The idea that free trade with despotic regimes -- bringing to their people more wealth, democratic ideas and a glimpse of what freedom is -- will somehow, eventually, undermine the ruling elite is an idea embraced by many on both sides of the political spectrum. There's just one problem: There's little evidence that it actually […]
Or not enough of the right (and by that I mean correct, not politically right) single men? The always interesting Robert Musil has some analysis on the situation today, capped by the following anecdote. Recently, over dinner, a slender, beautiful, young, intelligent. educated, securities sales woman employed by one of the big New York investment […]
They don't mix. NEW YORK (Reuters) - There is a 50 percent probability that the 2004 Atlantic hurricane season will have above-normal activity, the National Oceanic and Atmosphere Administration (NOAA) said in its outlook. Sigh.
Well, you knew there was never going to be a clean sweep. The New York Times editorial page opines on the discovery of a sarin-filled artillery shell rigged to be a roadside bomb. The Times has been among those assailing President Bush in recent months for flawed intelligence and the failure to find any weapons […]
Yes, it's one of the signs of the end of the world, according to the Ghostbusters. This is another: Hoystory wholeheartedly agreeing with an editorial in The New York Times. Entitled, "Gasoline hysteria," the editorial makes the case that Democrat calls for tapping the Strategic Petroleum Reserve are misguided, deceitful and transparently political. As the […]
The guy is certainly no conservative, but comedian Bill Cosby (who has a Ph.D. in education) is too smart to buy the black victimhood idea. Bill Cosby was anything but politically correct in his remarks Monday night at a Constitution Hall bash commemorating the 50th anniversary of the Brown v. Board of Education decision. To […]