Stinking in America: Is Not Washing the New PC Trend?
People like me are often accused of wanting to return to the 19th century. But, if the New York Times is right about...
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Terror Stalks U.S!
"Terror Stalks U.S!" So screamed the printed edition of New York's Daily News last weekend — and it wasn't a forecast of Tuesday's...
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Palin Big Winner in 2010 Campaigns
A lot of people talk about recycling; some people live it. Jerry Brown, who became governor of the nation's largest state in his...
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Virginia’s Black Confederates
One tragedy of war is that its victors write its history and often do so with bias and dishonesty. That's true about our...
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Federal Mass Transit a Big Flop
Central planning seldom makes economic sense. However good a scheme looks on paper in some politician’s office, planned on the taxpayer’s dime, it's...
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Passage Was Only the Beginning: Books on Ratification
Despite the steadiness of the stream, the fertile field of “Founders Literature” never seems to reach a saturation point. Recently, a flood of...
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FDR, Barack Obama, and Failed Policies
Guess who said the following: "We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does...
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“Bad Deal” Broder Wants More “Preparations for War”
Old war hawks never die, they just beat new war drums. Columnist David Broder, New Dealer emeritus at the Washington Post, believes he...
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A Crossroads Election
Most elections are about particular policies, particular scandals or particular personalities. But these issues don't mean as much this year — not because...
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NPR and Juan Williams
In a way, the history of National Public Radio, now known simply as NPR, follows the slow, incremental creep of America toward socialism....
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Tomorrow, a Time for Patriotism
Here’s a thought regarding tomorrow’s voting, from Samuel Adams (1722-1803), a leader in the movements that became the Boston Tea Party and the...
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The Saints of Now and Then
For those who follow politics, in the hope that our politics leads somewhere, today is Election eve, the day before we get to...
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A Review of “Antiquity as the Source of Modernity”
For those readers with an interest in the intellectual roots of modern conservative thought, one may well describe Thomas Chaimowicz’s Antiquity as the...
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Wait Until We Throw These Rascals Out
I read a very depressing statistic recently. In a nationwide poll, some 63 percent of adult Americans said they do not think they...
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Stimulus Dollars Leave America
Government never “stimulates” economic growth. Left quite alone, people engage in rational commerce guided only by enlightened self-interest. More crucially, government cannot predict...
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