The Toilets in Cuba Aren’t Better Than Ours

It seems that in the eyes of radical Islamists the false allegations originating from an anonymous source are enough to kill and go to war over.

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A Statistic, a Morsel of History and a Recollection

Economic data suggests that the longer a society lived under Socialism the more difficult it becomes to rejoin the modern world.

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Poor Sport: Jim Lampley and the State of American Liberalism

Lampley’s description of President Bush’s re-election as the biggest crime in American history is emblematic of the state of liberalism in America.

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Betraying the Real Freedom Fighters

It is a gross injustice that America endorses a sovereign Palestinian state — but shuns Taiwan’s claim to independence.

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Marijuana and Me

Based on my experience with the stuff, along with witnessing its effect on others, I would say it makes people hungry, dozy and stupid.

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The Republican Revolution is Dead

The Republican product these days is a government that won’t stop spending on failed programs.

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This is Your Brain on the New York Times

The Gray Lady poses one of the greatest dangers to the nation’s intellectual health.

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Runaway Bride Lost in Junk Journalism

Elements of the Jennifer Wilbanks story are newsworthy but, oddly enough, those aspects remain almost unmentioned.

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Roosevelt’s Social Security Plan Included Private Accounts

The concept of individuals being able to invest their own funds exclusively for their benefit was part of FDR’s original Social Security plan.

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Help!—A Jew And a Black Under Attack!

A senior rabbi has accused Rabbi Lapin and Pastor Hutcherson of hiding behind their ethnic identities to hurl out hate speech.

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Interview with Brian Anderson

The author of South Park Conservatives on his new book, the new media, and City Journal.

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The People v Harvard Law: How America’s Oldest Law School Turned its Back on Free Speech

Harvard law grad Andrew Thomas provides an insider’s perspective of the top law professors in the nation, including Lawrence Tribe and Alan Dershowitz, and reveals that the friction at the law school over free speech is between the “left” and the “far left,” since conservatives are essentially non-existent on the faculty and in the administration.

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Capitalism and Judeo-Christian Religion

Thomas Brewton’s reply to Gavin Kennedy on Adam Smith, free markets, and morality.

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New Social Security Proposal Exposes Left-Wing Hypocrisy

President Bush’s addition of “progressive indexing” to his Social Security reform plan exposes an almost unconscionable hypocrisy in the Democrats’ position on this issue.

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Thank You for Not Sharing

In their new book One Nation Under Therapy, Christina Hoff-Summers and Sally Satel explore and describe the transcendence of therapism over common sense and reason.

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Death to “Diplomacy” with Iran

European “diplomacy” with Iran — now supported by Washington — is self-destructive.

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Have You Ever Noticed That Rooney Rhymes with Goony?

Andy Rooney’s screeds on 60 Minutes have been boring and embarrassing for many years.

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Adam Smith and Judeo-Christian Religions

Responding to Thomas Brewton, Professor Gavin Kennedy questions the nature of the relationship between capitalism and Judeo-Christian religion.

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Super-Sized Statistics

Individuals should be assuming, not relinquishing personal control over their own health. We should down-size government’s interest in what we eat and right-size the statistics it’s feeding us.

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Bush Gets Real on Social Security Reform

No matter what you may think or hear regarding Social Security, the one maxim to remember is that the program is headed for insolvency sooner rather than later.

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John Paul II and the Revitalization of Western Civilization

For John Paul II, the problem began in the Enlightenment and the scientific revolution, when science and reason were divorced from faith and morality.

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End Social Security

How much, when, and in what form one should provide for retirement is highly individual — and is properly left to the individual’s free judgment and action.

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Federal Public Works Projects: Wastefulness by Design

Boston’s Big Dig helps to demonstrate how efficiency is a negative criterion in a government project.

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Disappointed in Dallaire

In his new book, Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian Lieutenant General in charge of the failed 1994 Rwandan peacekeeping mission, has mainly praise for the United Nations.

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Anything You Can Do, They Can Do Better

I’d like to be around some day when a football coach shows up at a CPA’s office and ridicules the way the guy figures out deductions.

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