Special Report
Get Off His Back (Updated)
Ben Stein | 9.2.05
SPECIAL WEEKEND POSTING: A few truths about George Bush, New Orleans, and the media. UPDATED — “More Mysteries of Katrina” — Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005, 2:13 p.m.
SPECIAL WEEKEND POSTING: A few truths about George Bush, New Orleans, and the media. UPDATED — “More Mysteries of Katrina” — Sunday, Sept. 4, 2005, 2:13 p.m.
New Orleans may or may not return, but order had better, and soon.
A sewer of applied liberalism, New Orleans was lawless long before this week.
History can only be remembered after it's been made.
What it's like to be stuck between a rock and a hahd place.
State GOP salary enhancers are going after conservative activists who have their number.
Communism continues to enjoy forgiveness and forgetting.
Moribund coverage. Pumping gas prices. Also: Chicken squawks. Deregulating Lou Dobbs. Plus much more.
A true story about those who should have left, but did not.
Democrats need to learn to get along.
Here's how to throw back liberal grenades.
In a few days, America's most notorious tax could bite the dust.
Inclusiveness, not God, grows membership. Also: the Spectator Rifle Club, Lou's blue, Dubya's dandy, Iowa lessons, and much more!
With the 2006 elections looming, dumbfounded Democrats are having trouble responding to Iraq.
Hillary Clinton favors a heedless and streamlining FDA as long as the drugs in question are life-ending rather than life-saving.
In the surreal world of Political Islam civilians are soldiers and vice-versa.
Antonio Stradivari crafted instruments on loan from God.
Neighborhood nervousness in Ohio. Plus: Leading in Iraq. Dr. Death With Dignity. Exercised. And much more.
Two examples of can-do leadership on the ground.
It could be worse, as shown by the example of Dr. Walter Sackett.
The idea that Ohioans most feared is turning out to be exactly what they most needed.
Forrest McDonald, a great American historian, has written a great American memoir.
Cindy continues to deliver! Also, San Francisco sinks, going UNder, Buffett can't tough it, actions and reactions, and more!
Support for terrorism and Old Globaloney in preparation for the UN reform summit.
What compelled San Francisco to sink the USS Iowa?
Warren Buffett's anti-American investment sentiment has cost his shareholders dearly.
Everything you always wanted to know about Joseph Stalin — and were too afraid to ask.
Proverbs for the dimwitted from a true moral authority.
Is the Journal worth reading? Also: Wanted: Children, Sheehan’s show, Bush’s biceps, assemblies of the better-informed, hackery, and much more!
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