nabbing illegals The announcement Monday that U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents have arrested more than 1,000 gang members nationwide so far this year is good news... 08/03/2005 Flattening Time We need a complete overhaul of the tax code... 08/03/2005 Way, Way Beyond Kyoto New Asia Pacific climate pact provides alternative to Europe's climate control strategy... 08/03/2005 On Embryonic Stem Cells, Frist Backs A Loser 08/03/2005 A New Estimate on Iran's Nukes Is the 10-year estimate good news, or bad? 08/03/2005 Congress flips a bIg switch Scrutiny needed as electric firms can now easily merge... 08/03/2005 Social Security reform can be bipartisan 08/03/2005 Subway searches prove futile 08/03/2005 Hurricane Hugo Venezuela's Hugo Chavez is a threat to more than just his own people... 08/02/2005 'There is a Use for Violence in Our Movement' The next major terrorist strike in the US could come from an unexpected direction... 08/02/2005 On Board the Discovery We can see that the future of humanity rests with those astronauts and all those in their mold... 08/02/2005 Pegged Down Trying to understand what China's unpegged renminbi means in the long run... 08/02/2005 Cal Thomas: Senator Frist's grave mistake 08/02/2005 On Again, Off Again A power problem in Basra... 08/02/2005 Don't Do Al Qaeda's Work for It Public claims of inevitable attacks create mainly fear... 08/02/2005 Don't get into a lather over sweatshops 08/02/2005 For security, not Big Brother 08/02/2005 Dubious tale about Roberts 08/02/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Alien invasion 08/01/2005 The Notting Hill Gang A signal event's lessons... 08/01/2005 Sick Transit The common path to bad security decisions is a knee-jerk reaction to the news of the day... 08/01/2005 Slicing the Pizza in Perfect Capital Markets How we've come to focus on the true underlying risks in the economy... 08/01/2005 Don't Try This At Home Appointing politicians to the Supreme Court is not the answer to what ails the Court... 08/01/2005 Pro-life feminism is no oxymoron 08/01/2005 Target real violence, not video games 08/01/2005 Mad cow cases met with shrug instead of safeguards 08/01/2005 Intolerance for terrorism 08/01/2005 Jihadists v. fools on the bench 08/01/2005 Between the sex pistols and the Koran The dilemma of 'moderate' Muslims... 08/01/2005 Robin Hood and Air America 07/29/2005 Anonymous sources A license to lie... 07/29/2005 Do We All Worship the Same God? 07/29/2005 Surveillance After London: Threats and Opportunities 07/29/2005 Albania Votes An emerging democracy, emerges... 07/29/2005 Let this Policy Go "Catch and release" should stay with the fishes... 07/29/2005 Cleaning the Ice The NHL promises changes and asks the fans for one more chance... 07/29/2005 When Hybrids Turn NASCAR 07/29/2005 US shifts on India, Pakistan 07/29/2005 NASA's shuttle fix fails, raising new questions 07/29/2005 Greenspan's report Chairman Alan Greenspan last week delivered what is likely to be his final report. It is worth reviewing his observations... 07/28/2005 Jane Fonda's second coming 07/28/2005 Dubious spin on Saudi Arabia Riyadh's supporters have begun spinning the idea that Prince Turki al-Faisal could be America's salvation in the war on terror... 07/28/2005 From Gold Bugs To Gadolinium There's no need to worry about the supply of most "precious" metals... 07/28/2005 Redeeming Gitmo The U.S. can take steps to redeem the Gitmo fiasco... 07/28/2005 Moveon Beyond Kyoto Today marks the beginnings of a realistic approach to the global warming problem... 07/28/2005 A High-Tech Workout If America is a 97-pound weakling, how do we bulk up? 07/28/2005 Truly Muslim, fully American 07/28/2005 A Half-Cocked Gun Bill Earlier this week Senator Frist abruptly cut off debate on the defense bill to turn attention to a measure that's a darling of the National Rifle Association... 07/28/2005 Rising above fear Chicago's skyscraper plans shows decline in terrorism fears... 07/28/2005 The Economy as a Food Court 07/27/2005 Estradification of the Partisan French Fry Guy The emerging talking points in the battle over the Supreme Court... 07/27/2005 Coalition of Evil The big picture of our war... 07/27/2005 Where's the Outrage? Anti-Semitism cannot be tolerated. But, of course, it is... 07/27/2005 Exit Strategies Commitment isn't what it used to be, at home or abroad... 07/27/2005 Union Disunity This week's bolting of two of the nation's largest unions from the AFL-CIO is causing great consternation among the union umbrella's leaders... 07/27/2005 Maintaining the delicate trust between press and public 07/27/2005 Sob stories mask a giveaway for the super wealthy 07/27/2005 Terrorists and their enablers 07/27/2005 Pass CAFTA 07/27/2005 Tancredo's threat Distracting remarks from a congressman... 07/26/2005 Government: A bottomless pit 07/26/2005 Harry Potter and the Half-Wit Prigs The high cost of recycling bad ideas... 07/26/2005 Green Coal? Senators go nuke at climate meeting with scientists, but need to give coal a hearing... 07/26/2005 The Inquisitor Charles Schumer, leader of the anti-Bush crusade... 07/26/2005 Washington Responds to 'Meth' But Congress, feds shouldn't overreact to this drug... 07/26/2005 A shift in antiabortion strategy? 07/26/2005 Unpegged? What China's new "floating" currency really means... 07/26/2005 Who's minding store of personal data? Technological 'conveniences' mean giving up privacy... 07/26/2005 Mugabe and the United Nations Last week, a scathing U.N. report on Zimbabwe illustrated why the government of that southern African country so deserves its status as a pariah... 07/26/2005 Money Madness The trade-deficit worriers will always have it backwards... 07/26/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Unhealthy and unwise 07/25/2005 About Those Uninsured Americans... Our health care system's flaws cannot be properly addressed if they aren't properly defined. 07/25/2005 Culture Wars at the Park Service Personality clashes, partisanship, and protest resignations... 07/25/2005 Voice of Anti-America You're listening to Radio France Internationale... 07/25/2005 The Pope of Terrorism, Part I Hassan al-Turabi, ally of Saddam Hussein and bin Laden's long-time friend and benefactor, is freed from jail... 07/25/2005 A Bull in China's Shop In bow to US and markets, Beijing frees up its currency... 07/25/2005 Beyond crew-cut sameness, cherish each soldier's unique gifts 07/25/2005 Liberals, conservatives and PBS 07/25/2005 Reconsidering Gitmo The London bombings should put Gitmo in perspective... 07/25/2005 Gladys Kravitz Nation It's not the Patriot Act that should have you spooked... 07/25/2005 Beyond the bike Armstrong's life narrative is what is impressive... 07/25/2005 Is There a Place Called Londonistan? Britain has responded the way it has at least partly because an attack on Britain had been widely expected. What wasn't expected was that it would be from within... 07/22/2005 Darwin Among the Believers Might not God's intentions be revealed better in the actual history and process of nature, his creative expression... 07/22/2005 Clinton and African AIDS Clinton's AIDS program needs to look to the future... 07/22/2005 Mending Morality Marriage has lost its special place in the law... 07/22/2005 Knucklehead Economics The Schumer-Graham tariff can't possibly work... 07/22/2005 It Takes an Establishment At some point the radicals need assistance, support, and reinforcement from establishment conservatives... 07/22/2005 Another Link in the Chain The role of Saddam and al Qaeda in the creation of Ansar al Islam... 07/22/2005 Riding out the terrorism threat, albeit with trepidation, on D.C. Metro 07/22/2005 Inflight Turbulence for the Net The business of providing Internet services on airplanes is just taking off... 07/22/2005 Replay of London attacks prompts new questions 07/22/2005 Muslims and democracy 07/22/2005 Bush hoping nomination will install Roberts' rules of order 07/21/2005 As Thailand Goes... Are international terrorists quickly spreading into Thailand? 07/21/2005 The Logic of Pacifism It's an all or nothing game... 07/21/2005 Watch their hands Hundreds of hospital patients die from preventable infections... 07/21/2005 'The medium is the message' 07/21/2005 The Irrelevance of an Oath Zarqawi and bin Laden are brothers in arms... 07/21/2005 A ludicrous U.N. idea The people who brought you the oil-for-food scandal now want to get their hands on the Internet... 07/21/2005 A Perfect Storm What does the First Amendment really protect? 07/21/2005 Merkel's Messy Manifesto Germans shouldn't expect much in the way of post-election tax relief... 07/21/2005 Bush's democracy drive on trial 07/21/2005 A New Approach on Social Security Reform If we take steps to make Social Security solvent, personal investment accounts will blossom naturally... 07/20/2005 Don't blame America 07/20/2005 An Inspired Choice President Bush deserves nothing but praise and respect for the wisdom that he has shown in filling the first open slot at One First Street in eleven years... 07/20/2005 Death Tax at Death's Door? If it isn't, it should be... 07/20/2005 At Last, Drop the Puck Summer may be hotter than a pepper sprout in most of North America, but hockey fans at last can indulge in cool dreams of frozen rinks and flashing skates... 07/20/2005 Kids and the Internet - it's a good thing 07/20/2005 Out for a pillion ride The report then went on to pronounce that the key problem in Britain for preventing terrorism is that the country is "riding as a pillion passenger with the United States in the war on terror." What a vile, lying, contemptuous assertion... 07/20/2005 Guantanamo outrage hinges on 5 myths 07/20/2005 The Al-Douri Factor How one of Saddam's closest Baath party aides came to be an ally of militant Islamists... 07/20/2005 No lessons left behind Narrowed racial gap in student learning deserves applause... 07/20/2005 Abbas Needs Backup With Israel's pullout from the Gaza strip and four West Bank settlements just weeks away, the world is witnessing just how explosive this process could be... 07/20/2005 Cal Thomas: What happened to unconditional surrender? 07/19/2005 Take a Hike It's what kids do, not what adults say, that matters regarding obesity... 07/19/2005 Let them have broadband Telecom giants wrongly block rural broadband... 07/19/2005 Creative Destruction... ...is sweeping the American economic landscape. 07/19/2005 The spirit of tax rebellions Voters don't always simply rollover... 07/19/2005 "How Can I be Sold Like This?" The trafficking of North Korean women refugees... 07/19/2005 Energy-Bill Follies The energy bills will do more harm than good... 07/19/2005 Pulling Pork from Security The federal government does not have the funds or ability to guard against all possible threats. The most serious must take the highest priority... 07/19/2005 It Takes Village to Raise Video Gamers? Hillary Clinton's plan to regulate video games... 07/19/2005 Evil Within We're still surprised by things we shouldn't be surprised by... 07/19/2005 How to Lose a War on Terror The suspects are plentiful, but the political and legal obstacles to thwarting them are more plentiful... 07/19/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Protecting the kids 07/18/2005 American science in decline 07/18/2005 Russian Housecleaning As if it were wielding a broom, the Kremlin is busily sweeping away its political opposition... 07/18/2005 Teen cynicism is byproduct of college application process 07/18/2005 Snapping a finger at African aid 07/18/2005 Is the CIA above all laws? 07/18/2005 Former critics see the light Better standards make nuclear power logical source... 07/18/2005 Return to Murderapolis Crime is up in Minneapolis, thanks to opposition to racial profiling... 07/18/2005 The Canadian beef scare 07/18/2005 Massacre of the Innocents All's fair in jihad... 07/18/2005 Being Profitable Is "Giving Back" Why the estate tax should be repealed... 07/18/2005 Monster Fidel Castro: International Criminal... 07/15/2005 The Circus That Won't Leave Town There's no silly season in this Purple American city... 07/15/2005 Murde's Row Rules The mullahs and us... 07/15/2005 The Post-Attack Disaster Britain's Muslims must turn on terrorists in their midst... 07/15/2005 Iraq's Next Steps The democratic process must continue... 07/15/2005 The Robber Baron Something stinks: And it's not MTBE so much as trial lawyers' connections... 07/15/2005 The markets strike back Despite the assaults of radical Islamists on free societies, rising equity bourses suggest the U.S.-British-led coalition is making enormous gains... 07/15/2005 Science Funding's Unintended Consequences Focusing on practical research comes at cost of major gains... 07/15/2005 New racism in new bottles The Akaka Bill is unconstitutional, racist, divisive and subversive of American unity... 07/15/2005 Assessing the Donaldson Era The SEC used to be the most respected regulatory agency in Washington... 07/15/2003 Cal Thomas: Teaching the Constitution 07/14/2005 The 28th Amendment A little amendment to the Constitution. Nothing too grand, mind you... 07/14/2005 Fasten your seat belts Because the judicial branch may now be the most dangerous, restrained only by its own sense of limits... 07/14/2005 Yes, London Can Take It Pluck vs. defeatism after the bombs... 07/14/2005 Not-So-New Threat: Disposable Terrorists Why nothing's shocking anymore... 07/14/2005 The price con Until citizens force the political class to require objective cost-benefit studies before any money is spent, the government price con will continue... 07/14/2005 Judgement Day What President Bush needs to keep in mind when nominating a Supreme Court justice... 07/14/2005 Deals and Demagogues What's all the fuss over CNOOC's bid for Unocal?... 07/14/2005 'Anonymous' in the best places How much more efficient, clean and responsive would government be if every newspaper used anonymous sources... 07/14/2005 Bringing Back the Draft "Who the hell" are all these Condi Rice people?... 07/14/2005 Bill O'Reilly: The new PBS 07/13/2005 Cal Thomas: Terrorism's root causes 07/13/2005 Divestment Fraud Divestment movement on US campuses and mainline churches must be a sham.... 07/13/2005 Darwin and Design: The Evolution of a Flawed Debate 07/13/2005 Our House of Lords The Supreme Court is much more powerful than the House of Lords... 07/13/2005 What do Iraq and Israel have in common? War and a sickness... 07/13/2005 Hey, News Media, You're the Target 07/13/2005 China's ugly look at race Few countries in the world are cursed with as much anti-black racism as Communist China... 07/13/2005 Dying for Liberation Why is PETA killing animals?... 07/13/2005 Fear Factor The state of fear in which many Muslims find themselves is a formidable barrier to transformation... 07/13/2005 Stop the raid Social Security debate with a new proposal that finally focuses reform on the personal accounts... 07/13/2005 An Islamic Opus Dei? 07/12/2005 No Blood for Oil Lets cut terror's lifeline... 07/12/2005 Uncle Sam Really Wants You! 07/12/2005 Cloaked in secrecy Congress needs to tighten its rules on travel... 07/12/2005 Lax screening becomes a passport for criminals 07/12/2005 |
Unstoppable? The U.S. economy is back on a roll and even the oil question may be on its way to resolution... 07/12/2005 Journalists aren't above the law 07/12/2005 Taxing Issues 07/12/2005 A Tale of Two Ediths Some lessons can best be taught by a woman... 07/12/2005 Abortion, Bombs and Privacy 07/12/2005 Cal Thomas: London's terrorist blitz 07/11/2005 Bill O'Reilly: The new PBS 07/11/2005 The London Bombings Taking the threat to us seriously... 07/11/2005 Taking property is bad economics Private property is a cornerstone of capitalism. The protection of property rights is essential to our free enterprise system's efficient operation... 07/11/2005 Terrorism Lessons From 1870 Up to this point moderate Muslims have seemed paralyzed. We might wonder why this is the case... 07/11/2005 The Next London Bombing According to a UK government report, 16,000 British Muslims are "actively engaged in terrorist activity"... 07/11/2005 Video dinner American kids do lag behind many of their European and Asian counterparts in subjects like math and science. But blaming video games fails to explain why plugged-in and wired-up Japanese kids perform so well... 07/11/2005 Sugar Daddies How sugar interests rip off America and harm the national interest... 07/11/2005 Euro-Jihadists Can Beat Our Border Security Weaknesses allow terrorist aliens to penetrate the US immigration system... 07/11/2005 George Will: The man Bush should nominate to replace O'Connor 07/08/2005 'Mainstream Conservative' And other exercises in political spin... 07/08/2005 Lessons from London Yesterday's bombings revealed five truths vital to winning the War on Terror... 07/08/2005 We're All in Kansas Now, Toto Everyone into the cellar: Judicial activism's twister touches down in Topeka... 07/08/2005 War in Pieces: The Blood Feud I feel more than ever that the war model is deeply flawed... 07/08/2005 Trade beats aid ... More aid to Africa may not "make poverty history" but it will do at least some short-term good... 07/08/2005 Kicking the Can New research shows it's time to accept some hard truths about soft drinks... 07/08/2005 Securing terror target No. 1 Iraqi marines will eventually replace American sailors defending Al Basrah Oil Terminal... 07/08/2005 Withdrawal Under Fire What Lebanon's history can tell us about Iraq... 07/08/2005 Unrestrained sex predators How many children must die before lawmakers and the courts decide to keep certain classes of sexual predators behind bars permanently?... 07/08/2005 Cal Thomas: Warming up to hit hard 07/07/2005 Tony Blair: "They Will Never Succeed" 07/07/2005 A Race-Based State Hawaii wants a segregation that would boggle your mind... 07/07/2005 Ideas Have Consequences, Don't They? The left's intellectual elites want to hear that the reason their ideas don't prevail is that ideas don't matter... 07/07/2005 The vigilantes get ready to pounce Eternal vigilance is the price of liberty, as we all know, but sometimes vigilantes have to invent bad guys to keep their franchise alive... 07/07/2005 The Circus Comes to Town If Bush nominates the right candidate for the Supreme Court, Democrats could be in trouble, again... 07/07/2005 Tom, you've said enough 07/07/2005 Robotic (not human) missions deliver big bang 07/07/2005 Snuffing Out Tobacco in Prisons Efforts should be made to help prisoners kick the habit... 07/07/2005 End It, Don't Mend it The time has come to end, not mend, parole... 07/07/2005 Omaha, Capital of Investor Nation Why Ameritrade's $3 billion acquisition of TD Waterhouse is good news for the individual investor... 07/07/2005 Cal Thomas: Supreme lessons 07/06/2005 Chirac vs. the Anglosphere At the G8 Summit, Chirac will again beat a dead horse... 07/06/2005 Aiding Africa Trade, not welfare, is the answer... 07/06/2005 Orwell in the Tropics The nightmare of Cuban refugees continues in the Bahamas... 07/06/2005 Impoverished Policy If Blair gets his way on global warming, Africa will become even poorer... 07/06/2005 Autism link unproven 07/06/2005 Politics and public education 07/06/2005 Supporting Suffrage in D.C. 07/06/2005 'Terror Target No. 1' Austin Bay with the soldiers and the Iraqi marines protecting Iraq's economy... 07/06/2005 Canada sensibly embraces right to private health insurance 7/06/2005 George Will: A Timely Reminder in '1776' 07/05/2005 Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi: Stop questioning my patriotism 07/05/2005 Bill O'Reilly: Culture war of the worlds 07/05/2005 Why Film Director Steven Spielberg Should Avoid Malta this week 07/05/2005 The UN at 60 Not a happy anniversary for the scandal plagued institution... 07/05/2005 Astrologer Sues NASA For Tampering With Comet 07/05/2005 Charles Krauthammer: The Neoconservative Convergence 07/05/2005 Robot hand performs remote breast checks 07/05/2005 Some fat lies The Centers for Disease Control announced in June plans to dispatch "disease detectives" in states to adopt for obesity... 07/05/2005 The Case for (Carve-Out) Personal Accounts 07/05/2005 Palestinians Who Cling to Israel Even terrorists want to lead the good life... 07/05/2005 Bringing home the bacon The part-time job of the nation's lawmakers is to argue over what might or might not be good for America. Their full-time job is to ensure that, however they decide those questions, it helps them win re-election... 07/05/2005 Cal Thomas: Making the case 07/01/2005 Winners and Losers Turn the Fate of Iran The danger Tehran's new dictator faces... 07/01/2005 Who Separated Church and State? 07/01/2005 Denying Our Country's Founding Whether the Supreme Court likes it or not, the Ten Commandments are our nation's heritage... 07/01/2005 Way of the Superhero When you take the law into your own hands, you either become a law unto yourself, or you become the conduit for a higher law... 07/01/2005 Whose Responsibility Why are drug companies condemned for helping AIDS victims when its health agencies that aren't doing their jobs?... 07/01/2005 Cal Thomas: The President makes his case 06/30/2005 Thou Shalt Not Commit Religion 06/30/2005 Better to Die Young Than Get Fat The UN's moral crusade against obesity immorally turns its back on the world's undernourished poor... 06/30/2005 Making Sense of "Mixed Signals" The economic upsides are numerous; the downsides, avoidable... 06/30/2005 Death Threats and Tolerance 06/30/2005 All the Insecurity Money Can Buy 06/30/2005 Mr. President, Everyday is Election Day Now is not the time to shrink from the public stage... 06/30/2005 Supremely Inconsistent The Supreme Court can't make up its mind about the moral capacities of kids... 06/30/2005 Cal Thomas: The Constitution and the Commandments 06/29/2005 The EU's Unholy Alliance Why are the bureaucrats in Brussels still negotiating with Hamas?... 06/29/2005 One Man's 'Deadly Weapon' 06/29/2005 The Mass Confusion Act The push for loose elections standards... 06/29/2005 Kernals of Truth New genetic corn crisis demonstrates the problem is in overregulation not the seeds... 06/29/2005 CAFTA Crunch It needn't have been this hard; it could have been much better... 06/29/2005 The New Telecom Players Who will shape this year's expected massive communications changes?... 06/29/2005 Uninformed expropriation Five members of the Supreme Court get an "F" both in economics and history for not understanding the importance of the protection of private property... 06/29/2005 Riding the East Asian Tiger Will coming East Asia Summit ease tensions or raise them?... 06/29/2005 Bias, what bias? When will the network media and other "mainstream" outlets finally stop pretending to be balanced? 06/28/2005 The Power of Hatred Those fatuous lawmakers who float talk of "timetables" are guilty at the least of a monstrous ignorance... 06/28/2005 Grokster at last! It's all about the business model, not the technology... 06/28/2005 Joke on the Water On Lake Geneva's shore, a diplo-cratic assault on intellectual property runs aground on reality... 06/28/2005 Limits of Religion in Public Life 06/28/2005 Battling Bushwhackers U.S. Army recruits prepare for highway ambushes in Iraq... 06/28/2005 Supreme Commandment No divisiveness... 06/28/2005 Supremes in harmony Court shows a will to combat copyright theft, but not a way... 06/28/2005 Why marriage today takes more love, work - from both partners 06/28/2005 Cal Thomas: Let's move on 06/28/2005 George Will: High Court hairsplitting 06/28/2005 Bill O'Reilly: The limits of dissent 06/27/2005 Your castle no more It means no one's property is truly secure... 06/27/2005 Iran's New Puppet President 06/27/2005 Can a People Have Too Much Respect for the Law? 06/27/2005 Why press gets 'bad press' News organizations lack transparent standards and seem willing to "report" almost anything, without proper confirmation... 06/27/2005 It's not the government, stupid. The real problem is that Social Security benefits are too low, not that they're too high... 06/27/2005 A despot to be dealt with Now it is time to get rid of another Middle East despot, Bashar Assad, president of Syria... 06/27/2005 George Will: Damaging 'deference' 06/24/2005 They Can't Take That Away From Me... Unless They Can we might just as well roll up the Takings Clause of the Bill of Rights, because we won't need it any longer... 06/24/2005 Occupation and Settlement: The Myth and Reality The Arab war to destroy the state of Israel is based on the myth... 06/24/2005 The 10-Year Conundrum? What bond yields are telling us — and are not telling us... 06/24/2005 Judicial Nominations: Round Two Yesterday's Eminent Domain decision reveals how crucial new Supreme Court nominees will be... 06/24/2005 Peace Is at Hand Pelosi's premature declaration... 06/24/2005 Fed inflation forecasts 06/24/2005 Tiny Island, Tiny Dictator Elba has something to teach us about tyrants and how they finish... 06/24/2005 Making prey of the predators Now, more than ever, we need to stand together and unite cities, communities and states in the effort to stop assault on America's children... 06/24/2005 George Will: Is embarrassment the right lever to use? 06/23/2005 Cal Thomas: Bias runs deep at PBS 06/23/2005 Third Wave Gentrification Half.com is a lie. But maybe not for long... 06/23/2005 Ending the Saudi Double Game A new bill in the Senate calls the Saudis to account... 06/23/2005 Junkets for Judges Contrary to critics' beliefs, privately sponsored judicial conferences broaden judges' minds... 06/23/2005 A Tale of Two Prophets The theology of hard labor is radically at odds with the theology of the intellectual... 06/23/2005 Gitmo Loses 5-Star Rating Introducing a compact set of torture rules for Guantanamo... 06/23/2005 How Rude! We used to take manners for granted, but now they're a lost art... 06/23/2005 Reforming Iran From the Top Iranian reformists are forgetting the most basic -- and most urgent -- of policy priorities... 06/23/2005 Civics Lessons, Courtesy of the Fed Tune in to the inanity of our public officials... 06/23/2005 What Happened in Lebanon's Elections? The "anti-Syrian" winners aren't exactly as the media portray them... 06/22/2005 Time for the Sun to Rise How a newly confident and engaged Japan would help the United States, and the world... 06/22/2005 New Minds in Old Bottles As we move from the information age to the conceptual age, the more things stay the same... 06/22/2005 The Trouble with a Transactions Tax Another reform proposal that doesn't consider the real world... 06/22/2005 So Many Missed Opportunities The time has now come for fiscal conservatives to publicly admit the trut |