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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


Forbes

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Issue Title
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