Conventional wisdom is that the welfare state is the savior of the blacks, who are presumed to need the goodies of government generosity in order to alleviate their status of poverty and years of discrimination. Now comes one of the most prominent … [Read more...] about Who are the Enemies of the Blacks?
Our Great Opportunity for Real Arms Control
Pressure will be on the Bush Administration to cut defense spending in tandem with domestic spending cuts. However, what we need to spend on defense has no relation whatsoever to domestic spending. Defense spending should depend on the threat to … [Read more...] about Our Great Opportunity for Real Arms Control
The 25th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination
For those of us who lived through the dramatic events of November 22, 1963, the many recent television programs revisiting the Kennedy assassination had a morbid fascination. There still are, as Walter Cronkite opined in his PBS documentary, an … [Read more...] about The 25th Anniversary of Kennedy’s Assassination
Witches Ride in the Classroom
For most of us, Halloween is a mildly amusing night that means jack-o-lanterns, trick-or-treaters, and children garbed in ridiculous costumes. Fortunately, it comes only once a year, as that is about all most of us can take of witches and other-world … [Read more...] about Witches Ride in the Classroom
Pro-Life Victories In the 1988 Election
A favorite piece of sloganeering by the abortion/Planned Parenthood crowd when they attack the pro-lifers is, “Don’t let a minority impose its values on the rest of us.” They ignore the fact that it was a minority of seven men in Roe v. Wade who … [Read more...] about Pro-Life Victories In the 1988 Election
Controversies Facing the Catholic Bishops
When the U.S. Catholic Bishops gather for their annual meeting in Washington, D.C., this month, they will face a number of interesting controversies. It used to be that the feminists seeking ordination and the peaceniks seeking nuclear disarmament … [Read more...] about Controversies Facing the Catholic Bishops
Poverty – A Misunderstood Label
Working, taxpaying Americans spend vast sums of money every year in a tremendously generous effort to lift other Americans out of poverty. These multi-billion federal programs are based on official statistics about how many families are below an … [Read more...] about Poverty – A Misunderstood Label
Bank and Business Favoritism to the U.S.S.R.
The U.S. banking business is one of our most regulated industries. Bank examiners have vast powers to bring about compliance with strict regulations and standards. So how is it that U.S. banks can get by with lending U.S. depositors’ money to … [Read more...] about Bank and Business Favoritism to the U.S.S.R.
The War of the Worlds
It was one of those days – like Pearl Harbor Day and the assassination of John F. Kennedy – that almost everyone then alive remembers. I’m talking about that day 50 years ago when Orson Welles scared Americans with his lifelike radio dramatization of … [Read more...] about The War of the Worlds
The American Civil Liberties Union
A critic wrote a letter-to-the-editor of one of the newspapers that carries my column and complained thusly: “She confuses my calm, rational thinking with facts.” Well, dear reader, here’s another column of “just the facts, ma’am.” Since the … [Read more...] about The American Civil Liberties Union
