I mentioned last week that one of my colleagues at work had dismissed race-baiter and hatemonger Al Sharpton as "harmless." With Sharpton's background as the main promoter of the Tawana Brawley hoax, inciting the Crown Heights riots -- which left one Orthodox Jew dead -- and the massacre at Freddy's Fashion Mart, I found his […]
As I read David Cay Johnston's book on the U.S. tax system, I kept thinking of Upton Sinclair's "The Jungle." I first read "The Jungle" the summer before my junior year of high school for my Advanced Placement U.S. History class. Sinclair's novel is the story of an immigrant family trying to make it in […]
For those hoping that the Kerry campaign would take a civil, high-minded approach to the 2004 contest following the Democrat convention, those hopes have been quickly dashed. From Kerry's acceptance speech: I want to address these next words directly to President George W. Bush: In the weeks ahead, let's be optimists, not just opponents. Let's […]