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Date
Title
04/26/05
Disinformation on judges
04/19/05
Easy money in California
04/15/05
College admissions voodoo
04/12/05
Above criticism?
04/06/05
Who is liberal?
04/05/05
Liberal attitudes
04/01/05
April fools' party
03/31/05
Stupidity trickling down
03/29/05
Random thoughts
03/28/05
Killing Terri Schiavo, Part II
03/25/05
Killing Terri Schiavo
03/22/05
‘Cruel and unusual’
03/15/05
Cynicism exposed
03/11/05
Good riddance to Rather
03/10/05
High Noon for judges: Part III
03/09/05
High Noon for judges: Part II
03/08/05
High Noon for judges: Part I
03/01/05
Believing the true believers
02/18/05
Tainted media
02/15/05
"Academic freedom"?
02/09/05
Filtering out the best
02/08/05
Ending slavery
02/04/05
Bedroom economics
02/01/05
Victory and Defeat
01/27/05
Self-indulgent orgies
01/25/05
Fourth Estate or Fifth Column?
01/21/05
Medical lawsuits
01/20/05
Social Insecurity?
01/13/05
I beg to disagree
01/07/05
The Left monopoly
01/06/05
A wave of criticism
01/03/05
Gay marriage ‘rights’
12/31/04
Property rites, Part II
12/30/04
Property rites
12/29/04
Free lunch ‘safety’, Part II
12/28/04
Free lunch ‘safety’
12/24/04
The Joseph Goebbels award
12/23/04
A huge election in Iraq
12/17/04
Give the gift of books!
12/16/04
Green bigots international
12/15/04
Law or soap opera?
12/10/04
Phony ‘ethics’
12/09/04
Angelo all over again?
12/07/04
Once in a lifetime
12/06/04
Random thoughts
12/02/04
No heroes?
11/25/04
A taxing experience
11/19/04
The unlimited enemy
11/18/04
'Supporting the troops'?
11/11/04
An ominous Specter, Part III
11/10/04
An ominous Specter, Part II
11/09/04
An ominous Specter
11/05/04
The oldest fraud
11/04/04
A charlatan?
11/02/04
A charlatan?
10/29/04
Media disgrace
10/28/04
Stop and think, Part IV
10/27/04
Stop and think, Part III
10/26/04
Stop and think, Part II
10/25/04
Stop and think
10/22/04
‘Tax cuts for the rich!’
10/21/04
‘Plans’ versus realities
10/20/04
ABC News or ABC spin
10/18/04
The tyranny of visions, Part III
10/15/04
The tyranny of visions, Part II
10/14/04
The tyranny of visions
10/12/04
The media's role
10/11/04
Responsible voting
09/29/04
Privatizing social security, Part II
09/28/04
Privatizing social security
09/24/04
Green versus Black
09/23/04
A blank resume
09/21/04
An old war and a new one
09/20/04
Rather not
09/15/04
Choosing a college
09/14/04
'Price gouging' in Florida
09/10/04
Jobs and snow jobs, Part II
09/09/04
Jobs and snow jobs
09/08/04
The 'compassion' racket
09/03/04
Democrats for Bush
08/26/04
Vets vs. Kerry on Vietnam, Part III
08/25/04
Vets vs. Kerry on Vietnam, Part II
08/24/04
Vets vs. Kerry on Vietnam
08/23/04
Two versions of Vietnam
08/20/04
Alan Keyes in Illinois, Part II
08/19/04
Alan Keyes in Illinois
08/17/04
A painful anniversary
08/12/04
Random thoughts
08/11/04
Power versus knowledge
08/09/04
Kerry knows that an ‘educated consumer’ won't be
his
‘customer’
08/06/04
The left's vocabulary
08/05/04
The left's vision
08/03/04
Sharing the lawsuit wealth
08/02/04
Missing years
07/30/04
Electing an image
07/27/04
Intelligent intelligence?
07/23/04
The grand fallacy, Part II
07/22/04
The grand fallacy
07/14/04
Digital disgust
07/13/04
‘Friends’ of blacks
07/12/04
Foreign ‘allies’
07/09/04
Political malpractice
07/08/04
Irresponsible politics
07/06/04
Ever wonder why?, Part III
07/02/04
Ever wonder why?, Part II
07/01/04
Ever wonder why?
06/29/04
Ace journalists failing economics
06/24/04
Random thoughts
06/23/04
Summer de-programming
06/21/04
Budget fat
06/18/04
Silencing whom?
06/16/04
Symbolism vs. substance in Iraq
06/15/04
Lying about Yosemite
06/10/04
Talkers versus doers, Part II
06/09/04
Talkers versus doers
06/08/04
RONALD REAGAN (1911-2004)
06/04/04
'Partial truth' abortion
06/03/04
War: Then and now
06/01/04
The "working poor" scam
05/28/04
Animal rites
05/26/04
A pattern of opportunism
05/25/04
Bravo for Bill Cosby
05/20/04
Justice for little Angelo
05/19/04
The hyena press, Part II
05/18/04
The hyena press
05/14/04
Half a century after Brown, Part III
05/13/04
Half a century after Brown, Part II
05/12/04
Half a century after Brown
05/11/04
War within a war
05/06/04
No-cost decision-making
05/05/04
Random thoughts
05/04/04
The 'cost' of medical care
04/29/04
Bing Crosby: Singer of the Century
04/28/04
Bait-and-switch media
04/27/04
Will we allow HillaryCare to finally take hold?
04/23/04
Criminalizing business, Part II
04/22/04
Criminalizing business
04/16/04
Random thoughts
04/15/04
Titanic irresponsibility: Part II
04/14/04
Titanic irresponsibility
04/09/04
Counting the costs, Part II
04/08/04
Counting the costs
04/05/04
Fixing the jury system
03/30/04
My platform
03/25/04
Random thoughts
03/24/04
Rattling the chains
03/23/04
Outsourcing foreign policy
03/19/04
Subsidies are all wet
03/17/04
‘Why do they hate us?’
03/16/04
‘Outsourcing’
03/10/04
The globalization of quotas
03/09/04
‘Gay marriage’ confusions
03/03/04
Nader's glitter
03/02/04
The problem with the gay marriage issue
02/26/04
Parents with backbone
02/25/04
Random thoughts
02/24/04
Big Lie of the year
02/19/04
Equality, inequality, and fate
02/18/04
The inequality dogma
02/17/04
The equality dogma
02/11/04
The brotherhood of men
02/10/04
Weapons of political destruction
02/05/04
Housing hurdles, Part III
02/05/04
Housing hurdles, Part II
02/04/04
Housing hurdles
02/03/04
‘Special interests’
01/29/04
Phony ‘debates’
01/28/04
Third World sweatshops, Part II
01/27/04
Third World sweatshops
01/22/04
Stretching the poor
01/21/04
Lessons from Iowa
01/15/04
Manufacturing confusion
01/14/04
Random thoughts
01/06/04
Mealy mouth media
12/31/03
Two earthquakes
12/26/03
Profits Without Honor: Part III
12/24/03
Profits Without Honor: Part II
12/23/03
Profits without honor
12/18/03
Quagmire seekers
12/17/03
Twisted history
12/16/03
Courts without law
12/12/03
Economic 'Power'
12/10/03
The Wright stuff
12/09/03
My holiday book picks
12/05/03
The high cost of busybodies, Part IV
12/04/03
The high costs of busybodies, Part III
12/03/03
The high costs of busybodies, Part II
12/02/03
The high costs of busybodies
11/28/03
Random thoughts
11/26/03
"Fairness" fanatics
11/19/03
Judges and judgment
11/18/03
Letters about medical care
11/17/03
Free-lunch medicine: Part III
11/14/03
Free-lunch medicine, Part II
11/13/03
Free-lunch medicine
11/10/03
Senator Feinstein and property rights
11/05/03
"Living wage" kills jobs
11/04/03
Achievements and their causes
10/30/03
Legalizing the illegals
10/29/03
Spinning education
10/28/03
The politics of judicial nominees
10/24/03
A lynch mob gathers, Part III
10/22/03
A lynch mob gathers, Part II
10/21/03
A lynch mob gathers
10/16/03
The war against success
10/15/03
Vouchers and votes
10/14/03
Is California crazy?
10/09/03
Great myths about the Great Depression
10/03/03
On Racial Censorship and Rush Limbaugh
10/01/03
Silly Letters
09/29/03
Random Thoughts
09/26/03
School performances, Part III
09/25/03
School performances, Part II
09/24/03
School performances
09/19/03
Roasting Walter Williams
09/17/03
California's real problem
09/16/03
Risky business
09/11/03
The autism "spectrum"
09/09/03
A new contract?
09/05/03
Experts without expertise
09/03/03
SHOCK in California
08/28/03
"Fairness" in sentencing
08/26/03
Old rhetoric in new times
08/12/03
The real voting
08/07/03
Cameras in the courtroom
08/04/03
Peers and Pied Pipers
07/31/03
Are Cops Racist?
07/28/03
Random thoughts
07/24/03
Weapons of political destruction
07/17/03
Who's rich? Part II
07/16/03
Who's rich?
07/14/03
SUMMER READING: PART II
07/11/03
SUMMER READING
07/09/03
"Saving" Bay Meadows
07/03/03
The Fourth of July
07/01/03
No media bias?
06/30/03
A glimpse of reality
06/26/03
Saving quotas
06/20/03
The legacy of Eric Hoffer, Part II
06/19/03
The legacy of Eric Hoffer
06/17/03
Drugs and politics
06/12/03
Random thoughts
06/10/03
Umpires, judges and others
06/05/03
International affirmative action
06/03/03
Utopia versus U.S.
05/30/03
An appalling idiocy, Part III
05/29/03
An appalling idiocy, Part II
05/28/03
An appalling idiocy
05/22/03
Ten years later
05/20/03
Useful Idiots
05/19/03
The first lesson?
05/16/03
A sign of The Time
05/15/03
Unfit to print
05/08/03
"Universal health care": Part III
05/07/03
"Universal health care": Part II
05/06/03
"Universal health care"
05/05/03
Work pays!
05/01/03
A couple of clues
04/23/03
Quota "logic," Part II
04/22/03
Quota "logic"
04/21/03
Human livestock
04/17/03
A petty, partisan press
04/14/03
Random thoughts on the passing scene
04/11/03
The media and the war
04/09/03
Academia and the war
04/04/03
The grand fraud: Part IV
04/03/03
The grand fraud: Part III
04/02/03
The grand fraud: Part II
04/01/03
The grand fraud
03/31/03
Foreign "aid"
03/28/03
Artificial stupidity
03/25/03
Who is pro-war?
03/20/03
Random thoughts
03/17/03
Pete vs. Joe
03/14/03
A death in the family
03/12/03
The other filibuster
03/06/03
"Diversity" for thee, not me
03/03/03
The idiocy of "relevance"
02/27/03
Twin disasters
02/24/03
Undeclared wars
02/20/03
Instant Rush?
02/14/03
Random thoughts
02/12/03
Big business and quotas
02/10/03
Damaging admissions
02/06/03
For what purpose?
02/03/03
A cold shower
01/30/03
Disarming a country
01/23/03
A deadly pretense
01/16/03
Hard times for envy
01/14/03
Economics vs. politics
01/10/03
Quotas on Trial: Part II
01/08/03
Quotas on trial
01/06/03
Dangers ahead -- from the Right
01/02/03
Dangers ahead -- from the Left
12/30/02
Flagging flagships
12/27/02
Dangerous democracy?
12/18/02
Lott, race, and hypocrisy: Part II
12/17/02
Lott, race, and hypocrisy
12/16/02
Random thoughts
12/13/02
LOTT IS TOO MUCH
12/11/02
Holiday book picks!
12/06/02
Disastrous utopia
12/04/02
Media bias about media bias
12/02/02
Gun control myths: Part III
11/27/02
Gun Control myths: Part II
11/26/02
Gun control myths
11/25/02
The voices of compromise are always seductive
11/22/02
Who is promoting violence?
11/19/02
Judging judges
11/18/02
Whither Republicans?
11/15/02
A San Francisco liberal
11/12/02
Whither Dems?
11/11/02
Race and Cant
11/07/02
Political history -- and the future
11/05/02
Mondale's "experience"
11/04/02
Boring sportscasts
11/01/02
Random thoughts
10/30/02
Disgruntled conservatives
10/29/02
In that voting booth
10/28/02
Explaining to the grandkids
10/24/02
High stakes elections
10/21/02
Facing up to Evil
10/18/02
The Sniper and the Gun Controllers
10/15/02
Ignoble Prize
10/14/02
The Houdini Award
10/06/02
Dangerous Restraint
10/04/02
Race and IQ: Part III
10/03/02
The Reparations Fraud
10/02/02
Race and IQ: Part II
10/01/02
Race and IQ
09/30/02
Latest version of old ploy
09/26/02
The return of Al Gore
09/19/02
One-uppers versus survival
09/13/02
Emotional orgies
09/12/02
Random thoughts
09/06/02
"Friends" of blacks: Part II
09/04/02
"Friends" of blacks
08/30/02
Too much of a good thing?
08/29/02
The media and the military
08/26/02
"Teaching to the test": Part III
08/22/02
"Teaching to the test": Part II
08/20/02
Teaching to the test
08/19/02
Slaves to words
08/15/02
Random thoughts
08/09/02
"Unnecessary attention"
08/06/02
Economic ethnic cleansing
08/01/02
Bad medicine
07/30/02
At what cost?
07/29/02
Milton Friedman at 90
07/25/02
Stock crash aftermath
07/23/02
Two trials -- and future trials
07/22/02
Pioneers in photography
07/18/02
Indignation, Inc.
07/16/02
California's liberal Senator favors arming pilots and the Bushies don't!?
07/15/02
Voucher backlash
07/11/02
A scary report
07/09/02
Suspicious stats
07/08/02
Random thoughts
07/02/02
Vouchers vindicated
07/01/02
Death sentences
06/28/02
Religion and the Constitution
06/26/02
Tough questions
06/24/02
Judicial ad hocracy
06/20/02
Will the Catholic Church try to restore its credibility?
06/13/02
Time to confront the great dangers in trying members of international terrorist organizations in our courts
06/11/02
What to do about enemies already living within this country
06/10/02
An old "new vision"
06/07/02
Global lying
06/05/02
The art of the impossible
06/03/02
Priceless politics
05/30/02
What's So Great About America?
05/28/02
An ancient fallacy
05/24/02
A winning issue
05/22/02
Next stop: Supreme Court?
05/20/02
Stereotypes about stereotypes
05/16/02
Who is crazy?
05/13/02
Peter Bauer's uphill battle against prevailing orthodoxies
05/09/02
Tired of race?
05/06/02
Peace: The confusion between mechanism and a cause
05/03/02
Anniversary of a riot
04/29/02
Random thoughts
04/18/02
"Good" teachers
04/16/02
Another war created by pacifism
04/12/02
Firing people
04/10/02
Mideast madness
04/08/02
Why economists are not popular
04/05/02
A scam at tax time
04/04/02
The great meeting expose
04/01/02
Foreign "aid"
03/25/02
Courtroom lies
03/21/02
HISTORY vs. HOGWASH
03/18/02
Naming names
03/15/02
The Andrea Yates verdict
03/14/02
Race rationales vs. results
03/12/02
The high cost of shibboleths
03/08/02
On growing old
03/06/02
"Diversity" in India
03/04/02
How to strengthen the GOP
03/01/02
The IQ exemption
02/27/02
Who needs "Black history month"?
02/25/02
Real political reform
02/22/02
Forget about Enron. How about government-sanctioned pyramid schemes?
02/19/02
Holiday revisionism
02/14/02
Political peddling and soap
02/11/02
The housing farce: Part II
02/07/02
The housing farce
02/01/02
Random thoughts
01/30/02
Re-runs of "Roots"
01/28/02
Abstract people
01/24/02
Death of the West?
01/23/02
The education bill
01/14/02
Infallible haters?
01/11/02
If we were serious
01/09/02
Enemies within
01/07/02
The reparations fraud: II
01/03/02
The reparations fraud
12/31/01
Was the ball juiced?
12/27/01
A 'new era'?
12/20/01
Random Thoughts
12/17/01
MEDIA FRAUD
12/14/01
Holiday book picks --- must reads!
12/12/01
Phony "victims"
12/06/01
Shibboleths versus survival
12/03/01
To stop being hated, we need not to succeed when others fail
11/29/01
The underminers
11/26/01
Drugs and politics
11/21/01
Thanksgiving and "fairness"
11/16/01
Diversity versus "diversity"
11/14/01
Another outrage
11/07/01
The media and the terrorists
11/01/01
Life at the Bottom
10/30/01
Routine cruelty
10/25/01
Does it add up?
10/22/01
Do facts matter?: Part II
10/18/01
Do facts matter?
10/16/01
Barry and the Babe
10/11/01
Loose lips
10/08/01
The autism dilemma
10/04/01
Islam and the West
09/28/01
Capital gains and "trickle down"
09/26/01
Love those killers!
09/24/01
Pacifism and war
09/21/01
Random thoughts on the passing scene
09/14/01
Just the beginning?
09/13/01
Our foreign policy speaks loudly and carries a little stick
09/11/01
Getting this behind you
09/06/01
The magic word
08/30/01
The Einstein Syndrome
08/27/01
Choosing the correct college
08/23/01
Drugging children
08/20/01
Barry Bonds' great season
08/16/01
The "autism" dragnet
08/13/01
"Racism" in word and deed
08/10/01
Property rites
08/08/01
Victimizing blacks
08/06/01
Chandra Levy clues
08/02/01
Spin versus sense
08/01/01
Minimum journalism
07/30/01
Social Security vs. privatization
07/26/01
Is the family becoming extinct?
07/20/01
Are we still Americans?
07/17/01
A cynical charade
07/12/01
India Unbound
07/09/01
A political masterpiece
07/05/01
The mail monopoly
07/03/01
July 4th: Love it or lose it
06/28/01
Lying statistics
06/21/01
Global hot air
06/15/01
McVeigh and the death penalty
06/12/01
Random thoughts
06/07/01
Intended consequences
06/06/01
State stealing
06/04/01
Shocked by the obvious
05/31/01
Politics vs. economics
05/29/01
The high costs of politics
05/24/01
Green bigots versus human beings
05/22/01
We are all "drop outs"
05/16/01
The high cost of demons
05/14/01
Blacks, Hispanics and education
05/10/01
Social Security and the stock market
05/03/01
Easy economics and complicated politics
04/26/01
"The duty to die"
04/18/01
Poisonous politics
04/12/01
"Campaign finance reform" follies
04/05/01
"Feel good" laws
04/02/01
I'm a victim of 'racial profiling'
03/26/01
Education or incitement?
03/26/01
"Conserving"
03/23/01
An old problem returns
03/22/01
Storm troopers vs. free speech
03/19/01
Ugliness in Yosemite
03/15/01
California dreaming
03/13/01
Getting rich quick
03/12/01
School disasters
03/08/01
The wrong question
03/07/01
The role of the rich
03/05/01
The dangers of "equality"
03/01/01
Merit and money
02/26/01
Back door quotas
02/22/01
Taxing the living and the dead
02/20/01
Magic transformations
02/15/01
Cheap shot justice
02/08/01
Wise versus smart II
02/07/01
Wise versus smart
01/31/01
No sense of proportion
01/29/01
Rolling blackouts
01/25/01
Basic Economics
01/22/01
Clintonian residue
01/19/01
What kind of man is John Ashcroft?
01/12/01
Electricity shocks California
01/05/01
Lessons
not
learned
01/04/01
What is the point of winning, if you are going to act as if you lost?
01/02/01
Greatness of a free-market economy? It does not depend upon the 'wisdom' of those momentarily at top
12/28/00
Justice and injustice
12/27/00
Random thoughts on the passing scene
12/21/00
Alice in Florida
12/19/00
My holiday gift-books picks
12/18/00
A gem of a book
12/15/00
Election facts versus myths
12/14/00
Ending a dangerous farce
12/12/00
No stinkin' badges?
12/11/00
Facts shatter visions
12/07/00
The ignored elephant
12/04/00
Poverty and the Left
11/30/00
Shameless lies
11/27/00
Every guess must count?
11/23/00
PLOYS R US
11/22/00
"Fair and just"
11/21/00
Phony issues in Florida
11/17/00
More desperate, more ugly
11/16/00
Desperate and ugly in Florida
11/06/00
What does it tell you?
11/03/00
Hillary and Al -- relics of the past
11/02/00
The stakes
10/27/00
Desperate and ugly
10/23/00
Gory "details" abroad
10/20/00
Gory "details"
10/17/00
Pro choice or pro monopoly?
10/13/00
Teachers' union lies
10/10/00
Facts, anyone?
10/05/00
The great (?) debate
10/02/00
Dems, GOPers, and blacks II
09/28/00
Dems, GOPers and blacks
09/25/00
Another double standard
09/21/00
Terminal triviality?
09/18/00
Drugged politics
09/15/00
Social security-- a "risky scheme"
09/11/00
Campus orientation
09/08/00
Looking back at a life's journey
09/01/00
Useful idiots
08/29/00
The politics of education
08/26/00
Casual cruelty
08/23/00
Politicians who "care"
08/21/00
Sanity in 'Frisco
08/18/00
Wake up, parents!
08/14/00
Blacks and bootstraps
08/11/00
Facts are "out"
08/08/00
Costs versus prices
08/04/00
A painful history
08/01/00
The "gravitas" game
07/31/00
Costs and decisions
07/28/00
The "costs" of government
07/26/00
Underlying assumptions
07/24/00
Government advertising
07/20/00
Lies about gas price "gouging"
07/19/00
Teachers' union gall
07/17/00
Reparations for slavery?
07/13/00
The media and the issues
07/11/00
America's dirty academic secret:
College sweatshops
07/07/00
The high cost of demons
07/05/00
Families and dictators
06/30/00
In love with America
06/27/00
Lies about Yosemite
06/23/00
Envy versus resentment
06/20/00
A Reply to teachers
06/15/00
The war against boys
06/12/00
Republicans and Rocky
06/06/00
"Most Favored Nation"
06/01/00
Gun control hypocrisy
05/26/00
School to school?
05/24/00
Random thoughts
05/19/00
Ignorance of freedom
05/17/00
The Million Lies March
05/16/00
Green bigotry in the Hamptons
05/12/00
Too much "education"?
05/09/00
The old neighborhood
05/05/00
"Unfair" advantages
05/02/00
A vice president for Bush?
04/28/00
Insuring problems
04/25/00
Elian's future -- and ours
04/24/00
An obscene charade
04/14/00
Wasting minds: II
04/07/00
Who's smart?
04/03/00
Stealing Yosemite
03/31/00
Campaign finance hypocrisy
03/24/00
'Notion of gay marriage' is product of sloppy thinking
03/21/00
A friend like Iago
03/16/00
Amazing politics
03/14/00
Lessons not learned
03/09/00
Affordable housing
03/07/00
Super Tuesday
03/06/00
Coalition politics
03/03/00
Law or mob rule?
02/29/00
Playing blacks for suckers
02/25/00
Amadou Diallo and me
02/24/00
Hypocrisy unravelling?
02/22/00
Is there a republic party?
02/17/00
Law on trial
02/15/00
The unasked question
02/11/00
Pandering to the anointed
02/09/00
Third kidneys and the Third World
02/07/00
Perennial economic fallacies
02/03/00
McCain: Image versus reality
02/01/00
Becoming the subject of a smear campaign
01/28/00
Are GOPers suicidal?
01/25/00
Senator McCain: A man of what principle?
01/20/00
Desperate for grievances
01/14/00
Success ignored
01/10/00
The Cuban boy
01/07/00
Retail socialism
01/05/00
The real revolutionaries
01/03/00
Robin Hood laws
12/31/99
The worst of the century
12/29/99
The best of the Century
12/27/99
The illusion of education reform
12/23/99
Wasting money on ivy?
12/20/99
The tests made me do it!
12/17/99
Why we have crooked landlords
12/15/99
Random thoughts on the passing scene
12/13/99
Testing integrity
12/09/99
My holiday book picks
12/07/99
The party line on late talkers
12/03/99
Mob rule in Seattle
11/30/99
Microsoft and campaign finance reform
11/24/99
Race and the new century
11/22/99
Sweeping success under the rug
11/18/99
Sorting by race
11/16/99
Failure and fraud
11/12/99
Microsoft and anti-trust "law"
11/05/99
Mice, giraffes and autism
10/29/99
Success concealing failure
10/25/99
Creating "poverty"
10/21/99
Anti-sports sportscasts
10/15/99
Let's hear it for unfairness!
10/08/99
Carrying a little stick
10/04/99
Pat's book being distorted?
10/01/99
Photography and economics
09/28/99
Elective indignation strikes again
09/23/99
The Pat Buchanan dilemma
09/20/99
What's wrong with big government
09/14/99
School choice wars
09/10/99
Goodby to Sara and Benjamin?
09/07/99
Compassionate conservatism is old stuff
08/31/99
Power to the assassins?
08/27/99
Blood in the water
08/24/99
Random thoughts
08/17/99
Moral anarchy and its consequences
08/13/99
Shooting the helpless
08/09/99
Forced to volunteer
08/05/99
Gunning for guns
08/03/99
Boomers and boomerangs
07/28/99
Is privacy an endangered species?
07/23/99
Emotional orgies
07/20/99
What's politics all about?
07/16/99
Politically incorrect heroism
07/12/99
Cutting edge California retreats to old, failed ideas
07/07/99
A quagmire and a vision
07/02/99
The Fourth of July
06/29/99
"Urban sprawl" and liberal gall
06/18/99
A famous victory
06/14/99
A victory in Chicago
06/10/99
Mass shootings and mass hysteria
06/08/99
The other side of affirmative action
06/03/99
Childish labor laws
06/01/99
Demonizing for dollars
05/27/99
The real public service
05/24/99
Income, taxes and demagoguery
05/18/99
Random thoughts
05/14/99
Aborted knowledge
05/10/99
The new "fairness"
05/04/99
Holding parents responsible
05/03/99
Exit strategies
04/28/99
Tragedy and farce
04/26/99
Guilt and cop-outs
04/21/99
Choosing a college
04/16/99
When success fails
04/13/99
A photo-op foreign policy
04/09/99
Russia and the Serbs
04/06/99
Random thoughts
03/31/99
Irresponsible "experts"
03/29/99
Another Doleful prospect?
03/23/99
Random thoughts
03/22/99
Loving enemies
03/19/99
Naming names
03/15/99
Undermining the military
03/10/99
Joe DiMaggio -- icon of an era
03/02/99
Facts versus dogma on guns
03/01/99
Losing the cultural wars
02/22/99
"Saving" social security
02/18/99
Too many Ph.Ds?
02/16/99
A national disaster
02/08/99
Economic fallacies in the media: Part II
02/05/99
Why economists visit dentists so often
02/02/99
Warning: Good news
01/29/99
What is at stake?
01/26/99
Moral bankruptcy in the schools
01/22/99
Who is going to convict Santa Claus?
01/19/99
Seeing through the spin
01/13/99
A trial is a trial is a trial
01/11/99
Trials and tribulations
01/08/99
Rays of hope
01/04/99
Random thoughts
12/31/98
The President versus the presidency
12/29/98
The time is now!
12/23/98
World-class hypocrisy
12/21/98
The spreading corruption
12/17/98
Politically "contrite"
12/16/98
Polls and partisanship
12/14/98
The "non-profit" halo
12/11/98
Corruption and confusion
12/03/98
The health care "crisis"
11/30/98
Knowing what you are talking about
11/25/98
The impeachment legacy
11/23/98
Random thoughts
11/19/98
Tales out of bureaucracies
11/16/98
Scholarships based on scholarship
11/12/98
Forward march
11/09/98
Moral outrage
11/05/98
Will the Republicans ever learn?
11/02/98
A voter's duty
10/30/98
The poverty pimp's poem
10/29/98
Random thoughts on the election
10/27/98
"Partisan" and "unfair"
10/23/98
Ed-u-kai-tchun
10/21/98
McGwire, Maris and the Babe
10/20/98
MURDER IS MURDER!
10/16/98
Lightweight Boxer
10/14/98
A strange word
10/09/98
Impeachment Standards
10/08/98
Alternatives to seriousness
10/07/98
Heredity, environment and talk
10/02/98
A much-needed guide
10/01/98
Starr's real crime
09/24/98
Costs and power
09/18/98
Are we sheep?
09/16/98
Judicial review
09/15/98
Hillary Rodham Crook?
09/14/98
Taking stock
09/11/98
Moment of Truth
09/04/98
Random Thoughts
08/31/98
The twilight of special prosecutors?
08/26/98
"Doing a good job"
08/24/98
America on trial?
08/19/98
Played for fools
08/17/98
A childish letter
08/11/98
Hiding behind a woman
08/07/98
A flying walrus in Washington?
08/03/98
"Affordability" strikes again
07/31/98
Random Thoughts
07/27/98
Faith and Mountains
07/24/98
Clinton in Wonderland
07/20/98
Where is black 'leadership' leading?
07/16/98
Do 'minorities' really have it that bad?
07/14/98
Race dialogue: same old stuff
07/10/98
Honest history
07/09/98
Dumb is dangerous
07/02/98
Gun-safety starts with parental responsibility
06/30/98
When more is less
06/29/98
Are educators above the law?
06/26/98
Random Thoughts
06/24/98
An angry letter
06/22/98
Sixties sentimentalism
06/19/98
Dumbing down anti-trust
06/15/98
A changing of the guard?
06/11/98
Presidential privileges
06/08/98
Fast computers and slow antitrust
06/03/98
Can stalling backfire?
05/29/98
The insulation of the Left
05/25/98
Missing the point in the media
05/22/98
The lessons of Indonesia
05/20/98
Smart but silent
05/18/98
Israel, Clinton and character
05/14/98
Monica Lewinsky's choices
05/11/98
Random thoughts
05/07/98
Media obstruction of justice
05/04/98
Dangerous "safety"
05/01/98
Abolish Adolescence!
04/30/98
The naked truth
04/22/98
Playing fair and square
04/19/98
Bad Teachers
04/15/98
Clinton in Africa
04/13/98
Bundling and unbundling
04/09/98
Rising or falling Starr
04/06/98
Was Clinton "vindicated"?
03/26/98
Disasters -- natural and political
03/24/98
A pattern of behavior
03/22/98
Innocent explanations
03/19/98
Kathleen Willey and Anita Hill
03/17/98
Search and destroy
03/12/98
Media Circus versus Justice
03/06/98
Vindication
03/03/98
Cheap Shot Time
02/26/98
The Wrong Filter
02/24/98
Trial by Media
02/20/98
Dancing Around the Realities
02/19/98
A "Do Something" War?
02/12/98
Julian Simon, combatant in a 200-year war
02/06/98
A Rush to Rhetoric
02/02/98
The Clinton "Legacy"
01/28/98
Clinton Scenarios
01/23/98
Walter Mitty Rides Again
01/22/98
Allies or Clones?
01/15/98
Liberals, Conservatives, and Race
01/07/98
Shut Up and Dialogue
01/05/98
Greed in government
12/30/97
The Invasion of the Touchie-Feelies
12/18/97
"Reasearch" Marches On
12/16/97
Global Hot Air
12/11/97
Cooling Out the Mark
12/09/97
Monologue or Dialogue on Race?
12/01/97
Christmas Shopping
11/20/97
The Johnny Cochran of the Education Establishment
11/07/97
Totalitarians in Yosemite
11/05/97
Most Foolish Notion
10/30/97
Random Thoughts
10/23/97
Shallow People Playing God
10/16/97
How "Rich" Is Rich?
10/09/97
Anti-"Elitism" in Education
10/02/97
Bribes or Protection Money?
09/23/97
The Mischief of Labels
09/18/97
The Death of Vince Foster
09/11/97
Random Thoughts
09/10/97
The Death of Diana -- and of Privacy
09/04/97
Old Friend Vanishes!
08/29/97
Character and the Future
08/21/97
Let's Stipulate!
08/14/97
Republicans and Longitude
08/07/97
Early Intervention
08/01/97
What Money Can't Buy
07/29/97
Two Kinds of "Rich"
07/17/97
Random Thoughts
07/11/97
Body Count Versus Education
07/03/97
Silent But Brilliant
06/26/97
Smothered by Blanket Excuses
06/12/97
Misunderstanding the Marshall Plan
06/06/97
Feminazis and Paula Jones
06/05/97
Expensive Harm
05/30/97
Raising Other People's Children
05/29/97
Random Thoughts
05/23/97
Policies Based On Lies
05/16/97
Public Schools Versus Parents
05/15/97
Tiger, Tiger, Burning Bright
05/13/97
Waltzing Around the Truth
05/01/97
Fraud in Philly
04/24/97
Random Thoughts
04/22/97
Will Chemical Weapons Be Banned?
04/14/97
Glimpse of Academe
04/13/97
Wooden Spoons and Social Programs
04/03/97
The Larger Suicide
03/27/97
Scalia for President?
03/21/97
Preserving Out Luck
03/20/97
Random Thoughts
03/14/97
The Death of a Friend
03/13/97
Looking Backward -- And Forward
03/05/97
Kangaroo Court in Academia
03/04/97
Has Clinton Finally Gone Too Far?
02/26/97
Science Versus Political Correctness
02/22/97
Crazy Housing Policies
02/21/97
Intolerance in Academia
02/13/97
Bipartisan Baloney in Washington?
02/12/97
The Irony of Black History Month
02/08/97
Cruelty to the Innocent
02/07/97
A Well-Conceived Fraud
01/30/97
Random Thoughts
01/23/97
Getting it Behind Them
01/16/97
"Ebonics" Rides Again
01/13/97
Colleges Versus Education
01/10/97
The Social Security Pyramid
01/03/97
Brainwashing Continues
01/02/97
The Federalist Papers Revisited
12/27/96
From Marxism to the Market
12/20/96
Christmas List
12/19/96
Random Thoughts
12/13/96
The Past Election -- And the Next Election
12/05/96
Safety Blitz
12/03/96
Vetoing Democracy
11/27/96
Just Say "No"
11/25/96
An Anniversary in Australia
11/22/96
Betrayals Continue
11/15/96
Confessions of an Ex-Tycoon
11/13/96
Signs of the Times
11/08/96
Random Thoughts
11/01/96
It's the Long Run, Stupid!
10/28/96
Strangers Raising Your Children
10/26/96
Racism Under New Management
10/25/96
The "Character Issue"
10/18/96
Dirty Secrets About "Affirmative Action"
10/03/96
Weasel Words and Affirmative Action
09/27/96
Trading Freedom for Basketball Tickets
09/23/96
More Education "Reform"
09/20/96
A Bad Rap
09/04/96
Other People's Money
08/28/96
Shrinking the Issues
08/21/96
Utopia and Affirmative Action
08/08/96
Education or Power Play?
07/31/96
Amnesia in the White House
07/31/96
Fiery Rhetoric
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07/26/99
Race, romance and the price of eggs
06/14/99
Is Chicago going soft?
05/31/99
Lies, damned lies and blurs
05/17/99
Social dogmas and pseudoscience
05/03/99
Predatory prosecution
04/19/99
What trust fund?
02/08/99
My overreaching PC
01/11/99
Safety and wealth
11/30/98
Titanic problems in academe
10/12/98
Privacy and piracy
09/21/98
Bundled up
09/07/98
An outbreak of sanity
08/10/98
anti-American Americans
07/06/98
Two books for the price of one
06/15/98
Check it out
05/18/98
Instructions that do not instruct
04/20/98
Millennial Politics
03/23/98
Scientists need not apply
02/23/98
Inarticulate RePublicans
01/26/98
Legal lynchings
12/29/97
A new tribalism
12/15/97
Freedom versus democracy
11/17/97
Geography as Destiny
10/20/97
Magic Numbers
10/6/97
How "affirmative action" hurts blacks
09/22/97
Dangerous labels
09/08/97
The Survival of the left
07/07/97
Unnecessary complexity
06/16/97
Surrendering to the multiculturalists
06/02/97
Weasel word on immigration
05/19/97
Supply-side politics
04/21/97
Politics in one lesson
03/24/97
Trading blood for pizza
02/24/97
Glimpses of academe
01/27/97
Ebonics: Follow The Money
01/13/97
Moral melodramas
12/16/96
Cosmic justice and human reality
11/18/96
"Vitriolic" facts
10/21/96
English versus Washington speak
09/23/96
Reflections on term limits
07/15/96
Dog-in-the-manger politics