Scientific American used to be a great magazine but like any publishing venture headquartered in New York, it has gradually drifted into liberal never-never-land. . Over the years the magazine has run several lead stories encouraging complete nuclear disarmament. At…
Without any idea what it is doing, Congress is about to pulverize the American medical system, put the health insurance companies out of business, and set the federal budget on a runaway course that may end up wrecking the entire…
I found myself glued to the television last week as Fox broadcast its special investigation of ACORN. It was a terrific piece of journalism — something worthy of 60 Minutes in its heyday. But the real fascination for me was personal….
The basic axiom of free-market economics is that government regulations mess up a market, which leads to misdistributions, which leads to more cries for government regulation. You couldn’t find a better example than the current health insurance “crisis.” This week…
In 1960, a handful of resource-rich Third World nations, tired of being shoved around by the giant oil companies, met in Baghdad to discuss their mutual problems. Attending were Saudi Arabia, Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, and Venezuela. They decided to form…
Are all Democrats stupid or do you just have to be stupid to be a Democrat? I haven’t figured that out yet. The latest manifestation of the understanding-challenged comes with a New York Times op-ed last week by Oregon Democratic…
It’s remarkable that in the whole brouhaha about Joe Wilson shouting “You lie!” at President Obama’s assertion that illegal immigrant won’t be covered by Obamacare, no one has pursued the question, “Who’s right?” So here’s the answer. Yes, illegal immigrants…
I’ve finally figured out what it is about liberals. They speak a different language. It’s a language not even meant to be understood by ordinary human beings but only by those in the know. Let me tell you how I…
“In Kennedy, the Last Roar of the New Deal Liberal,” proclaimed the New York Times‘ “Week in Review” Sunday section in summarizing the late Senator’s career. There’s another way they might have put it: “Ted Kennedy: The Man Forever Stuck…