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In the aftermath of the women’s soccer championship there has been an outpouring of statism. Hardly a mention of the victory is made without someone trying to convince us that it would not have been possible without the help of government. The specific law to which they refer is the 1972 amendment to the federal civil rights act, better known as

The recent deaths of John F. Kennedy, Jr., his bride, and her sister, are tragic for their families, their friends, and the staff at George Magazine . For all of the media hype, however, it is not a national tragedy any more than it is a national calamity that several other private pilots died in crashes on the same day. Of course, the sudden

Alabama voters seem to have temporarily derailed the nationwide gambling express with their rejection of a state-run lottery in that state. In November, voters in South Carolina will decide whether or not to continue to allow gambling in the form of payouts for video poker. Both cases are portrayed by the media as the Baptists (and other religious

While computer experts have frantically tried to update software to avoid the dreaded Y2K glitch, and while others who are convinced the apocalypse is upon us have headed to the hills, we should pause to remember that other Y2K crisis that was supposed to have been upon us. According to former President Jimmy Carter, the world was supposed to end

Presidential candidate Patrick Buchanan has spoken out against U.S. led economic sanctions against Iraq, which according to all observers have wreaked havoc in that unfortunate land. [Read his speech here .] Buchanan spoke forcefully and eloquently about how sanctions are killing about 60,000 Iraqi children a year and how the internationally

As the debate rages as to whether or not the symbolism-conscious mainstream media has duped us into celebrating the end of a “99-year” century, it is still not a bad time to look back and take stock of where we have gone in the last 100 years. At best, we see a myriad of contradictions: the growth of the leviathan state, yet a continuous march of

While Franklin Delano Roosevelt narrowly missed being Time Magazine’s “Man of the Century,” there is no doubt that the man who prolonged the Great Depression and helped lay the groundwork for World War II looms large in the consciousness of statist journalists and historians. Although FDR’s role in the Second World War is of utmost importance to

The current Democratic Presidential debate between Vice President Al Gore and former U.S. Senator Bill Bradley seems to hinge on large part upon who has the “health care plan” that best appeals to voters. Both candidates apparently are claiming that a “crisis” exists and that their plan would “fix” whatever ails American medicine. Good luck. To

John F. Kennedy has many enduring legacies. Aside from his personal corruption, he embroiled the United States in the Vietnam War, something that still has repercussions more than three decades later. And he presided over the beginnings of unprecedented expansion of the powers of the national government under the guise of the “New Frontier.”

When Atlanta Braves pitcher John Rocker ignited controversy with his now-infamous remarks to Sports Illustrated , a “national dialogue” of sorts sprang up on the airwaves and the internet. While most of the exchange centered around the wisdom of Major League Baseball’s Soviet-style decision to send Rocker to a psychiatrist, more than one