Leave The Decadent Businessman Alone!
Dov Charney is a fast-talking 36-year-old entrepreneur whose company has a loose, sexy atmosphere. As you might guess, some former workers have sued him for sexual harassment. Charney pays his 4,000...
View ArticleSchools Need Competition Now
This week’s back-to-school ads offer amazing bargains on lightweight backpacks and nifty school supplies. All those businesses scramble to offer us good stuff at low prices. It’s amazing what...
View ArticleBusybody Politicians, Get Off Our Backs
If you want to buy or sell foie gras in a Chicago restaurant, you’ll have to break the law. Not that this stops anyone. Restaurants all over Chicago sell the French delicacy—even restaurants that never...
View ArticleSecrets In The Senate
Their arrogance is stunning. Sens. Ted Stevens (R-Alas.) and Robert Byrd (D-W.V.) are the acknowledged kings of pork-barrel spending. They bring billons of taxpayer dollars to their states to ensure...
View ArticleIt’s Hard To Tell A Conservative From A Liberal
In this era of a big-spending Republican administration, the differences between conservatives and liberals have shrunk so much, it’s hard to tell who’s who. Take embryonic stem-cell research....
View ArticleBig Business Loves Government
I keep reading that big business wants government off its back. But that’s a myth. Here’s the truth: “[B]ig business and big government prosper from the perception that they are rivals instead of...
View ArticleHooray For DDT’s Life-Saving Comeback
Who says there’s never any good news? After more than 30 years and tens of millions dead—mostly children—the World Health Organization (WHO) has ended its ban on DDT. DDT is the most effective...
View ArticleMcdonald’s Didn’t Make Them Fat
I have a question for federal Judge Robert Sweet: If your own children blamed McDonald’s for making them fat, would you buy it? I don’t think so. Yet the judge has given the green light to a lawsuit...
View ArticleTrade Restrictions Stick It To Consumers
The Washington Post wants us to think that Anita Dungey won a heroic small-business victory over big business. But all she really did was stick it to American consumers and punish workers in some poor...
View ArticleGetting Medical Insurance From Your Boss Is A Bad Idea
According to the new “ABC News” poll on health care, Americans are eager to have the government force employers to provide heath insurance: “Nearly eight in 10 favor a federal requirement that all...
View ArticleBirdwatching, Government Style
Here’s a job that’s really for the birds: staring at dead chickens. The job is tedious, done in unpleasant places, and largely useless. But you and I pay thousands of people to do it. A federal website...
View ArticleProperty Theft In America
Do you live in a blighted home in a blighted neighborhood? You might without even knowing it. But don’t worry, your local politicians will be happy to tell you—as soon as some land developer decides...
View ArticleWhite Guilt Doesn’t Help Blacks
Complaints about racism dominate the media discussion of the disparity between black and white success in America. Comedian Chris Rock captures the prevailing sentiment between both races when he tells...
View ArticleWorking Mothers Need The Free Market, Too
Last week, my “20/20” co-anchor, Elizabeth Vargas, returned from maternity leave. Her first story was on the “mommy wars.” “Why,” Elizabeth asked, “has so little been done on issues like paid maternity...
View ArticleAre Americans Cheap?
The New York Times and Washington Post editorialize about America’s “stinginess.” Former President Jimmy Carter says when it comes to helping others, “The rich states don’t give a damn.” Standing...
View ArticleCNN Apes CBC: Bias is Over The Top
You’d be forgiven for thinking you were watching the CBC. But no, it’s CNN. And this is ostensibly not a CNN opinion piece: This is how CNN introduced their “news report” about Trump achieving the...
View ArticleLiberals now desire a spread of China’s people to Canada’s small towns; don’t...
The headline from the Liberals’ Globe & Mail division reads, “Canada aims to spread Chinese immigrants across country: McCallum.” Liberals and leftists — especially in the media — are usually so...
View ArticleBRILLIANT take-down of CNN, a CNN reporter, a CNN anchor, and its hideously...
I’ll get to the point in a second. But first (and I promise this is related), I read my usual National Review articles this morning and copied this nugget: Conservatism must be about explaining to...
View Article“Lexus Liberals” – a funny by Conservatives… and then even funnier: the...
A Conservative Party with a sense of humor. In today’s email: ** CORRECTION ** Dear Joel, Last week we told you about the Liberals getting up to their same old tricks. The Liberal Health Minister was...
View ArticleAnn Coulter with new book just in time: IN TRUMP WE TRUST
Although I no longer have her, Ann Coulter was the first columnist I ever paid at this site. And the longest standing columnist too. And all thanks to me (yeah right), she’s now one of the best-selling...
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