Peter Hannaford

Four years ago, Shell Wind Energy, a unit of the oil company, looked for a suitable site for a wind farm on the Northern California coast. Its scouts found a large acreage — cattle pastures — high on the hills…

If Not Us, Who? William Rusher, National Review, and the Conservative Movement By David B. Frisk (ISI Books, 517 pages, $34.95) TODAY MANY YOUNG CONSERVATIVES may not know the name of William Rusher. For others who did not know him…

Congress regularly passes Laws of Unintended Consequences, then scrambles around to try to fix them. Out in the real world, human nature creates its own laws, most of them immutable. For example: The Law of Telephone Book White Pages The…

All of Ronald Reagan’s formative years, from birth until he landed his first job across the Mississippi 21 years later, were lived in rural northwestern Illinois except for about ten months in Chicago. In all but one case, his rural…

Static made it hard to hear the voice on the other end, but I soon recognized it as that of my friend Henny-Penny, the erstwhile found of The Holy Order of The Sky Is Falling, now a leading global warming…

Beginning in 2000, the Republican National Committee embarked on an outreach program among Hispanic voters. It did surveys and trained speakers to go out into communities to make contact with voters. Many of them spoke Spanish. The program was tailored to…

On Tuesday last week California jumped off a cliff. You could call it a case of assisted suicide — economic suicide. California had been contemplating the action for a long time, making several tentative efforts to do itself in. Finally,…

In the Jerry Sandusky case Penn State officials closed their ears for years to rumors about his behavior. In the Netherlands, the alleged pedophile Joris Demmink, Secretary-General of the Dutch Ministry of Justice, has had a close friend thwart official…

Call it the Law of Robot Customer Service. As ever more companies adopt endlessly complicated automated telephone systems, ever more customers become ever more frazzled. You know the symptoms (translations in parentheses): “Your call is important to us, so please…

Riots over the Middle East and South Asia get everyone’s attention, but a clear and present danger to the United States homeland exists that virtually no one is talking about and for which we have no defense: missile attack. A…