Zero-Tolerence Stupidity: I've never been impressed by the so-called zero-tolerance craze. Too often it takes common sense out of the equation, and just ends up being stupid. In the wake of the Sept. 11 attacks, the airlines have taken to confiscating toenail clippers in passengers carry-on bags. Sorry, but if someone tries to hijack a […]
National Review's Larry Kudlow addresses the Enron failure -- and he's got it exactly right. This isn't about politics or campaign-finance reform -- it's about the law. The Enron and Arthur Andersen folks are crooks. Big-time crooks, but crooks nonetheless. Jail 'em. All the Enron and Arthur Andersen principals, and then some. Why? To save […]
I've never been particularly enamored of so-called human rights watchdogs like Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch. They're havens for limousine liberals whose main concern is cop-killers like Mumia Abu Jamal, and not for truly oppressed, like Christians in Sudan, Indonesia and China. An excellent article in today's Wall Street Journal echoes this complaint and […]
Bernard Goldberg, author of the best-selling book Bias, strikes back in an op-ed piece in today's Washington Post. Both Michael Kinsley and Tom Shales had assailed Goldberg's work, using mainly ad hominem attacks. After presenting his liberal bona fides -- Goldberg voted for presidential candidate George McGovern -- Goldberg tackles the bias issue again. While […]
So, China has found about 20 bugs on a plane built in the U.S. for President Jiang Zemin. Well, what do you expect? We just wanted to know how much money the Chinese would be demanding the next time one of their hot-shot pilots rams into one of our surveillance planes over international waters.
The Nation is the political left's answer to National Review...only a lot more stupid. In today's "Best of the Web Today" column, James Taranto points out an egregious mistake in the first sentence of an article trying to connect Bush to the Enron bankruptcy. When George W. Bush co-owned the Houston Astros and construction began […]
I know it may be hard to believe, but Democratic Rep. Henry Waxman is at it again. Waxman is leading the charge trying to find some way to tie the Enron bankruptcy to the Bush Administration. Thankfully, it doesn't appear to be working thus far, mainly because there's no evidence to support claims of preferential […]
The Wall Street Journal's John Fund takes on the issue of greed and history in a column in today's paper. The family of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr. have held tight to the rights to his speeches and words, to the detriment of history and education. Anyone attempting to use the late […]
Well, I saw a television commercial for the upcoming movie "A Walk to Remember," based on the novel of the same name by Nicholas Sparks. The TV spot concerned me, so I went onto the Internet looking for the longer trailer. I found it here. You can watch it yourself, but after reading the novel, […]