The French may have spurned the European Union's Constitution for the wrong reasons, but overall their instincts were sound. That the pro-free market Dutch have seconded the non vote with a resounding nee ought to give pause to the collectivist superstate's illiberal...
Yes, Some People Do Push Back
"All great truths begin as blasphemies," said George Bernard Shaw. But not all blasphemies are the beginnings of great truths, a distinction worth remembering when it comes to Ward Churchill. The chairman of the ethnic studies program at the University of Colorado...
About a Boy
The (unrequited) love of my life did his basic training in an elite Israeli commando. Once, after he had been characteristically belligerent, his "merciful" commanders made him stand in the rain throughout the night, bed on back. At 19, he was a powerfully...
Second Thoughts, First Principles
A couple of tedious paragraphs into her paean to George Bush, scribbler Suzanne Fields divulges triumphantly that she hangs with Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. These two Beltway Babes got together last week to dish "over a Danish and a cup of black coffee."...
The International Highway to Hell
Who hasn't heard soldier after American soldier burble on about how freeing Iraqis inspires him? Or, if injured, this archetypal GI will often say how eager he is to get back to his "buddies," those he considers his real family. (Come now, Objectivists: How do you...
Syria Out Doesn’t Mean U.S. In
Most real people had a 9/11 moment. Ann Coulter's call to arms was particularly memorable. For exhorting, "We should invade their countries, kill their leaders and convert them to Christianity," she was even banished from National Review. This was indeed a...
Ink Stains and Blood Stains
People with no principles look to consequences to justify their actions the Republican Party and its media megaphones now contend that Iraq's first democratic election has provided a final and irrefutable justification for America's invasion and conquest. That...
His Rhetoric, Our Reality
Beyond Buzzwords In his second inaugural address, George W. Bush preached that freedom (mentioned 27 times) and liberty (15 times) are powerful medicines they "break the reign of hatred and resentment, and expose the pretensions of tyrants, and reward the hopes...
Yes to US Aid, No to USAID
How generous are Americans? Inconceivably so. An official collecting private donations for victims of the Asian tsunami has described American largess as a "tidal wave of generosity." How generous are Americans compared to everyone else? Canada's Fraser Institute...
The Neoconneries Plan For Iran
There's blood in the water and the neoconservatives in and around the administration are thrashing about like sharks. They've thrown Donald Rumsfeld over the side, and to many, their treachery is evidence that Rumsfeld can't possibly be one of them, a neoconservative....