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Propose that energy needs be met through more production, and up will go the cry from the left: not production but conservation! Have these people had a new idea since the New Deal? In 1943, the Government Printing Office for the Office of Price Administration made a placard that read: “When you ride ALONE you ride with Hitler!” Hence, supporting

Patricia Ireland and her National Organization for Women have released a statement attacking the Bush budget and tax-cut plan. She points to deficiencies in tax revenue and spending by virtue of accusing Bush of “pushing budget and tax cuts that will hurt women’s physical and economic health as well as the safety of women and families.” No, George

We’ve all listened to the incessant criminalizing of SUVs and of those who have a fondness for driving them. The anti-SUV crowd is led by the maniacal green people, though they are joined by the carpool fanciers and the general collectivist rank-and-file that despises anything remotely resembling status or success. And, let’s face it, an imposing

You see it in daycare centers, and you see it in the public schools, from kindergarten to high school. Group projects abound, shoving together individuals who have no formal bonds, yet are banded together for the purpose of collective decision-making. Universities, both public and private, are not immune to this affliction. In fact, if you attend

Waiting To Inhale . By Alan Bock. (Seven Locks Press, 2000, 286 pages) $18.95. Alan Bock, senior editorial writer for the Orange County Register , knows marijuana. Bock has covered California’s medical marijuana initiative, Proposition 215, since the movement began in 1996. His book, Waiting to Inhale , gives its readers a smoking inside look at

Every wartime president is hailed as one of the great ones, including Lincoln, Wilson, FDR, and, now, Bush. In polls of presidential “greatness,” the former three constantly rank at or near the top. In presidential popularity polls since 9/11, Bush’s fashionableness has skyrocketed. The talk is that he is another one certain to “go down in history

Once again, the nation has been graced with the mothering wing of its congressional collective. The Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility, and Transparency Act (CARTA) passed the House with a whopping 334-90 tally, opening the doors to unbridled regulatory madness in the wake of Arthur Andersen’s Enron-related transgressions. 

The Fifty-Year Wound: The True Price of America’s Cold War Victory . By Derek Leebaert. (Little, Brown & Company, 2002, 750 pages) $29.95. The upshot of the 1960s was more than just LSD, Haight-Ashbury, and the Kennedys in the White House. This era was also largely munificent in bestowing upon Americans the greatest burdens of Cold War vice. The

David is a remarkably diligent businessman from Mesa, Arizona, and his Goliaths are the many arms of the State.  David made an enemy of the State because he dared to legally push the boundaries of the police state.  He did so during a crusade aimed at the prevention of further regime encroachment into the lives of others.  David’s story is one of

The accusations against Wal-Mart are numerous, and they include: paying overseas workers too little; not paying benefits to part-time workers; refusing to sell items that don’t fall within its criteria for being “family-oriented”; not giving enough back to the community; and discriminating against women. All the accusations leveled against