The Hazards of Ensuring Safety
Back when my family vacationed in Miami Beach, it wasn’t uncommon for the hotels abutting the shoreline to have high diving boards. I mean sometimes really high — maybe...
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Engineering Oblivion: Eugenics, the Remaking of Man and Unmaking of Morality
The year is 1941, and the Nazis are in the midst of their Lebensborn program. Men of pure Aryan stock — especially members of the Waffen-SS, thought the cream...
Generation Zero
While I certainly look back with fondness on the “Greatest Generation,” I can’t help but think that the superlative applied to it may be unwarranted. They did weather the...
Change You Can Believe In: From Bushisms to Obamanisms
Shortly after Barack Obama was elected, one of his supporters, alluding to George W. Bush’s supposedly lacking intellect, said to me, “I’m just happy to have someone intelligent in...
When a People Tyrannizes Itself
All around the realm was heard a fateful cry: ?'Twill make us sleep the nightmare if ye tax the other guy. ?We can accept the yoke of poor...
Drill, Baby, Drill . . . Still
The gulf oil gusher is a disaster of great proportions. We’ve all seen the pictures of petroleum-soaked birds and dead fish, and the area’s economy is on life support....
The Big Government-Big Business Axis
If you accept the old stereotype, you believe that big government is a sworn enemy of big business. You believe that, were it not for Washington’s protection, we’d all...
Congressman Etheridge Assaults Student
A shocking video released today shows Congressman Bob Etheridge (D-N.C.) assaulting a student who asked him a question on a public sidewalk. ...
Krauthammer Favors “Path to Citizenship” for Illegals
Perhaps Charles Krauthammer has lunched one too many times with Linda Chavez, but he’s starting to sound more like Harry Reid than the conservative standard bearer he’s reputed to...
New York Law Would Enroll All Residents as Organ Donors
Living in New York has long cost an arm and a leg. Now dying there may cost a kidney and a heart. Under a proposed law, all state residents...
Is Genocide Coming to South Africa?
Back in the 1980s, South Africa figured prominently on the West’s radar screen. Protests against apartheid were everywhere; the movement even inspired a song: “Sun City.” With the fall...
Latest Lunacy from Abroad: Children Firing Teachers
Perhaps the best case study in leftism run amuck is England, which in two generations has gone from Churchill and churches to hate-speech laws and halal ritual. For example,...
Catholic Church Sex Scandal & Celibacy
After getting in my car the other night, this writer turned on a radio show hosted by a man renowned as a rare moderate in talk radio, although he’s...
Mixed-sex Dorm Rooms, Mixed up World
First it was coeducation.Then it was young men and women in different wings of the same dormitories. Next we had the sexes sharing the same hallways and bathrooms. Now,...
Nanotech Energy Source Discovered
Could you imagine a laptop battery that lasted for 500 hours? How about an electric car that boasts a range many times that of a gasoline vehicle? For that...